Frances Black (Independent) | Oireachtas source

I will keep it short. This section sets out the terms of operation of the national gambling exclusion register. It is a really welcome provision in the legislation and our primary concern about the operation of the register is that it places essentially all of the obligation on a participant to keep themselves safe from harm. This suite of amendments tries to address this imbalance and place certain obligations on licensees to safeguard participants who are at risk of harm. Amendment No. 79 inserts a new provision that would allow the gambling authority to cause licensees to delete data profiles of participants who wish to have their data erased. As we have highlighted on a number of occasions throughout the debate, gambling companies nowadays gather, store and analyse vast tracts of data to personalise the services they offer with the intention of incentivising time and money spent with their services. While in many cases participants knowingly or unknowingly agree to their data being used in this way, it is absolutely imperative that there is a way for this data to be permanently deleted. This is especially true in circumstances where a person is seeking to be included on the exclusion register, trying to put some space between themselves and his or her gambling habit for whatever reason. We need to do everything in our power to try to lift people out of addiction and support those in recovery. If gambling companies are in a position where they can hold onto a person's data and manipulate it to try to entice him or her to return to previous gambling patterns, it would completely undermine the success of the exclusion register.

I made a mistake and should also have spoken to amendments No. 81, 89 and 95. I will be as brief as I possibly can. Would it be possible?