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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Governance and Child Protection Policy: Scouting Ireland (9 May 2018)

Fintan Warfield: Please do, if possible.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Review of Relationships and Sexuality Education: Discussion (15 May 2018)

Fintan Warfield: I thank our guests for contributing to this somewhat emotional committee hearing. I know someone who has said their experiences would have been different if they had been given this information when they were younger. Two years after I left school, I was the victim of a sexual assault. It took me five years to realise what consent was. After I watched an RTÉ documentary called...

Seanad: Commencement Matters: Children and Family Services Provision (16 May 2018)

Fintan Warfield: I welcome the Minister of State. This is the fifth occasion on which I have raised this issue. I have raised it three times on the Order of Business and this is the second Commencement matter I have tabled in respect of it. More than six months have passed since I raised it by way of a Commencement matter. At that point, it had already been two and a half years since enactment of the...

Seanad: Commencement Matters: Children and Family Services Provision (16 May 2018)

Fintan Warfield: I thank the Minister of State. I welcome the fact that he has committed to prepare legislation - should that be needed - and bring it through the Houses as soon as possible. I also welcome the opportunity for a briefing for Oireachtas Members. However, it is not good enough for those parents whose families have been left vulnerable for the Department to repeat that discussions are ongoing...

Seanad: Mental Health (Amendment) Bill 2017: Report and Final Stages (16 May 2018)

Fintan Warfield: I do.

Seanad: Mental Health (Amendment) Bill 2017: Report and Final Stages (16 May 2018)

Fintan Warfield: I move amendment No. 8:In page 4, between lines 11 and 12, to insert the following: “Amendment of section 15 of Principal Act 4. Section 15 of the Principal Act is amended by the substitution of the following subsection for subsection (3):“(3) The period referred to in subsection (1) may be further extended by order made by the consultant psychiatrist concerned for a period...

Seanad: Mental Health (Amendment) Bill 2017: Report and Final Stages (16 May 2018)

Fintan Warfield: I congratulate my Fianna Fáil colleagues and the Deputy who has joined us on their work on this very important Bill. Sinn Féin is supporting the Fianna Fáil amendments. Our amendment is an amendment to section 15 of the principal Act. It seeks to resolve an issue raised by a recent Court of Appeal ruling in the case of AB v. St. Loman’s Hospital. The court ruled that...

Seanad: Mental Health (Amendment) Bill 2017: Report and Final Stages (16 May 2018)

Fintan Warfield: I am just reflecting on our engagement with civil society on this. I have a note from Mental Health Reform which reminds us that, over three years ago, the expert group, when reviewing the 2001 Act, indicated that the third renewal order of up to 12 months is too long and recommended that it should be reduced to a period not exceeding six months. Mental Health Reform's note also states that...

Seanad: European Court Decision: Motion (16 May 2018)

Fintan Warfield: I welcome Mr. Shannon to the Gallery. I am very grateful for the opportunity to speak on an issue which goes to the core of human rights. Operation Demetrius was a British military operation which flagrantly disregarded the human rights of communities in the North. Not only were these men tortured, but 342 people were interned without trial. This number grew to 1,981 by December 1975. In...

Seanad: Order of Business (17 May 2018)

Fintan Warfield: I am sometimes anxious that I might talk too often on a certain issue but I also subscribe to the view "If not you, who?". Today marks International Day against Homophobia, Transphobia and Biphobia. On this day, global and state policymakers are asked to consider their progress in eliminating bigotry and prejudices that damage the lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer and intersex,...

Seanad: Childcare Support Bill 2017: Report and Final Stages (17 May 2018)

Fintan Warfield: I congratulate the Minister on the passing of the Bill in this House. We have made our concerns and our support known. I am sure it is a matter of great pride for the Minister to get the Bill passed.

Seanad: Order of Business (22 May 2018)

Fintan Warfield: I welcome the announcement yesterday by the National Youth Council of Ireland, NYCI, that based on preliminary figures, 125,000 young people have been added to the supplementary electoral register ahead of this week's referendum. This highlights that young people have a deep affinity with the issue of abortion and that they will respond and vote in droves when engaged. They are major...

Seanad: Commencement Matters: Digital Archiving (23 May 2018)

Fintan Warfield: I welcome the Minister of State. I requested the presence of the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht to address the upcoming Copyright and Other Intellectual Property Law Provisions Bill 2018 in the knowledge that it would soon be taken in the Chamber. It was my hope some clarity could be provided on the amendment to section 198 of the principal Act. It is my belief and that...

Seanad: Commencement Matters: Digital Archiving (23 May 2018)

Fintan Warfield: I thank the Minister of State. His response was extremely positive until the second last paragraph which stated that the amendment would allow copyright deposit institutions to accept publications in electronic format and require publishers to comply with any request. It is impossible for the National Library of Ireland, for example, to contact the several million websites we have in this...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs: Ceol in Éirinn: Plé (23 May 2018)

Fintan Warfield: I thank the witnesses for their presentations. My background is in music. I learned classical music from the age of six in the Royal Academy of Music. I was guided out of classical tuition and encouraged to pursue traditional music because when I reached grade five with the Royal Academy, I was literally not good enough so I was not able to progress through the grades on that front. I...

Seanad: Order of Business (29 May 2018)

Fintan Warfield: The weekend was momentous. I thank the women who told their personal stories. Many of us understand the harm and hurt that comes with that. Others will say it is cathartic, and perhaps that is the case, but only when the result was positive. For Parliaments elsewhere in the world, such as Australia or the North, where these decisions can be made, politicians owe us political will. I...

Seanad: National Minimum Wage (Removal of Sub-minimum Rates of Pay) Bill 2017: Second Stage (29 May 2018)

Fintan Warfield: I thank the Chair for facilitating my contribution to this debate. I was with the Seanad reform implementation group earlier so I am grateful for the chance to speak. I will be brief. I welcome the Minister and commend her on and thank her for her work in the campaign to repeal the eighth amendment. I am proud to support the Bill proposed by my colleague, Senator Gavan. He enhances the...

Seanad: Incorrect Birth Registrations: Statements (Resumed) (30 May 2018)

Fintan Warfield: I welcome the Minister to the House and commend her on her work. I also commend Tusla on identifying clear evidence of these illegal registrations, which took place from 1946 to 1969. It forwarded the information to An Garda Síochána. The Department was previously dismissive of any investigation, stating it would be "of limited benefit and would yield little useful information"....

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Tackling Childhood Obesity: Discussion (30 May 2018)

Fintan Warfield: I thank the witnesses for coming in. I have one question and it is open to any of the witnesses answer. It relates to the removal of choice and making home economics a compulsory subject. What difficulties do gender norms and stereotypes present for getting buy-in? Making it compulsory does not guarantee buy-in. There is a grain of truth in all stereotypes and while some are redundant,...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Tackling Childhood Obesity: Discussion (30 May 2018)

Fintan Warfield: I had a double module in first year and then had the choice to keep it on. It is also not lost on me that fully functioning kitchens for all-boys schools or in primary schools to start the process earlier would help.