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Seanad: Education (Leaving Certificate 2021) (Accredited Grades) Bill 2021: Committee and Remaining Stages (11 May 2021)

Fintan Warfield: I move amendment No. 7: In page 7, between lines 36 and 37, to insert the following: “(b) Where a review is carried out, the Commission shall afford the candidate an opportunity to be heard.”.

Committee on Public Petitions: Update on Direct Provision: The Ombudsman (11 May 2021)

Fintan Warfield: I am in the convention centre. I thank the witnesses for the presentation they have made. I missed the opening statements but I have read them. I refer to the developments that came with the White Paper on direct provision around the right to work. I apologise if it has been mentioned while I was absent. Does the witnesses' office deal with complaints from asylum seekers in cases where...

Committee on Public Petitions: Update on Direct Provision: The Ombudsman (11 May 2021)

Fintan Warfield: I might continue the conversation with Mr. Tyndall on another occasion, if that is okay.

Committee on Public Petitions: Update on Direct Provision: The Ombudsman (11 May 2021)

Fintan Warfield: I appreciate that. I thank the witnesses for their contribution.

Joint Committee on Media, Tourism, Arts, Culture, Sport and the Gaeltacht: General Scheme of the Online Safety and Media Regulation Bill 2020: Discussion (Resumed) (12 May 2021)

Fintan Warfield: I thank the witnesses for their comprehensive and helpful statements. The Department is telling us that an individual complaints mechanism would be quickly ground down, that there would be backlogs and, essentially, that it would not be effective. We know that Australia has a system in place whereby an individual complaints mechanism is available. I know from personal experience that when...

Joint Committee on Media, Tourism, Arts, Culture, Sport and the Gaeltacht: General Scheme of the Online Safety and Media Regulation Bill 2020: Discussion (Resumed) (12 May 2021)

Fintan Warfield: I have just one question. It may not be all that relevant but I will ask it just in case. A number of years ago, there was a considerable conversation on the digital age of consent. The Ombudsman for Children had a strong view on being realistic about children's Internet usage. Should we keep that in sight in respect of this Bill? We have one of the highest digital ages of consent, at...

Joint Committee on Media, Tourism, Arts, Culture, Sport and the Gaeltacht: General Scheme of the Online Safety and Media Regulation Bill 2020: Discussion (Resumed) (13 May 2021)

Fintan Warfield: All those stories are all gone. There is a little delay, but I will proceed. Do the witnesses think the Garda would need to be resourced with regard to online safety following the passing of this Bill? It was suggested by one of the social media companies that we split the Bill between media regulation and online safety. Do they have a response to that?

Joint Committee on Media, Tourism, Arts, Culture, Sport and the Gaeltacht: General Scheme of the Online Safety and Media Regulation Bill 2020: Discussion (Resumed) (13 May 2021)

Fintan Warfield: I thank the witnesses. That is very informative.

Seanad: Young People: Motion (17 May 2021)

Fintan Warfield: I wish to move amendments Nos. 1 and 5, if that is in order.

Seanad: Young People: Motion (17 May 2021)

Fintan Warfield: I will come to them. I am quite supportive of Senator Boyhan's comments regarding the need for the Government to take on board the amendments. When dealing with a youth motion, where does one start and where does one stop in the context of what we could have put in and what we left out? Every issue that goes through these Houses is relevant to young people. I will speak later about the...

Seanad: Young People: Motion (17 May 2021)

Fintan Warfield: I move amendment No. 5: To insert the following paragraphs after “calls on the Government to:” “- increase investment in youth work services to meet the needs of a growing youth population, noting that funding for youth work is still 8.5% below 2008 levels, and to invest an additional €10 million to assist voluntary youth organisations to support young people,...

Seanad: Affordable Housing Bill 2021: Second Stage (17 May 2021)

Fintan Warfield: Fine Gael has been in government for a decade and Fianna Fáil has supported it for half of that. We were always told, as we have been tonight, that solving the housing issue was going to take time. Even I believed that for a while. It takes time for anyone to build a house. The crisis has become worse as the years have gone by and a decade later, the housing crisis has become an...

Joint Committee on Media, Tourism, Arts, Culture, Sport and the Gaeltacht: General Scheme of the Online Safety and Media Regulation Bill 2020: Discussion (Resumed) (19 May 2021)

Fintan Warfield: I echo Deputy Griffin's comments. I have a question for the representatives Facebook. Today, Twitter made the same call as Facebook and requested that the proposed legislation to be delayed until the enactment of the EU Digital Services Act. The Digital Services Act does not make any major policy changes in the harmful content area. Therefore, I do not see how a delay would have any...

Joint Committee on Media, Tourism, Arts, Culture, Sport and the Gaeltacht: General Scheme of the Online Safety and Media Regulation Bill 2020: Discussion (Resumed) (19 May 2021)

Fintan Warfield: The Digital Services Act does not make any changes whatsoever in respect of harmful online content. In fact, online safety legislation in Britain has been delayed by the British Government. It has been suggested that Mark Zuckerberg threatened to pull investment from the UK. Records from a 2018 meeting show that he might look elsewhere in Europe to invest. We have seen the legislation be...

Joint Committee on Media, Tourism, Arts, Culture, Sport and the Gaeltacht: General Scheme of the Online Safety and Media Regulation Bill 2020: Discussion (Resumed) (19 May 2021)

Fintan Warfield: Do I have time for one more question?

Joint Committee on Media, Tourism, Arts, Culture, Sport and the Gaeltacht: General Scheme of the Online Safety and Media Regulation Bill 2020: Discussion (Resumed) (19 May 2021)

Fintan Warfield: I will address the following question to whichever of the witnesses wishes to respond. The future commission may want to standardise the transparency reporting of social media companies and could ask for the reports to be in the form national reports or state reports. Currently, the companies publish these statistics in the manner in which they wish. Would our guests welcome a standardised...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (25 May 2021)

Fintan Warfield: The conversation about Seanad reform has slowed. The programme for Government is completely silent on the need for Seanad reform. I am concerned that the conversation has slowed. We have had a Bill from Senator McDowell and others. This is essentially the work of the Seanad reform implementation group that was set up by Deputy Leo Varadkar when he was Taoiseach. I do not want the work of...

Joint Committee on Media, Tourism, Arts, Culture, Sport and the Gaeltacht: General Scheme of the Online Safety and Media Regulation Bill 2020: Discussion (Resumed) (20 May 2021)

Fintan Warfield: Gabhaim buíochas leis an gCathaoirleach. I want to focus on the content levy. Sky has made a number of observations about it that depart somewhat from the statements from the other witnesses about how the introduction of the content levy would possibly be distortional, be complex and might have unintended consequences. I do not really agree. The conversation we should be having is...

Joint Committee on Media, Tourism, Arts, Culture, Sport and the Gaeltacht: General Scheme of the Online Safety and Media Regulation Bill 2020: Discussion (Resumed) (20 May 2021)

Fintan Warfield: Why is Sky comfortable with the content levy or even an investment obligation in other European countries? Sky Italia pays an investment obligation, which I believe is 12.5%. A levy in Germany dates back to the 1960s. Why are Sky's companies in those states comfortable with the content levy while it is pushing back against it here or seeking to delay it?

Joint Committee on Media, Tourism, Arts, Culture, Sport and the Gaeltacht: General Scheme of the Online Safety and Media Regulation Bill 2020: Discussion (Resumed) (20 May 2021)

Fintan Warfield: That is fine. I have made my point that a levy is a standard tool for supporting domestic production on mainland Europe. It might not be very British or Irish but I do not believe we should delay it. By delaying, we are losing investment in Irish production. Mr. Esslemont mentioned the difficulty in getting fair play from Sky. Are there other platforms that display a lack of...