13 May 2021 RHRG APG Meeting Minutes 

Minutes - RHRG APG inquiry session 11

Topic: Self-Exclusion
Date: Thursday, 13 May 2021 
Time: 1:30PM
Location: Virtual Meeting via Zoom platform  
Chairperson: Robbie Butler MLA
Minute taker: Megan McDermott, Chambré

Members Present
Robbie Butler MLA (RB)
Pat Catney MLA
Jim Wells MLA (joined 1:55PM)

Apologies
Philip McGuigan MLA

External guests
Charles Ritchie, Gambling with Lives (GwL)
Ciarán Mee Department for Communities (DfC)
Fiona Palmer, GamStop
Cllr John Kyle, Belfast City Council
Katie Reynolds-Jones, GamStop
Martina Campbell, DfC
Megan McDermott, Chambré
Peter Keogh, GwL
Rebecca Stevenson , CARE NI
Will Chambré, Chambré

Welcome
RB opened the meeting and advised attendees that the session would be recorded.

Minutes of last meeting
It was agreed that the minutes gave a true and accurate reflection of the last meeting of the group held on 6 May.

Matters arising
None

Oral evidence from:

• Fiona Palmer, CEO, GamStop – organisation behind the National Online Self Exclusion Scheme

• Katie Reynolds-Jones, Head of Marketing and Communications, GamStop

Questions
Witnesses took questions from members and from Department for Communities officials

AOB
None

Next meeting
RB informed members that the next meeting will be held on 20 May at 1:30PM. Members will hear from the Chair of the Westminster Gambling Related Harm APPG, Carolyn Harris MP.