Mark Wall (Labour) | Oireachtas source

I support the amendment of Senators Gavan and Warfield, in particular on there being at least one member on the board with lived experience of harmful gambling behaviours. The Minister and I have long discussed lived experience in this context and I have spoken at length in this House about the lived experience of people who have gone through gambling addiction. That experience has got to form part of any board when we are talking about gambling harm reduction into the future. Sinn Féin has brought forward an apt amendment in this regard. As I have given in example after example, it is only when one or one's family member is forced into a gambling addiction by whatever means, that one knows what is going on. That understanding is so important to bring into any board in the future.