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Seanad: Order of Business (24 Apr 2018)

Fintan Warfield: The RTÉ National Symphony Orchestra should remain as part of RTÉ. It currently has a legislative responsibility to uphold a number of orchestras and any move would only bring further uncertainty to those structures and shirk the funding issues which need to be solved.

Seanad: Councillors' Conditions: Statements (Resumed) (24 Apr 2018)

Fintan Warfield: I welcome the Minister of State, Deputy John Paul Phelan, to the House. I regret that I did not have an opportunity to speak in the previous debate on councillors' pay and conditions but I am pleased to do so now. Councillors are one of the most crucial tenets of this State's democracy. They provide in-depth knowledge of a particular local area, its community, its infrastructure and its...

Seanad: Order of Business (19 Apr 2018)

Fintan Warfield: I want to encourage Members from Fianna Fáil to support the Provision of Objective Sex Education Bill 2018 which is being voted on in the Dáil today. I found the reasoning for its opposition to the issue last night to be somewhat pathetic, as was pointed out by Deputy Ruth Coppinger. Fianna Fáil claimed that the issue would be dealt with in the coming weeks by the Joint...

Seanad: Public Service Broadcasting and Social Media Regulation: Statements (19 Apr 2018)

Fintan Warfield: I welcome the publication last month of the report on the future funding of public broadcasting. My colleague, Deputy Brian Stanley, is a member of the committee that produced the report and I acknowledge the role of many stakeholders in the sector that made submissions. What Sinn Féin certainly does not agree with is any increase in the licence fee. There is currently a two-year...

Seanad: Order of Business (18 Apr 2018)

Fintan Warfield: I want to raise the issue of equal parental rights and the family rights of children with same-sex parents. Three years ago, many Members of both Houses stood in celebration with the LGBT community as the announcement came from the RDS that the civil marriage equality referendum had passed. The legislation that gave effect to marriage equality, the Children and Family Relationships Act...

Seanad: Order of Business (18 Apr 2018)

Fintan Warfield: Yes.

Seanad: Order of Business (18 Apr 2018)

Fintan Warfield: We have heard it all before.

Seanad: Order of Business (18 Apr 2018)

Fintan Warfield: We have given the Minister three years.

Seanad: Order of Business (18 Apr 2018)

Fintan Warfield: Can we meet the Department?

Seanad: Childcare Support Bill 2017: Second Stage (18 Apr 2018)

Fintan Warfield: Sinn Féin will support the Childcare Support Bill 2017. It marks an important step in the right direction to bringing our childcare provisions to a more formalised standing and to give certainty to a sector, the instability of which has seen childcare costs spiral out of control. Sinn Féin wants to see childcare costs reduced and we believe this can only be achieved through State...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Tackling Childhood Obesity: Discussion (18 Apr 2018)

Fintan Warfield: I am new to this committee and am coming late to this conversation. I held the communications and arts brief. I studied film and television production in Galway and was always conscious of Bob Quinn who, during his time in RTÉ, called for a complete ban on children's advertising. While I accept that RTÉ and TG4, which are State broadcasters, would be appalled by the loss of...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Tackling Childhood Obesity: Discussion (18 Apr 2018)

Fintan Warfield: The digital age of consent. Facebook would respond to anyone with concerns about children's advertising online by saying children should not be using Facebook.

Seanad: Planning and Development (Amendment) Bill 2016: Committee Stage (Resumed) (17 Apr 2018)

Fintan Warfield: The amendment relates to the national planning framework and it calls on the Government to ensure that a vote is held in the Seanad and the Dáil before the document is placed on a statutory footing. I will call a vote on this amendment when it is appropriate to do so. If the vote falls I would like to return to the matter on Report Stage. This is because of legal advice that has been...

Seanad: Planning and Development (Amendment) Bill 2016: Committee Stage (Resumed) (17 Apr 2018)

Fintan Warfield: Contrary to what the Minister of State said, I certainly do not consider myself a planning expert. However, I am keen to point out that I do not believe the Bill is entirely faithful to the spirit of the recommendations from the Mahon tribunal.

Seanad: Planning and Development (Amendment) Bill 2016: Committee Stage (Resumed) (17 Apr 2018)

Fintan Warfield: What about a stand-alone planning regulator?

Seanad: Planning and Development (Amendment) Bill 2016: Committee Stage (Resumed) (17 Apr 2018)

Fintan Warfield: I am pressing amendment No. 34 and I also reserve my right to resubmit it on Report Stage.

Seanad: Planning and Development (Amendment) Bill 2016: Committee Stage (Resumed) (17 Apr 2018)

Fintan Warfield: I move amendment No. 39:In page 49, after line 38, to insert the following:"(2) Section 38 of the Principal Act, as amended by the Planning and Development (Amendment) Act 2010, is amended by inserting the following new subsection after subsection (1A):“(1B) Prior to the Planning Authority giving its decision in respect of a planning application, the applicant shall disclose any...

Seanad: Planning and Development (Amendment) Bill 2016: Committee Stage (Resumed) (17 Apr 2018)

Fintan Warfield: I commend Senator Boyhan and agree with him wholeheartedly. This is an issue that has been dealt with in the Lower House. I take the word of the Minister of State that he is working on additional proposals. If I can reserve my right to resubmit this amendment, I will withdraw it.

Seanad: Appointment of Members of the Irish Human Rights and Equality Commission: Motion (29 Mar 2018)

Fintan Warfield: I welcome the Minister of State to the House. I wish those who are set to be appointed to the Irish Human Rights and Equality Commission the best of luck. I wish to use this opportunity to remind those involved that it is okay to rock the State boat and to criticise where fair criticism is required. It is okay to hold the Government to account and call it out on its failures in the area of...

Seanad: Commencement Matters: School Curriculum (28 Mar 2018)

Fintan Warfield: I welcome the Minister of State to the House. As he may know, calls for inclusive and robust relationships and sexuality education, RSE, and social, personal and health education, SPHE, curricula have been made for some time. It is has come to the fore in recent months, having been reflected in the ancillary recommendations of the Citizens' Assembly and Joint Committee on the Eighth...