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Debate: Seanad Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/seanad/1986-07-08/13/
8 Jul 1986 - , eliminating this lottery from all the wisdom of our community about how to regulate gaming and lotteries. We... of Gaming and Lotteries Acts were passed between 1956 and 1979 — although I think the effective Act... it was recognised that the whole area of lotteries and gaming is part of the area of gambling... as follows: "33. No notice or announcement concerning the National Lottery (other than normal news... the most devastating two lines in the entire Bill. We are, with one swoop in a line and a half
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Debate: Seanad Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/seanad/1986-07-03/4/
3 Jul 1986 - lottery. The Bill is entitled: An Act to provide for the holding by or on behalf of the Minister... for Finance of a National Lottery, to amend the Gaming and Lotteries Acts, 1956 to 1979, and to provide... that the kind of people Senator Brendan Ryan referred to like to have their game of bingo or their bet... as a Bill whereby the proceeds of the lottery would go to the general purposes as the Government may... speech national lotteries all over the world have been successful. He has mentioned that in European
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Debate: Dáil Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/2019-12-04/46/
4 Dec 2019 - competition from offshore companies that allow people to bet on lotteries. Those companies are competing... with our national lottery, which is a major contributor to good causes. If one goes online, one can see... how the stakes from the national lottery are distributed to good causes around the country under... the good causes fund. The national lottery is a lottery, as we understand it, on a large national scale.... At the moment, it is facing withering competition from offshore companies that allow people to bet
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Debate: Dáil Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/1986-07-02/47/
2 Jul 1986 - and with it we will encourage the population to spend more money on lottery tickets and get involved in a game at which they cannot win. ... will set out on a massive advertising and marketing campaign. This will encourage people to buy lottery... tickets at every opportunity because if you are not in, you cannot win. They will use every device... man, woman and child to become involved in this great new national pastime of lotteries. We are going
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Debate: Select Committee On Justice And Equality
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/select_committee_on_justice_and_equality/2019-07-10/2/
10 Jul 2019 - there is a central fund established in legislation. The national lottery is established under.... As a result of what Deputy Sherlock stated about people betting on a couple of numbers, I am conscious.... I do not know whether I will necessarily win the argument in any event. The Government should... statistics indicating the lottery is doing very well but we know from other jurisdictions that a lottery... the national lottery. The harm will have been done. The Minister of State should give greater recognition to the need to protect the Central Fund.
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Debate: Dáil Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/1955-05-25/34/
25 May 1955 - is altogether too drastic as far as the question of gaming is concerned. I want to deal now with lotteries. We... the gaming—very much as regards the gaming—and also the lotteries. Those people who go in for gaming..., we have operating in all our streets licensed betting offices into which people can go and pay not 3d.... or 6d. at the very outside, as they pay for a game of Pongo, but much more than that and they can... are permitting the operation of these betting offices by legislation and, at the same time, we
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Debate: Joint Committee On Finance, Public Expenditure And Reform
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/joint_committee_on_finance_public_expenditure_and_reform/2011-12-14/3/
14 Dec 2011 - limits on the people the National Lottery Company has registered for online games? How many people... are there? What are the limits on the amounts people can bet in a month with the national lottery... others. Those who are probably not averse to betting would be more nervous about online gambling... concern is that if one is in a competition, whoever wins it, one will be looking at international... compared with its counterparts in other EU countries or lotteries around the world? Mr. Connell has
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Debate: Dáil Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/2009-05-27/64/
27 May 2009 - breaches of the Gaming and Lotteries Act 1956 as amended, or indeed of the Betting Act 1931 which... Odds Betting Terminals in betting offices was outlined by a former Minister for Justice. Equality... Reform stated on the Order of Business that the placement of these machines in betting offices would... not be lawful under current legislation, and that if placed in a betting office they would be liable... to this House my antipathy to Fixed Odds Betting Terminals on a number of occasions and I can assure
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Debate: Dáil Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/1986-06-25/4/
25 Jun 1986 - on how it should be spent and forget about the consequences of the introduction of the lottery. The Bill... in the lottery with phrases like "If you're not in, you can't win", "Look at John Murphy, he... has a reasonable chance of winning? The experience of other countries shows that lotteries... blame them. Winning the lottery is the only hope they have of ever winning anything. For many... with various lotteries and 12 other games that hold out the elusive dream of instant wealth. In case
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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: Seanad Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/seanad/2018-09-27/4/
27 Sep 2018 - in Ireland, a licence is required under the Betting Acts 1931 to 2015 or the Gaming and Lotteries Act.... Third, where a game offers the possibility of placing a bet or taking risk for financial reward... and online video games has received significant media attention in recent days. There are three... from the Gaming Regulators European Forum, GREF, on the undesirability of games, particularly those... national authorities that online gaming products should be appropriately licensed if they offer
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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/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/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: Dáil Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/2019-12-04/46/
4 Dec 2019 - to play the game with the intention of winning a few bob if they can, and that is what we need to support... confusion about this Bill. The Minister of State might clarify that. People are genuinely going out.... I ask the Minister of State to provide clarity on that, especially on the local lottery. Local
