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Gambling Regulation Bill 2022: Report Stage (24 Apr 2024)

James Browne: With regard to the discussions, as someone who practised as a barrister for 13 years, I know it can often depend on the individual judge. Most have no interest in it but some do and, on occasion, they have looked to it. The amendment is to ensure that what we might call brand advertising without a call to action is included. It is something that came up in a number of discussions. If...

Gambling Regulation Bill 2022: Report Stage (24 Apr 2024)

Pa Daly: The Minister of State said there is no call arising out of the display of the betting company’s name. If there was, for example, a Paddy Power comedy festival, as there was last year, would that be governed by this, would it be included or would it fall foul of the difficulties here?

Gambling Regulation Bill 2022: Report Stage (24 Apr 2024)

Catherine Connolly: Deputy Doherty can come in again before the Minister of State responds.

Gambling Regulation Bill 2022: Report Stage (24 Apr 2024)

Pearse Doherty: We need clarity in this regard. We will discuss social media advertising later. The section refers to advertisement and targeted advertisement. Will the Minister of State clarify, using the definition that he has now used for “advertise”, which was dealt with on amendment No. 1, whether a post that is not sponsored paid advertisement will be deemed as advertisement? The...

Gambling Regulation Bill 2022: Report Stage (24 Apr 2024)

Thomas Gould: I have listened to Deputy Doherty’s point of view. We have a guy in our club, Vincent Ahern, who goes around and runs all the draws. He is a brilliant bit of stuff. He is going around bars and shops on Blarney Street on the north side of Cork city, putting up posters to advertise all of the different fundraising that the club will be running during the year. If we get to a...

Gambling Regulation Bill 2022: Report Stage (24 Apr 2024)

James Browne: With regard to a commercial gambling company putting a brand ad up where there is not a call to action and it is not calling it a bet, but it is posting it, for example, from its own Paddy Power Facebook page, yes, that is advertising, although I should not name particular commercial organisations. It is pushing its brand and it will be considered advertising. What we are doing here is...

Gambling Regulation Bill 2022: Report Stage (24 Apr 2024)

Thomas Gould: I agree with Deputy Daly. The one advantage we have with this Bill is that we are able to look at the legislation that is in place globally, see what has and has not worked and cherry-pick to ensure our Bill is the best legislation possible. The industry is providing funding to certain groups to provide education, counselling or a website where people can go if they think they are at risk...

Gambling Regulation Bill 2022: Report Stage (24 Apr 2024)

James Browne: I agree with the Deputy that there is a lack of supports for people facing gambling addiction and non-substance addictions in general. They were not taken seriously for a long time. One of the key reasons for putting the social impact fund into this legislation is to make the industry pay for much of the damage it is causing. Section 52 provides that the social impact fund shall be...

Gambling Regulation Bill 2022: Report Stage (24 Apr 2024)

Amendment put and declared lost.

Gambling Regulation Bill 2022: Report Stage (24 Apr 2024)

Catherine Connolly: Amendments Nos. 27, 29, 30 and 34 are related and will be discussed together.

Gambling Regulation Bill 2022: Report Stage (24 Apr 2024)

James Browne: I move amendment No. 27: In page 55, line 6, to delete “Subject to sections 66 and 67” and substitute “Subject to section 66”. Amendments Nos. 27, 29, 30 and 34 are technical amendments. The first three are necessary due to the deletion of section 67 and to correct and update any renumbered section references as a result. Regarding amendment No. 34, as I...

Gambling Regulation Bill 2022: Report Stage (24 Apr 2024)

Pearse Doherty: The first number of these amendments are just technical because the Minister of State is deleting section 67. Amendment No. 34 is more substantive because it gets rid of section 67, on persons advertising relevant gambling activity, in its entirety. The section is being replaced by other sections through a number of amendments. The amendments are a great improvement on what we have now,...

Gambling Regulation Bill 2022: Report Stage (24 Apr 2024)

James Browne: Section 64 of the Bill provides for an amendment to the Freedom of Information Act 2014. The intention of the amendment in this Bill is that the members of the authority, staff of the authority, authorised officers of the authority, and the appeals panels, the appeals board, appeals officers and adjudication officers will be subject to the obligations of the Freedom of Information Act...

Gambling Regulation Bill 2022: Report Stage (24 Apr 2024)

Thomas Gould: The Minister of State referred to the exemption for An Garda Síochána. I do not know how we can correlate an exemption for An Garda Síochána, which is for very sensitive information, and an exemption for a gambling authority. To be honest that does not sit with me. The Minister of State spoke about the systems being set up already to ensure transparency. In another...

Gambling Regulation Bill 2022: Report Stage (24 Apr 2024)

James Browne: I will make a couple of quick points on that, including on An Garda Síochána and the comparators around the investigative and prosecutorial roles. This is why those parts are being exempt. This authority would have investigatory and prosecutorial roles. The rate of the levy will be public knowledge and it will be based on turnover. The information that is sensitive is the...

Gambling Regulation Bill 2022: Report Stage (24 Apr 2024)

Pearse Doherty: We will come to the levy in Deputy Gould's next amendment but I have not heard a convincing argument as to why they do not come under freedom of information. We know that a lot of freedom information requests do not work anyway. We wait months to get to get answers and on many occasions we get an answer back that it is considered commercially sensitive or so on. A lot of this would not be...

Gambling Regulation Bill 2022: Report Stage (24 Apr 2024)

Catherine Connolly: The Minister of State has finished his contribution but by way of exception I can let him comment on what the Deputies have said. Does the Minister of State wish to make a brief comment?

Gambling Regulation Bill 2022: Report Stage (24 Apr 2024)

James Browne: No.

Gambling Regulation Bill 2022: Report Stage (24 Apr 2024)

Catherine Connolly: Does Deputy Gould wish to come back in as the proposer?

Gambling Regulation Bill 2022: Report Stage (24 Apr 2024)

Thomas Gould: I believe we should bring in the amendment and I will press it but I will not call a vote.