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Seanad: Heritage Bill 2016: Committee Stage (Resumed) (17 Nov 2016)

Fintan Warfield: I welcome the fact that Senator O'Reilly referenced the fact that we are national representatives. This is a good opportunity to make the case that the urban-rural divide in this debate is problematic. Senator Black mentioned her joy in travelling across Ireland and I can attest to that having returned from Killarney at all hours of the morning and having travelled to many parts of this...

Seanad: Heritage Bill 2016: Committee Stage (9 Nov 2016)

Fintan Warfield: Sinn Féin holds a deep appreciation for the value of the natural, educational and cultural importance of hedgerows. They link our archaeological, geological, social and natural heritage. They are a utility in the present but mark the past and their values are multifunctional in both practical and spiritual forms. They enrich our understanding of history, ecology, rural society and...

Seanad: Protection of Cultural Property in the Event of Armed Conflict (Hague Convention) Bill 2016: Second Stage (27 Oct 2016)

Fintan Warfield: Our cultural institutions and buildings embody where we have come from as a society and what previous generations have projected to shape society. In turn, those institutions shape who we are today. When one considers our culture and cultural buildings, one does not have to look further than this House and the surrounding campus to view buildings that house cultural activity. It often...

Seanad: Order of Business (20 Oct 2016)

Fintan Warfield: I commend the Union of Students in Ireland, USI, and the thousands of students who took ownership of the streets of this city yesterday. Their message was loud and clear - they do not want to see student fees being introduced and neither do their parents. The State and this society cannot afford them. We have seen the disastrous impact of student loans in every country in which they have...

Seanad: Children and Youth Affairs: Statements (18 Oct 2016)

Fintan Warfield: I welcome the Minister. I wish to deal specifically with issues affecting the LGBTQI community, young people in particular. In June, during the Dublin Pride weekend, the Minister's Department announced that it would lead the development of Ireland's first national LGBT strategy for young people. A more suitable weekend could not have been found. The LGBT Ireland report identified the very...

Seanad: Seanad Bill 2016: Second Stage (Resumed) (12 Oct 2016)

Fintan Warfield: My first memory of the Seanad was as a child. Long after the fanfare of general elections and posters, my best friend's house across the road would be flooded with election literature for the Seanad. I often wondered, and asked, why it was absent from our letter-box. Obviously, my father went to work at Guinness at the age of 15 and did not go to college. Neither did my mother. Young...

Seanad: Rent Certainty (No. 2) Bill 2016: Second Stage (12 Oct 2016)

Fintan Warfield: Senator Jerry Buttimer spoke about how we in the Chamber can all share stories about the housing crisis. I certainly would not make apologies - I would not expect him to either - for expressing the needs and concerns of those most marginalised. Sinn Féin is in government in the North and works at local government level too. One of the first events at which I met Senator Paudie Coffey...

Seanad: Budget 2017: Statements (11 Oct 2016)

Fintan Warfield: As a young person I listened with interest to the issues concerning people in my age group today, one in six of whom have left Ireland and many more of whom remain on social welfare payments. Today with the changes to the jobseeker's rate the Government continued a policy of age discrimination, which is a shameful indictment of this Government's attitude to our young people. Young people...

Seanad: Order of Business (6 Oct 2016)

Fintan Warfield: Members will join me in expressing sympathy and extending condolences to the victims of Hurricane Matthew which is moving over the Bahamas causing flooding, rain and destructive winds as we speak. According to reports late last evening, the death toll in the Caribbean rose to 26 - four people reportedly died in the Dominican Republic and 22 were killed in Haiti. I understand that the...

Seanad: Order of Business (4 Oct 2016)

Fintan Warfield: We have yet to welcome the Minister for Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs, Deputy Humphreys, to this House. We are now days out from budget 2017. I ask that following the budget announcement next week, the Minister, Deputy Humphreys, brief this Chamber on the work of her Department and answer questions in that regard. I raise this issue in the context of previous...

Seanad: Order of Business (29 Sep 2016)

Fintan Warfield: I second Senator Nash's proposal.

Seanad: Order of Business (29 Sep 2016)

Fintan Warfield: This week, I joined IMPACT library staff in Dún Laoghaire's Lexicon library who were expressing their opposition to a council management decision to proceed with the policy of unstaffed libraries. I accept that HR matters are matters that concern council management, but at a time when our public library service is being eroded, libraries are being closed and a policy of staffless...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Regional Development, Rural Affairs, Arts and the Gaeltacht: Irish Film Board: Chairperson Designate (28 Sep 2016)

Fintan Warfield: Gabhaim mo bhuíochas leis na finnéithe agus cuirim fáilte roimh gach duine anseo. I had the pleasure of studying film and television production in GMIT in Galway. Those three years outside Dublin gave me an insight into the need for a greater regional spread. When I continued to wake up to the Dublin traffic report, it felt like I was still at home. Funding is the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Regional Development, Rural Affairs, Arts and the Gaeltacht: Irish Film Board: Chairperson Designate (28 Sep 2016)

Fintan Warfield: Regarding access to the national cultural institutions, Ms Heaney mentioned Mayo. Is there greater scope in this regard if funding is provided?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Regional Development, Rural Affairs, Arts and the Gaeltacht: Estimates for Public Services 2016: Vote 33 - Department of Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs (28 Sep 2016)

Fintan Warfield: My questions are in much the same vein. We concluded the section of the programme areas of arts, culture and film with a discussion around the centenary programme. Various arts representative groups have called for those equivalent moneys to be maintained. Is the Minister conscious of that call? Is it a call she identified with and has she asked the Departments of Public Expenditure and...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Regional Development, Rural Affairs, Arts and the Gaeltacht: Culture 2025 - Éire Ildánach: a Framework Policy to 2025 and Related Matters: Discussion (7 Sep 2016)

Fintan Warfield: I welcome the witnesses and the publication of the culture 2025 framework policy document. It is somewhat devoid of practical points in respect of artists' experience. For five years I performed here and in the United States as a musician and I studied film and television production in Galway. I am particularly disappointed that the opening paragraph by the Minister does not even recognise...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Regional Development, Rural Affairs, Arts and the Gaeltacht: Culture 2025 - Éire Ildánach: a Framework Policy to 2025 and Related Matters: Discussion (7 Sep 2016)

Fintan Warfield: What is the status of the proposal on volunteering for the rapporteur's report?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Regional Development, Rural Affairs, Arts and the Gaeltacht: Culture 2025 - Éire Ildánach: a Framework Policy to 2025 and Related Matters: Discussion (7 Sep 2016)

Fintan Warfield: Sound.

Seanad: Order of Business (20 Jul 2016)

Fintan Warfield: A vibrant economy and open healthy democracy depends on a diverse, enriched, creative and cultural atmosphere. Ms Jane Daly, the programme manager for Galway 2020, has said with confidence that the award to Galway of the European City of Culture is for the city and county of Galway and that the most extraordinary capital of culture that Europe has ever seen will be delivered by the city.In...

Seanad: Order of Business (20 Jul 2016)

Fintan Warfield: The Irish Film Board, which is based in Galway, has had its budget cut by 50% since 2008. We have a real opportunity to match the Danish model and build a real indigenous film and television industry despite that 50% cut. To date, the Minister, Deputy Heather Humphreys, has not come to the Chamber to debate the arts. I respectfully ask the Leader to consider asking her to come before us at...