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Seanad: Online Safety and Media Regulation Bill 2022: Second Stage (22 Feb 2022)

Fintan Warfield: I welcome the Minister to the House. It is a source of significant frustration that she has yet to publish the Future of Media Commission's report. The co-operation and synergy between the commission and the new regulator were core issues for the joint committee when debating this Bill. Here we are discussing the dissolution of the Broadcasting Authority of Ireland, yet the Parliament does...

Seanad: Coroners (Provision for Jury Selection) (Amendment) Bill 2022: Second Stage (23 Feb 2022)

Fintan Warfield: I note the tireless determination of the families. It is an honour to have them here in the Chamber. They are very welcome here. These are their Houses. I am also very proud to call Senator Boylan a colleague. I commend her on her work, and I am proud to co-sign this legislation. As Senator Boylan stated, the Bill involves a basic amendment to the Coroners Act 1962 to deal with the...

Seanad: Coroners (Provision for Jury Selection) (Amendment) Bill 2022: Second Stage (23 Feb 2022)

Fintan Warfield: When is it proposed to take Committee Stage?

Seanad: Coroners (Provision for Jury Selection) (Amendment) Bill 2022: Second Stage (23 Feb 2022)

Fintan Warfield: Is that agreed? Agreed.

Seanad: Coroners (Provision for Jury Selection) (Amendment) Bill 2022: Second Stage (23 Feb 2022)

Fintan Warfield: When is it proposed to sit again?

Seanad: Mental Health and Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services: Statements (24 Feb 2022)

Fintan Warfield: I welcome the Minister of State, Deputy Butler, to the House. I get the impression every time she attends the House that she is very passionate about this topic, which is quite refreshing. I wish her well. People speak about mental health and it may well be too black and white to say it is a generational issue; it is certainly not but people are now so open about whether they go to...

Joint Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media: A Safe and Respectful Working Environment in the Arts: Discussion (16 Feb 2022)

Fintan Warfield: Ms Kennelly said organisations have to notify the Arts Council of any HR issues. Did I hear that correctly?

Joint Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media: A Safe and Respectful Working Environment in the Arts: Discussion (16 Feb 2022)

Fintan Warfield: I am conscious that while we are talking about the Arts Council and we are looking at funding conditions. We are perhaps missing the funding allocated by local authorities by the Department directly. Should we aim for a situation where the Arts Council sets the bar for funding applications where local authorities and Departments perhaps have been tightening up their allocations on the basis...

Committee on Public Petitions: Election of Vice Chairman (17 Feb 2022)

Fintan Warfield: I congratulate Deputy Devlin.

Committee on Public Petitions: Annual Reports of the Press Council of Ireland and Office of the Press Ombudsman: Press Ombudsman (17 Feb 2022)

Fintan Warfield: I am conscious that it has been a long session. I appreciate the time Mr. Feeney has given. I am a member of the Oireachtas Joint Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport and Media, which produced a report on the Online Safety and Media Regulation Bill 2022. I welcome Mr. Feeney's comments on that. The Bill will be taken in the Seanad, on Second Stage, next week. I suppose I am...

Committee on Public Petitions: Annual Reports of the Press Council of Ireland and Office of the Press Ombudsman: Press Ombudsman (17 Feb 2022)

Fintan Warfield: Another issue, which one of the members touched on at the beginning of the discussion, is the individual complaints mechanism. Given the online commissioner has the power to set that up, does Mr. Feeney agree that should be part of the commissioner's work? It is going to an expert review, which will take as long as the Bill takes in the Seanad which is also disappointing to me.

Committee on Public Petitions: Annual Reports of the Press Council of Ireland and Office of the Press Ombudsman: Press Ombudsman (17 Feb 2022)

Fintan Warfield: I ask about bursaries for journalists coming from the State. It crossed my mind during the debate here. One of the recommendations - I am not sure if this is covered by Mr. Feeney's remit - is that-----

Committee on Public Petitions: Annual Reports of the Press Council of Ireland and Office of the Press Ombudsman: Press Ombudsman (17 Feb 2022)

Fintan Warfield: I have seen it. I have seen the change in the age and the demographics of some of the journalists around Leinster House. They are also affected by the housing crisis and all the issues young people are facing. I thank Mr. Feeney for his time.

Seanad: Situation in the Middle East: Statements (1 Mar 2022)

Fintan Warfield: I welcome the Palestinian ambassador to the House. I also welcome Mr. Tim Hanley from Amnesty International and all our visitors in the Public Gallery. I commend Amnesty International on its work on this report. It very much interrogates the record of the Israeli state in its treatment of the Palestinian people. It is a stark document that records a litany of crimes against humanity and...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (2 Mar 2022)

Fintan Warfield: I want to commend what two artists have done in recent weeks. Brian Teeling and Emma Roche have both instructed the National Gallery of Ireland to remove their works from the walls of the gallery. By doing so, they have put their practices at considerable risk to protest the fact that the National Gallery of Ireland has contracted the US company Aramark to take over the café on Merrion...

Joint Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media: Online Disinformation and Media Literacy: Ms Frances Haugen (23 Feb 2022)

Fintan Warfield: I welcome Ms Haugen and I commend her on and thank her for the work she has done for the public good. Moments such as Cambridge Analytica, the documentary "The Social Dilemma" and Ms Haugen's testimony to Congress give us an insight into what goes on under the hood of big tech giants. What Ms Haugen is doing is very powerful. I thank her for that, which, probably, is something...

Joint Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media: Online Disinformation and Media Literacy: Ms Frances Haugen (23 Feb 2022)

Fintan Warfield: Ms Haugen mentioned that there is no silver bullet to make the Internet safer. We are so far behind in discussing regulation in that we are still talking about looking at the 2D flatscreen while big tech, as Ms Haugen has acknowledged, is pumping money not into safety but into ploughing ahead with a version of the Internet that we are inside, that is a very immersive experience in terms of...

Joint Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media: Online Disinformation and Media Literacy: Ms Frances Haugen (23 Feb 2022)

Fintan Warfield: I again thank Ms Haugen for her work.

Seanad: Housing Policy: Motion (2 Mar 2022)

Fintan Warfield: I welcome the Minister of State to the House. The guests in the Public Gallery are also very welcome. I commend Senators Ruane, Flynn, Black and Higgins for bringing forward this motion, which is a welcome opportunity to discuss housing outside the confines of legislation, which many of us do often. I thank them for tabling this motion. I wish to address two items in the motion, that is,...