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- Gambling Regulation Bill 2022: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (1 May 2024)
Danny Healy-Rae: It is very unfair of the Minister of State to point the finger at the Independents. I raised it with him here last week, and we know what happens with the amendments and all the different issues with them. When we put in submissions or amendments, the Government invariably rules them out, one after the other. That is what happens. How could you put down an amendment to this anyway?...
- Gambling Regulation Bill 2022: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (1 May 2024)
Catherine Connolly: I thank the Deputy. Personal comments are not appropriate.
- Gambling Regulation Bill 2022: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (1 May 2024)
Danny Healy-Rae: I have nothing at all to apologise for. They have gone far enough. They are away with the fairies, the whole bloody lot of them. Everything they are at they are making a hames of it.
- Gambling Regulation Bill 2022: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (1 May 2024)
Catherine Connolly: I ask the Deputy to do me the courtesy of listening to me. It is not appropriate to make personal comments. It does not help the debate and it does not strengthen the argument.
- Gambling Regulation Bill 2022: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (1 May 2024)
Danny Healy-Rae: We are-----
- Gambling Regulation Bill 2022: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (1 May 2024)
Catherine Connolly: I am moving on to Deputy Verona Murphy.
- Gambling Regulation Bill 2022: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (1 May 2024)
Verona Murphy: When this Bill was raised initially, I supported it to get it across the line so we could find out exactly what it entailed. I come from a huge sporting county, of all sports and none, especially horses, dogs and sporting clubs. At the moment, the Government is making announcements about all and sundry that it can get out before the election with regard to grants that are going to be...
- Gambling Regulation Bill 2022: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (1 May 2024)
Mattie McGrath: Shame.
- Gambling Regulation Bill 2022: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (1 May 2024)
Verona Murphy: For that reason, I do not think I need to say any more but I will not be supporting this Bill further.
- Gambling Regulation Bill 2022: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (1 May 2024)
Catherine Connolly: Is the Deputy forsaking her second contribution?
- Gambling Regulation Bill 2022: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (1 May 2024)
Verona Murphy: Yes. I thank the Leas Cheann-Comhairle.
- Gambling Regulation Bill 2022: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (1 May 2024)
Catherine Connolly: I thank the Deputy. We will let the Minister of State conclude. As the proposer, he has two minutes.
- Gambling Regulation Bill 2022: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (1 May 2024)
James Browne: I thank the Leas Cheann-Comhairle. I think the particular amendment we are discussing has long been forgotten about at this point, but anyway.
- Gambling Regulation Bill 2022: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (1 May 2024)
Catherine Connolly: The Minister of State might remind us.
- Gambling Regulation Bill 2022: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (1 May 2024)
James Browne: I am going to address this and make the point for a third time. The recommendation for a complete ban on gambling advertising during the watershed was the unanimous recommendation of the justice committee. Charities and sporting organisations have been governed by gambling legislation, when they are carrying out gambling activities such as lotteries and draws, for the past 70 years. Nearly...
- Gambling Regulation Bill 2022: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (1 May 2024)
Mattie McGrath: What about the political parties?
- Gambling Regulation Bill 2022: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (1 May 2024)
James Browne: They are governed under different legislation, as the Deputy knows full well. We will be bringing amendments in the Seanad to exempt charities and sporting organisations, and I again thank Sinn Féin, the Labour Party, Deputy Catherine Murphy and the Social Democrats, and the Fine Gael and Fianna Fáil TDs who have all brought forward ideas on this and how it can be done. I also...
- Gambling Regulation Bill 2022: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (1 May 2024)
Catherine Connolly: We have allowed a good discussion on it and a lot of flexibility.
- Gambling Regulation Bill 2022: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (1 May 2024)
Matt Shanahan: This issue was brought up with the Minister of State during a previous debate the other night in this Chamber. I was quite surprised how strident he was in sticking to his guns. I echo what my colleagues have said today. I made a point to the Minister of State the other day regarding the kinds of voluntary organisations that are involved in raising money. I specifically pointed out to him...
- Gambling Regulation Bill 2022: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (1 May 2024)
James Browne: With regard to the comment that no one requested it, it was requested unanimously by the Joint Committee on Justice that a ban on advertising be brought in with no exceptions. I listened to the members from the justice committee who have addressed it here in the Dáil. I have listened to TDs outside of the justice committee who have addressed it in this Chamber. I have listened to...