Joseph McCall started gambling when he was 14 - he says tighter regulations need to be introduced in Northern Ireland.
Tighter regulations around gambling need to be introduced in Northern Ireland, a recovering addict has said.He spoke about his experience after NI gambling charities wrote to delegates at a gaming conference being held at the Culloden Hotel in County Down.
"There are simply no rules here governing online gambling, while those that relate to the highly addictive electronic gaming machines are out-dated and are neither properly adhered to nor enforced," the letter stated. "I can go and do a £10,000 bet, that could be my yearly salary and what do you live on the rest of your life? What do you live on the rest of the year?" he said.
Director of Clean Up Gambling, Matt Zarb-Cousin, is a panellist at the IAGA summit and said he was invited to "help delegates understand that the consequences of gambling extend beyond monetary losses".Gambling laws 'could have saved our son's life'"That level of consumer protection isn't there, so gambling operators have moved into this space, into this jurisdiction, and capitalised on that," he said.
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