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Seanad: Civil Registration Bill 2019: Second Stage (18 Apr 2019)

Fintan Warfield: I welcome the Minister to the House. Obviously Sinn Féin will support the Bill. While it is technical, it represents a series of steps on a very long road for equal parental rights for LGBTQI couples. The failure to commence key parts of the Children and Family Relationships Act is probably the issue I have discussed most in my short time in this House, mainly because it is one of the...

Seanad: Civil Registration Bill 2019: Second Stage (18 Apr 2019)

Fintan Warfield: I thought he was going to go for the Taoiseach.

Seanad: Civil Registration Bill 2019: Second Stage (18 Apr 2019)

Fintan Warfield: We need advocates at Cabinet and I thank the Minister for her work.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Children's Rights Alliance Report Card 2019: Discussion (8 May 2019)

Fintan Warfield: I was at the launch and it is a really important indicator and really important for our work to see where the State is at. Did the Department engage with the Children's Rights Alliance before and after and what did that engagement look like? Did it contest anything?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Children's Rights Alliance Report Card 2019: Discussion (8 May 2019)

Fintan Warfield: We have the Minister, Deputy Zappone, in next week for an update on the lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, intersex, LGBTI, strategy. It is only a two year strategy so we are about a year in. I have not seen many actions completed but that said, they could be teeing everything up for the second the year. Relationships, sexuality, education, bullying in schools, gender recognition and the...

Seanad: Residential Tenancies (Amendment) (No. 2) Bill 2018: Second Stage (14 May 2019)

Fintan Warfield: Sinn Féin welcomes the Bill and will be supporting it. I am disappointed, as ever, when we have to submit amendments quite rapidly or before Second Stage is finished, but I will not dwell on that tonight. There is much more that needs to be done, both within and beyond this Bill. We saw from yesterday's daft.ie report that the average rent in Dublin hit over €2,000 for the...

Seanad: Copyright and Other Intellectual Property Law Provisions Bill 2018: Report Stage (15 May 2019)

Fintan Warfield: I welcome the Minister of State, Deputy Halligan, to the House. I welcome these amendments. I note the attendance of the Irish Recorded Music Association, IRMA, and the Irish Copyright Licensing Agency in the Gallery and their interest in the Bill. I acknowledge that the Minister of State has been furnished with an opinion from the former Attorney General, Mr. Paul Gallagher SC, who pointed...

Seanad: Copyright and Other Intellectual Property Law Provisions Bill 2018: Report Stage (15 May 2019)

Fintan Warfield: Hear, hear.

Seanad: Copyright and Other Intellectual Property Law Provisions Bill 2018: Report Stage (15 May 2019)

Fintan Warfield: I did not get much clarity on the reason for the licensing. My point was not addressed.

Seanad: Copyright and Other Intellectual Property Law Provisions Bill 2018: Report Stage (15 May 2019)

Fintan Warfield: Will the Minister of State clarify whether it is presumed that the producer has the rights over the recording and are those rights subject to that licence outlined in amendment No. 2?

Seanad: Copyright and Other Intellectual Property Law Provisions Bill 2018: Report Stage (15 May 2019)

Fintan Warfield: I second the amendment.

Seanad: Copyright and Other Intellectual Property Law Provisions Bill 2018: Report Stage (15 May 2019)

Fintan Warfield: I will speak to amendment No. 7. I remind the House that we are talking about the digital deposit. Institutions such as Trinity College Dublin and the National Library of Ireland have a responsibility to archive every physical publication in the State. We have not yet designed a digital deposit scheme to protect what is put online within 100 days. What is put online is vulnerable to...

Seanad: Copyright and Other Intellectual Property Law Provisions Bill 2018: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (15 May 2019)

Fintan Warfield: I second the amendment.

Seanad: Copyright and Other Intellectual Property Law Provisions Bill 2018: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (15 May 2019)

Fintan Warfield: I second the amendment.

Seanad: Copyright and Other Intellectual Property Law Provisions Bill 2018: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (15 May 2019)

Fintan Warfield: I second the amendment.

Seanad: Copyright and Other Intellectual Property Law Provisions Bill 2018: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (15 May 2019)

Fintan Warfield: I thank the Minister of State and his officials for facilitating our requests for meetings. I might seek further clarity in writing on amendment No. 2. I ask the Minister of State to consider the goodwill that we have given the Bill. I urge him to be a champion for the digital deposit scheme as it needs a champion in Government. Our national institutions, particularly the National Library...

Seanad: Residential Tenancies (Amendment) (No. 2) Bill 2018: Committee Stage (15 May 2019)

Fintan Warfield: I move amendment No. 9:In page 11, between lines 13 and 14, to insert the following:“(2) For the purposes of this section, the entirety of the Carrigaline local electoral area, shall be deemed to be a rent pressure zone.”. This issue was raised with me by Councillor Michael Frick Murphy and by Deputy Ó Laoghaire. Rent pressure zones were applied to city council areas,...

Seanad: Residential Tenancies (Amendment) (No. 2) Bill 2018: Committee Stage (15 May 2019)

Fintan Warfield: Is the Minister aware of any other LEAs half of which are in RPZs and half not?

Seanad: Residential Tenancies (Amendment) (No. 2) Bill 2018: Committee Stage (15 May 2019)

Fintan Warfield: Given the scale of what we have to do, I will not press the amendment. It would be helpful if the departmental officials could make themselves available to me and the councillors who will be elected in a few weeks. This situation seems to be unique in the State.

Seanad: Residential Tenancies (Amendment) (No. 2) Bill 2018: Committee Stage (15 May 2019)

Fintan Warfield: I move amendment No. 10:In page 11, between lines 13 and 14, to insert the following:“(2) For the purposes of this section, where an electoral area, which was changed or created by the 2018 revision of local electoral areas, and contains areas which were previously in an electoral area which was a rent pressure zone, the new electoral area shall be deemed in its entirety a rent...