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Joint Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media: Future Business Model Plans and Long-term Vision for the Media Sector: Discussion (Resumed) (1 Feb 2023)

Fintan Warfield: A couple of advisory panels were set up. Our colleague Senator Malcolm Byrne, who could not be here today, pushed hard for a youth advisory panel. The National Youth Council of Ireland welcomed that. On Ms Chadamoyo Makombe's point, I listen to BBC's Radio 1Xtra as well for a bit of dubstep that I cannot get on RTÉ. Her point about the possibility Internet radio presents for more...

Seanad: Work Life Balance and Miscellaneous Provisions Bill 2022: Committee Stage (31 Jan 2023)

Fintan Warfield: I move amendment No. 2: In page 8, line 8, to delete "26 weeks" and substitute "one week". I welcome the Minister to the House. Many groups that made a recommendation to the Joint Committee on Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth on the Bill recommended the removal of the six-month employment eligibility criterion. It is our view that this will negatively affect lone...

Seanad: Work Life Balance and Miscellaneous Provisions Bill 2022: Committee Stage (31 Jan 2023)

Fintan Warfield: I propose to withdraw the amendment. I reserve the right to resubmit it.

Seanad: Work Life Balance and Miscellaneous Provisions Bill 2022: Committee Stage (31 Jan 2023)

Fintan Warfield: I move amendment No. 4: In page 9, line 14, to delete “5 days” and substitute “10 days”. I invite the Minister to provide the Department's response on the amendment. I am a bit confused after the previous amendment.

Seanad: Work Life Balance and Miscellaneous Provisions Bill 2022: Committee Stage (31 Jan 2023)

Fintan Warfield: I thank the Minister. I apologise for my confusion there for a hot second. I raised this issue with the Taoiseach at the Oireachtas Joint Committee on Gender Equality. We have consistently made the point that many companies provide more than five days' leave. In the North, there is more than five days' leave. We thought the Government should go further. I will press the amendment. I...

Seanad: Work Life Balance and Miscellaneous Provisions Bill 2022: Committee Stage (31 Jan 2023)

Fintan Warfield: I move amendment No. 5: In page 9, to delete lines 36 to 39, and in page 10, to delete lines 1 to 7. The amendment relates to the requirement for a worker to obtain a medical certificate for a third party, which is overly restrictive and places an additional and unreasonable cost burden on parents, particularly lone parents and low-income workers, especially when coupled with the unpaid...

Seanad: Work Life Balance and Miscellaneous Provisions Bill 2022: Committee Stage (31 Jan 2023)

Fintan Warfield: Are we discussing section 7?

Seanad: Work Life Balance and Miscellaneous Provisions Bill 2022: Committee Stage (31 Jan 2023)

Fintan Warfield: I risk being slightly repetitive. As Women's Aid noted, during the Second Stage debate in the Seanad, the Minister stated the Government is looking at parity of pay for domestic violence leave with sick pay. As my Labour Party colleague just pointed out, the proposal is modelled on the Sick Leave Act 2022 among others and is in line with the proposal by the Minister's Department. The...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: General Scheme of the Sale of Alcohol Bill 2022: Discussion (Resumed) (31 Jan 2023)

Fintan Warfield: What I see as important regarding having venues open later from a health perspective is that pubs and nightclubs are regulated environments. In my experience, people are not going home at 12.30 a.m. or 2.30 a.m. They are going to illegal, unregulated parties all across the city and to house parties as well. It is anecdotal, in fairness, but I feel that people are drinking more in house...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: General Scheme of the Sale of Alcohol Bill 2022: Discussion (Resumed) (31 Jan 2023)

Fintan Warfield: I want to make the point that we are talking about a very small number of venues that will open and serve alcohol until 5 a.m. I would say that only a handful of venues in this city will avail of this. I have spoken to some promoters who cannot see how it would even be financially viable to open until that hour at the current time. For nightclubs, this is their best opportunity to put...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: General Scheme of the Sale of Alcohol Bill 2022: Discussion (Resumed) (31 Jan 2023)

Fintan Warfield: If one was to ask a promoter if it could open for that long, a promoter would probably ask how it could afford to keep staff on the payroll, behind the bar and in security, and the artists on the stage. How could the promoter afford to do that with regard to the income stream?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: General Scheme of the Sale of Alcohol Bill 2022: Discussion (Resumed) (31 Jan 2023)

Fintan Warfield: I suspect a promoter or a venue operator would ask how it would pay all those people in the absence of an income stream from the bar.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: General Scheme of the Sale of Alcohol Bill 2022: Discussion (Resumed) (31 Jan 2023)

Fintan Warfield: They will do both.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: General Scheme of the Sale of Alcohol Bill 2022: Discussion (Resumed) (31 Jan 2023)

Fintan Warfield: A music licence and a dance licence are required as well. It is a very complex system of licences layered up, and hence this legislation.

Seanad: National Cultural Institutions (National Concert Hall) (Amendment) Bill 2022: Second Stage (24 Jan 2023)

Fintan Warfield: The best gig I was ever at in the National Concert Hall was Frances Black - I am serious about that. I welcome the Minister to the House. It was a pleasure recently to visit Robert Read and the team in the National Concert Hall and to get a tour of the site. There is so much potential there, particularly for the secondary venue in addition to the main auditorium. It is the type of size...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: General Scheme of the Sale of Alcohol Bill 2022: Discussion (24 Jan 2023)

Fintan Warfield: I thank the witnesses. I will ask about the cultural amenities licence. Give Us the Night believes it should be scrapped. From a reading of the proposed new cultural amenities licence, in the absence of a national cultural institutions licence, would events such as the Haunted Dancehall in the National Concert Hall and events that have been taking place in the National Museum of Ireland be...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: General Scheme of the Sale of Alcohol Bill 2022: Discussion (24 Jan 2023)

Fintan Warfield: I have a question for the vinters. Do they accept that there are people who are itching to get into their industry who are opening coffee trucks and cafés all across the country? People my age are opening cafés and are itching to get into hospitality - the vintners' industry, which is losing members - and cannot do so because of how much a seven-day licence costs. That system...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: General Scheme of the Sale of Alcohol Bill 2022: Discussion (24 Jan 2023)

Fintan Warfield: How many theatre licences were there at that time?

Joint Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media: Future of the Media Sector: Discussion (18 Jan 2023)

Fintan Warfield: We are being very generous in giving ourselves eight minutes. I probably will not use all my time. I welcome all the witnesses and thank them for their presentations. My first question is for the ard-stiúrthóir of TG4. What needs to be done to support the audiovisual sector in the regions? On the same point, will the Screen Ireland delegates comment on their support for the...