Kathryn Reilly (Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

This is an amendment my colleague, Deputy Pearse Doherty, proposed in the Dáil. It is a straightforward deletion of an outdated and never implemented section of the Act. While it was not accepted on Committee Stage in the Dáil, I am glad that it is now being proposed by the Government. If one told people that they were in breach of the Betting Act every time they placed a bet on a football match, they would be quite surprised. I am grateful that the Government has taken the amendment on board.