Aidan Davitt (Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

I raise the issue of the scourge of online gambling addiction. People in Ireland spend over €5 billion a year on gambling.This figure is not verified but that is the minimum figure the experts quote.

Heretofore gambling problems were noticed by friends, other users of bookmakers or even bookmakers or cashiers living in their communities but this model no longer exists. We are facing an online gambling problem of epidemic proportions. It is estimated, through research in other countries because there is not much here, that 10% of all gamblers have full-blown gambling addictions.