Does my noble friend not also remember that at that Irish race meeting, when the Irish Minister for Racing—the late, great Joe Walsh—put his bets on, the bookmakers did not even give him a ticket, unlike my noble friend or me? When I asked the bookmaker later why he did not give Joe Walsh a ticket, he said, “You do not give an Irish Minister for Racing a betting ticket”. Does he not think it would be a great advance in this country if British politicians and Ministers were treated with the same respect at our racecourses?
Gaming Machine (Circumstances of Use) (Amendment) Regulations 2015
Proceeding contribution from
Lord Donoughue
(Labour)
in the House of Lords on Monday, 23 March 2015.
It occurred during Debates on delegated legislation on Gaming Machine (Circumstances of Use) (Amendment) Regulations 2015.
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