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Ireland’s watchdogs to split oversight of gambling advertisements under new regulatory regime

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Ireland’s watchdogs to split oversight of gambling advertisements under new regulatory regime

  • Barry O’Halloran, The Irish Times

Regulators are looking to split responsibility for gambling ad complaints as the State prepares a new regime to oversee betting in the Republic.

A law passed shortly before the last Oireachtas was dissolved created the new Gambling Regulatory Authority of Ireland, which is likely to begin work midway through next year.

The Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) said on Tuesday that it had agreed a system to streamline complaints about gambling ads with the new regulator.

The Gambling Regulation Act 2024 bars betting businesses from advertising on television between 5.30am and 9pm every day, along with other restrictions. According to Orla Twomey, chief executive of the ASA, the gambling regulator will deal with complaints alleging breaches of the TV watershed and other obligations imposed by the new law.

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