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Seanad: Order of Business (28 Nov 2017)

Fintan Warfield: Last Saturday was the annual deadline by which members of the public could register to vote. This was yet another year in which the Department for Housing, Planning and Local Government failed to bring this deadline to the attention of young people and other potential voters in this State, leaving much of the responsibility for registration of potential voters to civic society groups. This...

Seanad: Order of Business (28 Nov 2017)

Fintan Warfield: It is a rehash of the Creative Ireland brand.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs: Sexual Harassment in the Arts and Culture Sector: Discussion (23 Nov 2017)

Fintan Warfield: I welcome the contributors. I commend the women in the arts who have come forward, who told their stories and who have all contributed to this watershed moment. I commend Grace Dyas on her bravery. We are being told by Government that laws are in place. I am not so sure about that. Ms Karan O'Loughlin has mentioned more than once the opportunities on the legislative front for us, as...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs: Sexual Harassment in the Arts and Culture Sector: Discussion (23 Nov 2017)

Fintan Warfield: For Ms McBride, as a board member with voting rights to determine the allocation of public funding, did that represent a conflict of interest? If so, would Ms McBride have removed herself from those board conversations?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs: Sexual Harassment in the Arts and Culture Sector: Discussion (23 Nov 2017)

Fintan Warfield: With respect, we have a situation in which the Minister is clinging to section 24(2) of the Act which says "The council shall be independent in the performance of its functions under this section", that is in the funding of the arts. We are talking about more than €60 million in public moneys. If I see a conflict of interest, I think-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs: Sexual Harassment in the Arts and Culture Sector: Discussion (23 Nov 2017)

Fintan Warfield: With regard to funding from the Arts Council for an organisation that may have to settle cases in the future, is it possible for the board of that organisation to settle such cases with Arts Council moneys?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs: Sexual Harassment in the Arts and Culture Sector: Discussion (23 Nov 2017)

Fintan Warfield: The Arts Council says its strategic funding agreements will in future require organisations to either confirm or submit their policies in these areas, as well as in the area of gender equality. What will happen if they are in breach of those policies?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs: Sexual Harassment in the Arts and Culture Sector: Discussion (23 Nov 2017)

Fintan Warfield: With regard to the Department's involvement, was the Minister present today?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs: Sexual Harassment in the Arts and Culture Sector: Discussion (23 Nov 2017)

Fintan Warfield: The Minister has consistently said in the press that the council should be independent in the performance of its functions with regard to the funding of the arts. What the Minister is failing to tell people is that in Part 2, section 5 of the Arts Act 2003, the Minister can issue a directive to the Arts Council to suspend funding or future funding to any organisation. Why is the Department...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs: Sexual Harassment in the Arts and Culture Sector: Discussion (23 Nov 2017)

Fintan Warfield: I understand that.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs: Sexual Harassment in the Arts and Culture Sector: Discussion (23 Nov 2017)

Fintan Warfield: Yes, but it does not give a blank cheque. More than €60 million of public moneys is being delivered to the Arts Council so for the Minister to say she has no mandate contradicts the provision that "The Minister may, in relation to the performance by the Council of its functions ... give a direction in writing to the Council requiring it to comply with such policies of the Minister or...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs: Sexual Harassment in the Arts and Culture Sector: Discussion (23 Nov 2017)

Fintan Warfield: Yes.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs: Sexual Harassment in the Arts and Culture Sector: Discussion (23 Nov 2017)

Fintan Warfield: Only for the purposes of the four areas set out under section 24(1).

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs: Sexual Harassment in the Arts and Culture Sector: Discussion (23 Nov 2017)

Fintan Warfield: It is the artistic elements of this.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs: Sexual Harassment in the Arts and Culture Sector: Discussion (23 Nov 2017)

Fintan Warfield: The council is only independent in the performance of its functions under this section for the purposes of the four areas set out under section 24(1). They are to stimulate public interest in the arts, promote knowledge, improve standards in the arts and assist in the development of advancing the arts. None of those areas concerns the policy that surrounds the issue we are working on and...

Seanad: Order of Business (23 Nov 2017)

Fintan Warfield: I want to express my disbelief at the Government's decision to approve our involvement in the European Union's permanent structured co-operation, PESCO, at a recent Cabinet meeting. Involvement in PESCO is the biggest policy decision relating to the Defence Forces since Irish soldiers were first sent on UN duties in the 1960s. Article 29.4.9° of the Irish Constitution specifically...

Seanad: Student Universal Support Ireland: Statements (23 Nov 2017)

Fintan Warfield: I welcome the Minister of State to the House. I join my colleague, Senator Gavan, in thanking the committee for its work. I am glad to have the opportunity to join the discussion relating the third level maintenance grant. I commend the Wake-up SUSI campaign group and support its cause. The grant needs to be more robust. There have been ongoing issues with that grant since my time in...

Seanad: Order of Business (21 Nov 2017)

Fintan Warfield: I join colleagues in supporting the proposal by Senator Alice-Mary Higgins for a debate on the EU proposals for permanent structured co-operation on security and defence. Sinn Féin has always made clear that the Lisbon treaty has the potential to threaten our neutrality. I propose an amendment to the Order of Business such that No. 18 on today's Order of Business, Statistics (1926...

Seanad: Statistics (1926 Census Release) Bill 2017: First Stage (21 Nov 2017)

Fintan Warfield: I move:That leave be granted to introduce a Bill entitled an Act Bill entitled an Act to amend the Statistics Act 1993, in relation to the first census of the population of Ireland taken since the establishment of the State; to afford that census a special heritage status and to have such released to the public for genealogical, historical and other research.

Seanad: Statistics (1926 Census Release) Bill 2017: First Stage (21 Nov 2017)

Fintan Warfield: Next Tuesday.