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Seanad: Birth Information and Tracing Bill 2022: Committee Stage (Resumed) (1 Jun 2022)

Fintan Warfield: I move amendment No. 41: In page 18, between lines 3 and 4, to insert the following: “9.A relevant body shall on an application by a relevant person who has reached the age of 16 years supply to that person all personal data relating to the relevant person.”.

Seanad: Birth Information and Tracing Bill 2022: Committee Stage (Resumed) (1 Jun 2022)

Fintan Warfield: I appreciate the expertise of committee members and of Senator Seery Kearney in this area. I do not have much more to add to what Senators Ruane and Moynihan have said already except to say that Sinn Féin supports their amendments. We oppose this section outright and may do so at the end of this discussion if those amendments are not accepted. I want to acknowledge that the Minister...

Seanad: National Maternity Hospital and Women's Health Action Plan: Statements (1 Jun 2022)

Fintan Warfield: I welcome the Minister to the House and I commend him on the publication of the women's health action plan. I wish to raise two issues. The first is the issue of free contraception for women aged 17 to 25. The Government has repeatedly said that programme will commence in August and I want to ask about that. We are just a couple of months out from that roll-out and I hope the Minister...

Joint Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media: Departmental Priorities and Legislation: Discussion (1 Jun 2022)

Fintan Warfield: I welcome the Minister and her officials to the committee and I commend her on for the €25 million basic income pilot, which would be a game changer in the arts. There are concerns in the community about what some call a de facto exclusion of artists with disabilities insofar as the scheme may put someone at risk of having their other supports cut. Can the Minister make some...

Joint Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media: Departmental Priorities and Legislation: Discussion (1 Jun 2022)

Fintan Warfield: Would the Minister consider in her budget allocations a specific ring-fenced allocation to RTÉ for the development of the RTÉ Player?

Joint Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media: Departmental Priorities and Legislation: Discussion (1 Jun 2022)

Fintan Warfield: I believe so. We have given RTÉ lump sums or allocations before. It is a shame to see money going into productions like "Normal People" or RTÉ productions and for them to be poorly delivered online.

Joint Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media: Departmental Priorities and Legislation: Discussion (1 Jun 2022)

Fintan Warfield: When Ms Dee Forbes and the chair of RTÉ appeared before the committee, they said it would take several million euro to get the RTÉ Player to where it needs to be. It is an access issue, as well. If you are watching Netflix on a poor broadband connection, the Netflix app will adapt to that. This is an access issue for people across the country, who do not have access to good...

Joint Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media: A Safe and Respectful Working Environment in the Arts: Discussion (Resumed) (1 Jun 2022)

Fintan Warfield: I thank the Minister and her officials for staying with us to discuss this. I commend the Irish Theatre Institute, the Arts Council and the Department for helping to bring this report together and Jane Daly and Siobhán Burke, who worked on the report. When they were before the committee they said that just after this report was launched, another was launched by, I think, the Law...

Joint Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media: A Safe and Respectful Working Environment in the Arts: Discussion (Resumed) (1 Jun 2022)

Fintan Warfield: I call on musicians and men in the arts and culture to come out and support these issues, support their female colleagues who have told their stories and to show solidarity there. One of the things in the report is that strong and committed leadership is needed. I call on men in the industry to come out and show their support.

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Culture Policy (31 May 2022)

Fintan Warfield: I welcome the Minister of State to the House. I am grateful to the Seanad Office and the office of the Cathaoirleach for selecting this Commencement matter. It follows on from the Commencement matter I tabled last week in respect of Project Ireland 2040 and the capital plan for national cultural institutions. Cruinniú na nÓg will take place on Saturday, 11 June. It is an...

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Culture Policy (31 May 2022)

Fintan Warfield: Creative Ireland has been very good at bringing people around the table and bringing stakeholders together. The statement the Minister of State has made is very helpful for my own information. I will analyse it. There is undoubted success from the Creative Youth programme. I look forward to meeting with more facilitators, artists and schools that have taken part to get their sense of...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (31 May 2022)

Fintan Warfield: I will speak briefly in support of Senator Flynn. I attended the Traveller protest outside with many of our colleagues and it is time we stop fobbing off members of the Traveller community with committees and reports. I served on the committee examining key issues affecting the Traveller community in a previous parliamentary term but we must get the party leaders around the table to start...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (31 May 2022)

Fintan Warfield: Hear, hear.

Seanad: Regulation of Providers of Building Works and Building Control (Amendment) Bill 2022 : Committee Stage (31 May 2022)

Fintan Warfield: I move amendment No. 8: "In page 12, to delete lines 15 and 16 and substitute the following: "(4) The Minister shall appoint the National Building Control Office as the registration body under subsection (2):"." I raised this issue on Second Stage so the Minister will be aware of it. The construction industry register is currently located on a voluntary basis in the head office of the...

Seanad: Regulation of Providers of Building Works and Building Control (Amendment) Bill 2022 : Committee Stage (31 May 2022)

Fintan Warfield: I do not think the Government ever advanced the idea of a statutory register as proposed originally by Law Reform Commission. To this day, we are still looking at a register that is located within the industry. If the Minister envisages that will be the Construction Industry Federation and the Bill is designed in such a way that it will be the Construction Industry Federation, it is ironic...

Seanad: Regulation of Providers of Building Works and Building Control (Amendment) Bill 2022 : Committee Stage (31 May 2022)

Fintan Warfield: I move amendment No. 12: In page 14, line 8, after "person" to insert "through the Public Appointments Service". This amendment relates to the appointments made by the Minister. My party would like the appointments to be made through the Public Appointments Service, which should be used in every single case. That is all I will say on this section.

Seanad: Regulation of Providers of Building Works and Building Control (Amendment) Bill 2022 : Committee Stage (31 May 2022)

Fintan Warfield: On the issue of compensation, there is a register and a set of criteria that a provider must meet to get on the register. For example, if a registered provider is messing and a complaint is made to the registration authority, the provider can perhaps be sanctioned or struck off the register, but that is no good for redress. There should be compensation for the remediation of works. We...

Seanad: Online Safety and Media Regulation Bill 2022: Committee Stage (Resumed) (31 May 2022)

Fintan Warfield: I move amendment No. 208: In page 129, to delete lines 38 and 39, and in page 130, to delete lines 1 to 7 and substitute the following: “159E. (1) The Commission shall no later than 1st January 2023 and for the purposes of funding a scheme made under section 159F, make an order imposing a levy on the media service providers referred to in subsection (2) of not less than 3 per...