Anne Marie Caulfield has already been appointed as chief executive to begin work on establishing the authority.He said if an online gambling company was beyond the reach of this jurisdiction, the legislation would enable the gambling regulator to instruct the Internet Service Provider to make the site unavailable in Ireland.Prof Colin O’Gara, head of addiction services at Saint John of God Hospital in Dublin, said he was concerned that the decisions around limits and gambling controls have been divested to the new Gambling Regulatory Authority, putting an onerous task on a public office.He expressed concern around timelines and what process the authority would go through to set controls and whether this would be “another challenge to get the protections we really want.”The Government plans to start recruiting 100 people for the authority in the coming weeks.It is the one addiction where you can actually argue it is justifiable in the context of the massive profits that gambling companies are making,” he said."