Gambling law still on hold after five years

Five years after the Government said it was to “immediately” start modernising the country’s 50-year-old gambling laws, legislation has still not been implemented.

Fianna Fáil has demanded action to push through the parts of the Gambling Control Bill which would apply age restrictions and control the marketing of the industry.

In July, 2013, then Justice Minister Alan Shatter published the heads of the Gambling Control Bill, two years after government had said it would immediately modernise the sector.