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Seanad: Copyright and Other Intellectual Property Law Provisions Bill 2018: Committee Stage (3 Oct 2018)

Fintan Warfield: Yes, but the Fianna Fáil amendment has delayed it for two years. How long does the Minister of State expect the feasibility study to take?

Seanad: Copyright and Other Intellectual Property Law Provisions Bill 2018: Committee Stage (3 Oct 2018)

Fintan Warfield: The feasibility study that has suddenly become the main part of this debate was only included by Fianna Fáil in the Dáil as a result of the legislation entirely ignoring the digital deposit. The legislation deals with ebooks. I would not be doing my job as someone who holds the Government to account if I did not take into account the 90% of the people who came to the Department...

Seanad: The Transfer of Functions of Dún Laoghaire Harbour Company to Dún Laoghaire-Rathdown County Council: Statements (3 Oct 2018)

Fintan Warfield: I commend Senator Horkan for calling for this debate. The transfer of the functions of DLHC to Dún Laoghaire-Rathdown County Council is shrouded in confusion. It is disappointing that this debate falls on the day on which, I understand, the transfer is due to be completed. The risk assessor's report has projected a net financial risk of €33.5 million to the council, local...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs: Mid-Year Review of Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Discussion (3 Oct 2018)

Fintan Warfield: I welcome the Minister and I thank her for her presentation. On the doubling of funding, I accept that the Minister cannot give any commitments this close to the budget despite the seven-year commitment in this regard but Governments have a responsibility not to make promises they cannot keep and to keep every commitment they make. When the Taoiseach referred to a doubling of arts funding...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs: Mid-Year Review of Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Discussion (3 Oct 2018)

Fintan Warfield: If I work for the Heritage Council or I rely on its support for local projects can I be confident that the Taoiseach's commitment to a doubling of funding, which the Minister has clarified is arts, culture and sports funding, includes funding for the heritage area?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs: Mid-Year Review of Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Discussion (3 Oct 2018)

Fintan Warfield: And sport.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs: Mid-Year Review of Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Discussion (3 Oct 2018)

Fintan Warfield: I welcome the Minister's comments regarding Project Ireland 2040. Will the Minister accept that there is a notable absence in Project Ireland 2040 around capital funding for artist spaces? The local authorities, including Dublin City Council, do very good work in this regard. The Dublin City Council development plan makes provision for artist spaces but there is much more to be done at a...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs: Mid-Year Review of Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Discussion (3 Oct 2018)

Fintan Warfield: Under what programme is the €40 million provided?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs: Mid-Year Review of Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Discussion (3 Oct 2018)

Fintan Warfield: The Minister also mentioned the protection of collections, which is set out on page 5. From my reading of the plan I do not get a sense that there is a commitment to a shared national storage facility. We are hearing from our national institutions that there is an unprecedented storage crisis as collections continue to grow. We all know that without intervention those collections are at...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs: Mid-Year Review of Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Discussion (3 Oct 2018)

Fintan Warfield: The Minister mentioned the digitisation of collections. When I leave this meeting I will be going to the Seanad for the debate on the Copyright and Other Intellectual Property Law Provisions Bill 2018. I accept that this does not come within the Minister's remit but her Department did some work in this area under the former Minister, Deputy Humphreys. Fianna Fáil passed an amendment...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs: Mid-Year Review of Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Discussion (3 Oct 2018)

Fintan Warfield: Given the conversations about the policy of "arm's length", and given that it is curated by the Department, will the Bank of Ireland space go out to tender? How does the Minister see the space being "animated", as she said in her speech? Can we expect that space to be run at an arm's length as well? It is a major cultural space in this city.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs: Mid-Year Review of Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Discussion (3 Oct 2018)

Fintan Warfield: All the exhibitions will be under its remit in the ten-year period.

Seanad: Mental Health (Capacity To Consent To Treatment) Bill 2018: Second Stage (10 Oct 2018)

Fintan Warfield: I welcome this Bill, those who have joined us in the Gallery and those watching elsewhere. I am proud to be a co-signatory to this legislation, particularly given this is World Mental Health Day, a day when the responses to the well-being of our people should be evaluated. While mental health issues such as anxiety, depression and bipolar disorder know no age, international evidence has...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Tackling Childhood Obesity: Discussion (Resumed) (10 Oct 2018)

Fintan Warfield: My questions are on cycling so they are mainly for Mr. Ryan. The first issue I want to raise is the accessibility of public open spaces and recreational spaces. Chairman, with respect, I almost laughed out loud when he referenced private leisure parks considering the Land Development Agency has been designed to sell public land to private developers. On cycling, if we design roads with...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Tackling Childhood Obesity: Discussion (Resumed) (10 Oct 2018)

Fintan Warfield: The answer to my next question matters. We are talking about young people choosing to cycle and parents allowing them to choose cycling as a mode of school transport. Is there any road user more at risk in a city than a cyclist?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Tackling Childhood Obesity: Discussion (Resumed) (10 Oct 2018)

Fintan Warfield: Yes.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Tackling Childhood Obesity: Discussion (Resumed) (10 Oct 2018)

Fintan Warfield: I respect that view. The Chairman mentioned that our cities are old and there are bottlenecks so one cannot facilitate cyclists. When I cycle to work in Leinster House I feel the most safe when I cycle on the cycle lane around St. Stephen's Green because it is much wider than elsewhere. The city of Brussels in Belgium has contraflow cycle lanes all over the place. I feel their...

Seanad: Order of Business (11 Oct 2018)

Fintan Warfield: I wish to talk about young people in the context of the budget and to state my disappointment that those who are under the age of 26 have yet again been left out in the cold. From March, those aged 18 to 24 will get €112.70 and those aged 25 will get €157.80, while everyone else will get €203 a week. The financial disparity in this measure is frightfully ageist. It...

Seanad: Order of Business (17 Oct 2018)

Fintan Warfield: Did the Leas-Chathaoirleach say "Derek"?

Seanad: Order of Business (17 Oct 2018)

Fintan Warfield: I always enjoyed my time in the Gleneagle. I will speak briefly. I am very disappointed this morning to hear that the plan for a civic plaza at College Green has been turned down by An Bord Pleanála. This issue is about the €10 million proposal to pedestrianise the space in front of Trinity College, to the side of Bank of Ireland and up Dame Street and to turn the area into a...