Online gambling advertising
Peter Mathews called for urgent legislation to restrict radio and television advertising for online gambling. The Taoiseach cited approved gambling-law amendments pending the establishment of a regulator.
Point taken.
The regulation of gambling Bill is due in the next session, in 2015 - the Taoiseach has answered that. In the meantime there is an acute need to eliminate radio and television advertising of online gambling and so on. It is a very acute problem.
Comment on this
Could the Government introduce a short snappy piece of legislation to deal with that?
Comment on this
The Government approved three amendments to the gambling Bill this morning for the Minister for Finance, where the Revenue Commissioners are involved in terms of licences to deal with online and remote operations for gambling-----