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- 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.
- Gambling Regulation Bill 2022: Report Stage (24 Apr 2024)
Amendment put and declared lost.
- Gambling Regulation Bill 2022: Report Stage (24 Apr 2024)
Pa Daly: I move amendment No. 26: In page 48, between lines 22 and 23, to insert the following: “(4) The contributions to the Social Impact Fund under subsection (3) shall be calculated having regard to - (a) the size of licence holders’ operations, (b) the gambling services and activities being offered by licence holders, (c) the potential harm/risk associated with the...
- Gambling Regulation Bill 2022: Report Stage (24 Apr 2024)
Pearse Doherty: The amendments, as the Minister of State said, are technical and deal with the staffing of the authority. The previous amendments from my colleagues also looked at staffing of the authority. It is a positive part of the legislation that we have an authority that will regulate gambling in the State, which we did not have until now. There will be much responsibility on the staff and those...
- Gambling Regulation Bill 2022: Report Stage (24 Apr 2024)
James Browne: The Deputy is right the regulation authority will be important to ensuring the legislation is enforced, that we have ongoing feedback to the Minister and that we do not have a situation where we pass legislation, it goes out of date quickly and we are all waiting around for it to be changed. Things are changing quite rapidly. I always give the example of the big hullabaloo about 15 years...
- Gambling Regulation Bill 2022: Report Stage (24 Apr 2024)
Amendment agreed to.
- Gambling Regulation Bill 2022: Report Stage (24 Apr 2024)
James Browne: I move amendment No. 22: In page 33, line 37, to delete “The Authority may, with the approval of” and substitute “The Authority may, with the approval of the Minister given with the consent of”.
- Gambling Regulation Bill 2022: Report Stage (24 Apr 2024)
Amendment agreed to.
- Gambling Regulation Bill 2022: Report Stage (24 Apr 2024)
James Browne: I move amendment No. 23: In page 34, lines 1 and 2, to delete “for Public Expenditure, National Development Plan Delivery and Reform”.
- Gambling Regulation Bill 2022: Report Stage (24 Apr 2024)
Amendment agreed to.