Gambling watchdog to be ‘powerful’, says Minister

Labour Senator warns of advertising impact on children as no 9pm broadcast watershed

Labour Senator Mark Wall said Ireland is spending €9.8bn gambling every year, ‘marking us out as the world’s seventh’s biggest spenders on gambling per head’.

Labour Senator Mark Wall said Ireland is spending €9.8bn gambling every year, ‘marking us out as the world’s seventh’s biggest spenders on gambling per head’.

Public health and wellbeing will be the primary focus of the “extremely powerful” gambling regulator who will be appointed by the end of the year, according to Minister of State for Justice James Browne.

Eight years after a Bill to regulate gambling was introduced but never passed the Minister insisted he would introduce comprehensive legislation in September to reform regulation of the industry and said the regulator would be in place by the end of this year.

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