What your Longford-Westmeath TDs did this week

Mon, 22 Apr – 28 Apr 2024 · 5 TDs · 1 bill voted on · 56 questions · 1 new lobbying filings

Votes this week

Gambling Regulation Bill 2022
2024-04-24 · 3 votes · Govt (Justice)
A bill to provide for the establishment of a body to be known as Údarás Rialála&nbsp
full description
A bill to provide for the establishment of a body to be known as Údarás Rialála Cearrbhachais na hÉireann or, in the English language, the Gambling Regulatory Authority of Ireland for the purposes of licensing and regulating betting, gaming, certain lotteries and the sale or supply of products or services related to gambling; to provide for the funding of that Authority by means of imposition of a charge on licensees; to provide for the establishment and maintenance of a register of persons who hold gambling licences in the State and a National Gambling Exclusion Register; to provide for the establishment of a Social Impact Fund to, among other matters, finance research into, raise awareness of, and eliminate or reduce, compulsive and excessive gambling; to provide for contributions to the Fund by certain licensees; to provide for the imposition of obligations on those licensees including obligations relating to advertising, promotion and sponsorship for the purposes of safeguarding persons participating in gambling; to provide for the prohibition of children participating in gambling or being employed in the gambling industry; to provide, for the purposes of ensuring conditions attached to gambling licences and obligations imposed on licensees are complied with, for compliance and enforcement measures; and for those and other purposes to repeal the Totalisator Act 1929, the Betting Act 1931, the Gaming and Lotteries Act 1956, to revoke certain statutory instruments and to provide for the consequential amendment of certain other enactments; and to provide for related matters.
An amendment to the bill · motion failed 55–69
Voted for 1 Sorca Clarke
Voted against 3 Joe Flaherty · Peter Burke · Robert Troy
An amendment to the bill · motion failed 57–68
Voted for 2 Robert Troy · Sorca Clarke
Voted against 2 Joe Flaherty · Peter Burke
An amendment to the bill · motion failed 54–68
Voted for 1 Sorca Clarke
Voted against 3 Joe Flaherty · Peter Burke · Robert Troy
Kevin Boxer Moran — Independent 0 votes · 0 questions · 0 new lobbying returns

Quiet week — no questions filed or new lobbying returns.

Micheál Carrigy — Fine Gael 0 votes · 0 questions · 0 new lobbying returns

Quiet week — no questions filed or new lobbying returns.

Peter Burke — Fine Gael 3 votes · 0 questions · 0 new lobbying returns
Robert Troy — Fianna Fáil 3 votes · 25 questions · 0 new lobbying returns

Questions asked 25 total

Sorca Clarke — Sinn Féin 3 votes · 26 questions · 1 new lobbying return

Questions asked 26 total

New lobbying 1 return