Written answers

Wednesday, 6 March 2019

Department of Justice and Equality

Gambling Legislation

Photo of Tommy BroughanTommy Broughan (Dublin Bay North, Independent)
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131. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the way in which and when he plans to update the Gaming and Lotteries Act 1956. [11005/19]

Photo of David StantonDavid Stanton (Cork East, Fine Gael)
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I am happy to update the Deputy on my plans to update the Gaming and Lotteries Act 1956.

I hope to publish the Gaming and Lotteries (Amendment) Bill, early in the current Oireachtas session. This will be an interim reform measure, pending the bringing forward of comprehensive gambling control legislation. 

The amendments proposed under the  Bill address certain deficiencies with regard to the conduct of activities regulated under the Gaming and Lotteries Act 1956, and provide for the modernisation of that Act by way of, among other matters, arrangements for the better promotion of lotteries, updating certain stake and prize limits and standardising the minimum gambling age at 18.

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