Lynn Ruane (Independent) | Oireachtas source

I raise the point of gaming and in-app purchases. Obviously, I am speaking from a place of not fully understanding where app development can go but surely the Internet can be used to download a particular app, after which the app is on a person's phone or PlayStation. Sometimes apps can be potentially accessed, and that is a secondary point as some apps can be accessed without any Internet. The app itself needs the Internet but anything within that going forward may not need the Internet. We need to be able to future-proof against the ever-evolving industry in terms of apps and machine learning. We could say the same of telephones. I know some landlines are left in the country but most people are probably gambling on the Internet through their telephones. It would be very simple to add an explicit reference to gaming devices. There is no harm in adding it and it would future-proof us against the fact that the Internet is not needed to access some apps. The Internet may be needed to download the app initially, but the Internet will not always be needed to actually use particular functions within particular apps on gaming devices.