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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Regional Development, Rural Affairs, Arts and the Gaeltacht: Irish Film Board: Chairperson Designate (28 Sep 2016)

Fintan Warfield: Regarding access to the national cultural institutions, Ms Heaney mentioned Mayo. Is there greater scope in this regard if funding is provided?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Regional Development, Rural Affairs, Arts and the Gaeltacht: Estimates for Public Services 2016: Vote 33 - Department of Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs (28 Sep 2016)

Fintan Warfield: My questions are in much the same vein. We concluded the section of the programme areas of arts, culture and film with a discussion around the centenary programme. Various arts representative groups have called for those equivalent moneys to be maintained. Is the Minister conscious of that call? Is it a call she identified with and has she asked the Departments of Public Expenditure and...

Seanad: Order of Business (29 Sep 2016)

Fintan Warfield: I second Senator Nash's proposal.

Seanad: Order of Business (29 Sep 2016)

Fintan Warfield: This week, I joined IMPACT library staff in Dún Laoghaire's Lexicon library who were expressing their opposition to a council management decision to proceed with the policy of unstaffed libraries. I accept that HR matters are matters that concern council management, but at a time when our public library service is being eroded, libraries are being closed and a policy of staffless...

Seanad: Order of Business (4 Oct 2016)

Fintan Warfield: We have yet to welcome the Minister for Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs, Deputy Humphreys, to this House. We are now days out from budget 2017. I ask that following the budget announcement next week, the Minister, Deputy Humphreys, brief this Chamber on the work of her Department and answer questions in that regard. I raise this issue in the context of previous...

Seanad: Order of Business (6 Oct 2016)

Fintan Warfield: Members will join me in expressing sympathy and extending condolences to the victims of Hurricane Matthew which is moving over the Bahamas causing flooding, rain and destructive winds as we speak. According to reports late last evening, the death toll in the Caribbean rose to 26 - four people reportedly died in the Dominican Republic and 22 were killed in Haiti. I understand that the...

Seanad: Budget 2017: Statements (11 Oct 2016)

Fintan Warfield: As a young person I listened with interest to the issues concerning people in my age group today, one in six of whom have left Ireland and many more of whom remain on social welfare payments. Today with the changes to the jobseeker's rate the Government continued a policy of age discrimination, which is a shameful indictment of this Government's attitude to our young people. Young people...

Seanad: Seanad Bill 2016: Second Stage (Resumed) (12 Oct 2016)

Fintan Warfield: My first memory of the Seanad was as a child. Long after the fanfare of general elections and posters, my best friend's house across the road would be flooded with election literature for the Seanad. I often wondered, and asked, why it was absent from our letter-box. Obviously, my father went to work at Guinness at the age of 15 and did not go to college. Neither did my mother. Young...

Seanad: Rent Certainty (No. 2) Bill 2016: Second Stage (12 Oct 2016)

Fintan Warfield: Senator Jerry Buttimer spoke about how we in the Chamber can all share stories about the housing crisis. I certainly would not make apologies - I would not expect him to either - for expressing the needs and concerns of those most marginalised. Sinn Féin is in government in the North and works at local government level too. One of the first events at which I met Senator Paudie Coffey...

Seanad: Children and Youth Affairs: Statements (18 Oct 2016)

Fintan Warfield: I welcome the Minister. I wish to deal specifically with issues affecting the LGBTQI community, young people in particular. In June, during the Dublin Pride weekend, the Minister's Department announced that it would lead the development of Ireland's first national LGBT strategy for young people. A more suitable weekend could not have been found. The LGBT Ireland report identified the very...

Seanad: Order of Business (20 Oct 2016)

Fintan Warfield: I commend the Union of Students in Ireland, USI, and the thousands of students who took ownership of the streets of this city yesterday. Their message was loud and clear - they do not want to see student fees being introduced and neither do their parents. The State and this society cannot afford them. We have seen the disastrous impact of student loans in every country in which they have...

Seanad: Protection of Cultural Property in the Event of Armed Conflict (Hague Convention) Bill 2016: Second Stage (27 Oct 2016)

Fintan Warfield: Our cultural institutions and buildings embody where we have come from as a society and what previous generations have projected to shape society. In turn, those institutions shape who we are today. When one considers our culture and cultural buildings, one does not have to look further than this House and the surrounding campus to view buildings that house cultural activity. It often...

Seanad: Heritage Bill 2016: Committee Stage (9 Nov 2016)

Fintan Warfield: Sinn Féin holds a deep appreciation for the value of the natural, educational and cultural importance of hedgerows. They link our archaeological, geological, social and natural heritage. They are a utility in the present but mark the past and their values are multifunctional in both practical and spiritual forms. They enrich our understanding of history, ecology, rural society and...

Seanad: Heritage Bill 2016: Committee Stage (Resumed) (17 Nov 2016)

Fintan Warfield: I welcome the fact that Senator O'Reilly referenced the fact that we are national representatives. This is a good opportunity to make the case that the urban-rural divide in this debate is problematic. Senator Black mentioned her joy in travelling across Ireland and I can attest to that having returned from Killarney at all hours of the morning and having travelled to many parts of this...

Seanad: Order of Business (22 Nov 2016)

Fintan Warfield: I raise the objectionable tweet from the Taoiseach, Deputy Enda Kenny, in recent days in which he, in our name, gushed about Mike Pence, who apparently knows and understands the issues that affect our people. Why did the Taoiseach extend an invitation to Mike Pence to visit this island? The tweet went far beyond what was necessary in terms of diplomacy. He tweeted: "He certainly knows...

Seanad: Order of Business (22 Nov 2016)

Fintan Warfield: I will be across the road with a banner.

Seanad: Order of Business (22 Nov 2016)

Fintan Warfield: The Taoiseach said that Mike Pence understands-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs: Sustaining Viable Rural Communities: Discussion (Resumed) (22 Nov 2016)

Fintan Warfield: I thank every speaker for his or her contribution. The meeting has been very informative. I will not promise a structured narrative from the notes I have taken, but I have a few questions, the first of which Mr. Ludlow might address. Recommendation No. 25 in the CEDRA report concerns the creative industries. To take up where Senator Marie-Louise O'Donnell left off, the first paragraph...

Seanad: Order of Business (24 Nov 2016)

Fintan Warfield: I raise the appointments made by the Minister for Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs, Deputy Heather Humphreys, to the board of the Irish Museum of Modern Art, IMMA. Of the nine appointments made, only three of them were women. Concerns have been expressed to me about the artistic expertise of some of the nine appointments. I understand a broad range of expertise, not...

Seanad: Order of Business (24 Nov 2016)

Fintan Warfield: -----particularly in the context of the arts where women and allies have been campaigning for policies of inclusion, equality and economic parity. Will the Minister, Deputy Heather Humphreys, be more ambitious with her appointments and give more consideration to the landscape in which she makes them? Separately, RTE was already raised in the Seanad today. RTE, in a statement to the Irish...