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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...

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

Fintan Warfield: Sinn Féin is very much of the view that the Online Safety and Media Regulation Bill should have clearly stated what the content levy would look like. If it had, perhaps we would be hearing that it would be the number one priority for the media commission. Our guests know the importance of that and I respect that. Sinn Féin brought forward an amendment to the Bill in the Seanad...

Seanad: Planning and Development and Foreshore (Amendment) Bill 2022: [Seanad Bill amended by the Dáil] Report and Final Stages (15 Dec 2022)

Fintan Warfield: I commend my colleague on her marathon speech on a marathon grouping of amendments. We only get one shot at Committee Stage and Senator Higgins took a pretty good shot. The last-minute amendments on social and affordable housing propose the suspension of the Part 8 process for up to two years. That option has been presented as a mechanism to speed up the delivery of social and affordable...

Seanad: Work Life Balance and Miscellaneous Provisions Bill 2022: Second Stage (14 Dec 2022)

Fintan Warfield: I welcome the Minister to the House. Covid-19 forced us to reimagine much of our lives, not least our work life balance. These hard-earned lessons should and must be part of our future approach to the issues around caring, disability, inclusivity, equality and workers rights and this Bill is a welcome step in that regard. While the Bill includes a number of important provisions for family...

Seanad: Appointment of Ordinary Members of An Coimisiún Toghcháin: Motion (14 Dec 2022)

Fintan Warfield: I call Senator Boyhan.

Seanad: Appointment of Ordinary Members of An Coimisiún Toghcháin: Motion (14 Dec 2022)

Fintan Warfield: If we have no other speakers I will take the opportunity from the Chair also to congratulate the selected members and to welcome the existence of the Electoral Commission. There is so much to do on electoral reform including widening the franchise for our younger people of 16 and 17 years of age and as Senator Kyne said making it easier for people to register to vote.

Seanad: Tailte Éireann Bill 2022: Committee and Remaining Stages (14 Dec 2022)

Fintan Warfield: I move amendment No. 1: In page 8, between lines 22 and 23, to insert the following: "(8) Within six months of the passing of this Act, the Minister shall lay before the Houses of the Oireachtas a report of a review into the digitization of the land registry including proposed reforms to expedite land disputes where the title deeds are currently unclear due to issues with historic or...

Seanad: Tailte Éireann Bill 2022: Committee and Remaining Stages (14 Dec 2022)

Fintan Warfield: I move amendment No. 2: In page 8, between lines 22 and 23, to insert the following: "(8) Within six months of the passing of this Act, the Minister shall lay before the Houses of the Oireachtas a report setting out further consideration by his Department and the Department of Justice on the transfer of responsibility for the Property Services Regulatory Authority to the Department of...

Seanad: Tailte Éireann Bill 2022: Committee and Remaining Stages (14 Dec 2022)

Fintan Warfield: I do not think I will convince the Minister of State. Nevertheless, I will press the amendment.