The Betting and Gaming Council’s chief executive, Grainne Hurst, appeared before Westminster’s Treasury Select Committee in October, denying that gambling created “social harms”.<\/p>\n
She added that potential tax hikes risked pushing punters towards “an unregulated black market”.<\/p>\n
Philip McGuigan disagreed.<\/p>\n
McGuigan told BBC News NI that he has first-hand experience with the addictive and “predatory” nature of online gambling.<\/p>\n
“I have suffered at the hands of gambling harm, thankfully everyday now is a day in recovery.”<\/p>\n
“There were times, for example when I self-excluded from sites but during that period I was receiving e-mails from the same sites encouraging me back in with free bets, with other types of incentives.<\/p>\n
“We have seen that time and time again whether it’s through predatory advertising, predatory e-mails.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Betting and Gaming Council’s chief executive, Grainne Hurst, appeared before Westminster’s Treasury Select Committee in October, denying…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":305586,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[49,48,84,393,394],"class_list":["post-305585","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mental-health","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-health","tag-mental-health","tag-mentalhealth"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/305585","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=305585"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/305585\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/305586"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=305585"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=305585"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=305585"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}