Gambling Regulation Bill 2022: Report Stage
Dail Éireann — 2024-04-24
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Pearse Doherty (SF), Donegal

From the Minister of State's contribution, he clearly does not want to try to reach agreement on how to fix this. I thought I was being fair enough with my comments because I think we can fix this, and I said I did not believe it was his intention, but maybe I have a different view of it now. I have told him there are companies driving a coach and horses through this already. I know schools are included; it is called the "gaming definition". How has the Government defined "gaming"? It is defined, on page 17, as "where a participant in the game may, having made a payment, win a prize of money".
Does the Minister of State want me to list 20 companies, which I could do now, raffling houses in Ibiza and similar places and cars worth €100,000 that are operating in this jurisdiction because they offer a free entry? The Government's definition, therefore, does not capture them. People do not take the free-entry route, but because of that the companies are able to operate, and the Minister of State did not respond to that point. Is it his case that every GAA club that is raffling a car should never be able to do it ever again?

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Sitting date: 2024-04-24