The Minister of State at the Department of Justice, James Browne, is due to bring forward a new regulatory framework for gambling this autumn. Since previous minister for justice Alan Shatters Gambling Control Bill was drafted in 2013, each year brought more disappointment that successive governments failed to enact new legislation. Shatters legislation represented an excellent starting point for gambling harm minimisation and player protection but every year we were left wondering why it was apparently so difficult to implement.
Political inertia in modernising gambling laws is not unique to Ireland. The then UK sports minister, Tracey Crouch, handed her resignation to prime minister Theresa May in 2017 over a lack of progress in gambl…
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