Thomas Gould (Cork North Central, Sinn Fein)
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147. To ask the Minister for Health when the 2018-2019 gambling prevalence survey will be published [40560/20]

Frank Feighan (Sligo-Leitrim, Fine Gael)
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The national survey on drug and alcohol use is a general population survey of households in Ireland conducted by the Health Research Board (HRB) to estimate the number of people in Ireland who use drugs and alcohol.

The survey conforms to best practice and standards established by the European Monitoring Centre for Drugs and Drug Addiction (EMCDDA). The first survey was conducted in 2002/03, and had been repeated in 2005/6, 2006/7, 2010/11, 2014/15. In the 2014/15 Survey a new section focusing on gambling prevalence was included.

Interviewing for the 2018/19 survey, which included the gambling modules, ended in May 2020. The HRB are analysing these data now and it is anticipated that the results of the survey which relate to gambling will be published in mid-2021.