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Debate: Seanad Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/seanad/2018-09-27/4/
27 Sep 2018 - in this regard. Third, where a game offers the possibility of placing a bet or taking risk for financial... products in Ireland, a licence is required under the Betting Acts 1931 to 2015 or the Gaming... of loot boxes and online video games has received significant media attention in recent days... in the declaration from the Gaming Regulators European Forum, GREF, on the undesirability of games... concern among national authorities that online gaming products should be appropriately licensed
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Debate: Dáil Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/2013-02-05/23/
5 Feb 2013 - by lecturers in University College, Cork, have suggested that the national lottery is socially... amount of benefit as expended on lottery tickets. The good causes which the lottery finances do... not adequately compensate for the cost or expense of buying lottery tickets in working class areas... and poorer sections of the community. We should consider this study as the lottery is now established... the issue of where the money that is generated is being targeted. Although many people play the game
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Debate: Dáil Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/2016-12-16/16/
16 Dec 2016 - issue. The Bill will repeal extant betting and gaming legislation on its enactment and cover both... under the term "gambling" to deal with online and terrestrial versions. The Bill will also license... and regulate casinos, lotteries, bingo, amusements and the tote. There are two fundamental concepts
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Debate: Dáil Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/1986-07-01/26/
1 Jul 1986 - money. Going by the previous provisions in the 1956 Gaming and Lotteries Act and the general run... was announced in the national plan and it has been agreed to amend section 34 of the 1956 Gaming and Lotteries... in order to get around the provisions of the Gaming and Lotteries Act. All political parties... Mr. Yates I am very relieved that Fianna Fáil are not neutral on this Bill. I would be very... the few points I wish to make on this Bill. First, I welcome the Bill. It meets a number of criteria
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Debate: Dáil Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/1958-02-26/71/
26 Feb 1958 - this House on another Bill, to be holding up this one. On the Gaming and Lottery Act we had Deputy... of credit betting. If Deputy Burke gives me £1 and I wish to put on £1 myself I give Deputy Burke credit... there will be a condition, so far as I can see, prohibiting credit betting in any form whatsoever. The whole point... is, if the Deputy will appreciate it, that cash passes between the person who makes the bet... hand, the Minister for Agriculture saying that he could see no real harm in credit betting
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Debate: Dáil Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/1975-12-16/28/
16 Dec 1975 - betting (including pool betting) or from any lottery, sweepstake or game with prizes; (d) any... bettings, lotteries, and so on, certain payments in bankruptcy matters and certain normal and reasonable payments within the family. ... in the death of any other person; (c) the receipt by a person of any sum bona fide by way of winnings from..., various additional exemptions are dealt with in the proposed new section, namely, winnings from
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Debate: Dáil Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/1998-11-26/9/
26 Nov 1998 - Mr. M. Brennan I welcome the Bill and thank the Minister, Deputy McDaid, for introducing... programme. Those projects were funded by the Department or by national lottery funding and are of great..., who won the under 18 world cycling championship. That win was a great credit to him... from the national lottery or the sports council. Many small Gaelic football clubs and soccer clubs... football club that submits an application for lottery funding for sports facilities should be funded
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Debate: Dáil Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/2013-02-06/23/
6 Feb 2013 - for the market to grow. It has been stated that half the adult population has played a lottery game... lottery is something all Irish people will agree has been very good to Ireland since its introduction... a number of years ago. The games have remained popular over the years and have brought a substantial... many worthwhile projects. In the 25 years since the establishment of the national lottery in 1986... lottery funding. For instance, the Glór Theatre, Ennis, is a perfect example of the contribution
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Debate: Dáil Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/1955-11-02/22/
2 Nov 1955 - individual who walks into a pongo school and lays a bet of 6d. and then is told by the proprietor that by law 10/- is all that he can win. ... and their children because of this terrible game of pongo. That, I understand, is one of the reasons why... this particular section has been introduced to this Bill—to prevent people from spending all... their wages on a game of pongo. Yet we have bookmakers' offices scattered all over the country and only... themselves by limiting the amount of money they can make in a bet. I am not objecting to placing a limit
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Debate: Dáil Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/2014-07-17/19/
17 Jul 2014 - the Bill is welcome, it is only a drop in the ocean. We need to go further than this. The betting duty... is called the Betting (Amendment) Bill, but it only places a tax on the sports books of the bookies... to the Houses of the Oireachtas a report on his or her future plans for betting duty and the funding..., the betting duty should be placed on the customer and not the operator. High street bookies are closing... down because they cannot afford their overheads or betting duty of 1%. I have spoken to independent
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Debate: Joint Committee On Finance And The Public Service
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/joint_committee_on_finance_and_the_public_service/2005-06-22/3/
22 Jun 2005 - telephone lottery games. I stand open to correction but I understood that previous telephone games run... mobile telephone lottery games or playing them on the Internet. The lotto is essentially gambling... Deputy Burton I congratulate the National Lottery Company on another successful year. Several... of my questions relate to the relationship between the National Lottery and An Post. What happens... to the cash generated by the national lottery? I understand that the company does not hold cash. Who
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Debate: Seanad Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/seanad/2005-03-02/13/
2 Mar 2005 - is a result of an analysis by an interdepartmental group of the gaming and lotteries legislation... Cummins for introducing this Bill. While we may disagree with it on this side of the House, I admire... the strength of his feeling on the issue and acknowledge his right to introduce the Bill.... There is an anomaly in the 1929 Act which states that a child under 18 years of age may bet on the tote... at a racetrack but not on or off course in a bookmaker's shop, and many not buy a lottery ticket. Whether
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Debate: Dáil Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/1958-02-26/71/
26 Feb 1958 - within the scope of the Gaming and Lotteries Act, but I do not want to go into that. It would... by the Minister for Finance who will attach to that licence a prohibition on credit betting... in due course, and walking up to the totalisator and laying a bet of £2. That, of course, is a private... bets with the totalisator. The first thing I would assume a Minister for Finance would do... to ensure that there would be no credit betting with the tote at all would be to prohibit, or prevent, any
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Debate: Dáil Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/1997-10-09/7/
9 Oct 1997 - of betting offices and gaming and lotteries. One must be 18 years or more to enter a betting office whereas... betting but particularly to the establishment of the national lottery. Further change... the national lottery would be to introduce a ceiling on winnings. Every time the lottery exceeds £2... million on lottery winnings. In that context foreign lotteries would not be as attractive here... Mr. Power I wish to refer to the lottery in the context of gambling. The Irish gambling market
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Debate: Dáil Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/1955-05-25/34/
25 May 1955 - of chance or lotteries, is not bad in itself but that excessive gaming brings excessive evil in its... of curbing these people is a little Gaming Bill like this, that we will prevent them operating slot... in connection with the running of Pongo or slot-machines. It is suggested that gaming and lotteries.... There will be a limitation on running expenses for lotteries under this Bill. Yet, in Section 49, we are specifically... excluding one lottery from the terms of the Bill. To make it still more glaring, the Hospitals' Sweep
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Debate: Dáil Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/2006-05-10/21/
10 May 2006 - already contains some provisions for the amendment of the Gaming and Lotteries Act. Those provisions... made its decision on the question in the shape of the Gaming and Lotteries Acts. Oireachtas policy... is not averse to having a flutter. We have many ways, ranging from the national lottery, through betting... of poker among friends, are popular pastimes. The Gaming and Lotteries Acts define what unlawful gaming... of consideration of the gaming and lotteries legislation, which will be part of the Civil Law (Miscellaneous
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Debate: Seanad Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/seanad/2005-03-02/13/
2 Mar 2005 - in the 2000 report, Review of the Gaming and Lotteries Acts 1956-86, that no age limit applies... to betting on the tote at racecourses or greyhound tracks. However the report's authors acknowledged
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Debate: Dáil Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/1945-03-09/6/
9 Mar 1945 - on this Bill, and I have come to one conclusion: not to bet. Racing, we are told, is the sport of kings... on a previous Bill in this House, and we have accepted betting as a necessary evil but one which... that under this Bill we should make sure that the small owner would have a fair chance of winning a stake. ... Mr. Coogan I rise to support this Bill on the general principle at which it aims, namely... to “the royal game of goose.” I once looked that up, and I found that there were 12 rules to the game
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Debate: Dáil Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/2018-05-09/26/
9 May 2018 - . They will now be contained in a separate Gaming and Lotteries (Amendment) Bill. This is currently under... gambling legislation. It was intended to replace all current gaming and betting legislation... Gaming and Lotteries Act 1956 in a number of areas. These proposals were agreed by the Government on 11... and Lotteries (Amendment) Bill during the autumns session of the Dáil. It will include setting the minimum age... of minor gaming and lotteries; and raising the current, unrealistic monetary limits on stakes
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Debate: Dáil Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/2018-05-09/30/
9 May 2018 - . They will now be contained in a separate Gaming and Lotteries (Amendment) Bill. This is currently under... gambling legislation. It was intended to replace all current gaming and betting legislation... Gaming and Lotteries Act 1956 in a number of areas. These proposals were agreed by the Government on 11... and Lotteries (Amendment) Bill during the autumns session of the Dáil. It will include setting the minimum... of minor gaming and lotteries; and raising the current, unrealistic monetary limits on stakes
