Aodhán Ó Ríordáin (Dublin Bay North, Labour) | Oireachtas source

I move amendment No. 15:

In page 23, line 22, after "1956" to insert, "other than section 36".

I am used to clearing rooms when I start talking. The practice in this country for hundreds of years has been that gambling debts are not enforceable in a court of law. This means that a bookie cannot force a person to pay a gambling debt, nor can a person force a bookie to pay out on a bet. It acknowledges that gambling is not just a normal financial transaction. The Government has supplied absolutely no reason to change this. There is absolutely no evidence in favour of it. We believe this is the financialisation and normalisation of gambling. That is why we have tabled amendments Nos. 15 and 16.

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