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Seanad: Assisted Decision-Making (Capacity) (Amendment) Bill 2022: Report Stage (29 Nov 2022)

Fintan Warfield: May I commend the Minister on the amendment?

Seanad: Assisted Decision-Making (Capacity) (Amendment) Bill 2022: Report Stage (29 Nov 2022)

Fintan Warfield: I second the amendment.

Joint Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media: Future Business Model Plans and Long-term Vision for the Media Sector: Discussion (24 Nov 2022)

Fintan Warfield: I thank the Chair and all of the witnesses. I wanted the committee to invite Dublin Digital Radio alongside CRAOL, to give a representation of what the media landscape looks like in Ireland between those regulated by the BAI and Dublin Digital Radio. I congratulate Dublin Digital Radio on the award from Mixcloud. With regard to community media generally, whether or not it is under the...

Seanad: Planning and Development and Foreshore (Amendment) Bill 2022: Second Stage (6 Dec 2022)

Fintan Warfield: I welcome the Minister and his officials. I also thank the officials for the briefing they provided yesterday. I begin by expressing again my deep concern and unease, as many others have done, about the introduction of legislation in this last-minute fashion. Like others, I wish to place on record the fact that is not a good way to make law. There have been far too many instances of...

Seanad: National Tourism Development Authority (Amendment) Bill 2022: Second Stage (6 Dec 2022)

Fintan Warfield: I welcome the Minister. This short and technical Bill will provide the statutory basis to allow the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform to increase the aggregate level of funding that will be made available to Fáilte Ireland. As has been said, the current ceiling is €300 million and the Bill will see it increase to €500 million. Sinn Féin will support the...

Seanad: Online Safety and Media Regulation Bill 2022: [Seanad Bill amended by the Dáil] Report and Final Stages (6 Dec 2022)

Fintan Warfield: Is it envisaged that community television broadcasters would be also included in the scheme?

Seanad: Online Safety and Media Regulation Bill 2022: [Seanad Bill amended by the Dáil] Report and Final Stages (6 Dec 2022)

Fintan Warfield: That is to be welcomed and I commend the Minister on that.

Seanad: Online Safety and Media Regulation Bill 2022: [Seanad Bill amended by the Dáil] Report and Final Stages (6 Dec 2022)

Fintan Warfield: The last time the Bill was before the Seanad the individual complaints mechanism was somewhat up in the air so I welcome its introduction now. However, my colleague, Senator Higgins, had some reservations about section 139(v) and I encouraged her to write to the Minister regarding same. Her concern relates to the requirement for the complainant to specify the category of harmful content...

Seanad: Online Safety and Media Regulation Bill 2022: [Seanad Bill amended by the Dáil] Report and Final Stages (6 Dec 2022)

Fintan Warfield: My apologies.

Seanad: Online Safety and Media Regulation Bill 2022: [Seanad Bill amended by the Dáil] Report and Final Stages (6 Dec 2022)

Fintan Warfield: I want just to say goodbye to Aertel.

Seanad: Online Safety and Media Regulation Bill 2022: [Seanad Bill amended by the Dáil] Report and Final Stages (6 Dec 2022)

Fintan Warfield: Aertel is a symbol of a simpler time. The number for the Premier League scores was 221, and at 3 o'clock on Saturday afternoons we wore down those buttons on the remote refreshing the scores. It was where we got the League of Ireland fixtures as well. Goodbye, Aertel.

Seanad: Online Safety and Media Regulation Bill 2022: [Seanad Bill amended by the Dáil] Report and Final Stages (6 Dec 2022)

Fintan Warfield: I thank the Minister for outlining the changes made in the Dáil. We are obviously disappointed that the levy has not been prescribed in the Bill, but we look forward to the work coimisiún na meán will undertake on the content levy. It will be an extremely important funding stream for the industry. I welcome the independent production element to the scheme and the addition of...

Seanad: Online Safety and Media Regulation Bill 2022: [Seanad Bill amended by the Dáil] Report and Final Stages (6 Dec 2022)

Fintan Warfield: I speak for Senator Higgins and myself in thanking the Minister and her officials for their engagement. It is a real example of how, when sufficient time is given to the parliamentary process, we can improve legislation together. Some of the amendments the Minister has spoken about today were proposed in this House. I thank the Oireachtas committee and its staff for the time put into the Bill.

Seanad: Finance Bill 2022: Committee Stage (7 Dec 2022)

Fintan Warfield: I had intended to oppose section 6. However, I will make a few points about the help-to-buy scheme, which we are discussing in this recommendation. The extension of the scheme will have a full-year cost in 2023 of €175 million. In its current guise, the scheme has certain requirements of applicants.One must take out a mortgage of at least 70% of the cost to buy a newly built home or...

Seanad: Finance Bill 2022: Committee Stage (7 Dec 2022)

Fintan Warfield: The Minister said that a minority of property transactions in the State involve people availing of the help-to-buy scheme. Since its introduction in 2016, the scheme has cost €603 million. That is more than half a billion euro and represents a significant cost to the State. While it involves a small number of transactions, I know that in previous years some 40% of those who...

Seanad: Finance Bill 2022: Committee Stage (7 Dec 2022)

Fintan Warfield: Section 18 provides for an extension to the measure, the special assignee relief programme, for a further three years until 2025. In addition, in the interests of improving the economic efficiency of the scheme, the Bill provides that for new entrants there will be an increase from €75,000 to €100,000 in the income threshold to avail of the scheme. Existing claimants will not...

Seanad: Finance Bill 2022: Committee Stage (7 Dec 2022)

Fintan Warfield: I move recommendation No. 8: In page 66, between lines 8 and 9, to insert the following: “Report on the Foreign Earnings Deduction 25. The Minister shall, within six months of the passing of this Act, prepare and lay before Dáil Éireann a report on the Foreign Earnings Deduction, the extent to which the relief has achieved its policy objectives and to review its...

Seanad: Finance Bill 2022: Committee Stage (7 Dec 2022)

Fintan Warfield: I move recommendation No. 9: In page 66, between lines 8 and 9, to insert the following: “Report on income tax relief 25.The Minister shall, within six months of the passing of this Act, prepare and lay before Dáil Éireann a report on an income tax relief equivalent in value to 8.3 per cent of annual rent to all private rental tenants not already in receipt of any State...

Seanad: Finance Bill 2022: Committee Stage (7 Dec 2022)

Fintan Warfield: It is a strong response that is being proposed by the Government and we welcome it. I do not doubt that if I went back to the record that I could find Senator Cummins speaking against a tax relief that is being proposed by Sinn Féin.

Seanad: Finance Bill 2022: Committee Stage (7 Dec 2022)

Fintan Warfield: If we can bring it back to this recommendation particularly, I do not think it is a lot to ask that a report be laid before the Dáil so I will press it.