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Seanad: Higher Education Authority Bill 2022: Committee Stage (Resumed) (6 Jul 2022)

Fintan Warfield: I support amendments Nos. 6 and 7, which relate to students' unions, as well as amendment No. 206, relating to trade union representation. We will never get to the amendments Sinn Féin has tabled but we have a similar amendment, No. 117, on trade union membership on the board of the HEA. Amendments Nos. 206 and 117 relate to academic and non-academic staff, respectively. The absence...

Seanad: Higher Education Authority Bill 2022: Committee Stage (Resumed) (6 Jul 2022)

Fintan Warfield: They must be tight on numbers over in that House.

Seanad: Higher Education Authority Bill 2022: Committee Stage (Resumed) (6 Jul 2022)

Fintan Warfield: It is time for a general election.

Seanad: Regulation of Providers of Building Works and Building Control (Amendment) Bill 2022: Report and Final Stages (23 Jun 2022)

Fintan Warfield: I also welcome these amendments. I suspect that they are probably in response to the increasing numbers of people getting notices to quit. It is welcome that notice periods are being extended but it will only delay people presenting as homeless; it will not stop notices to quit. For those reasons it is probably right that I articulate that we need to put a month's rent back into people's...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (23 Jun 2022)

Fintan Warfield: I wish everyone a happy Pride. This year is our first year on the streets since the pandemic so we are looking forward to sharing our love with the city and asserting our right and freedom to be public in this country. It is a protest so we will march and make demands for healthy conversations we approach with sensitivity, respect and a meaningful voice, conversations that affect our lives...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (22 Jun 2022)

Fintan Warfield: It is mad that Senator Dolan mentioned a festival. I was planning to commend all those who organise festivals throughout the country.

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (22 Jun 2022)

Fintan Warfield: I had the pleasure of being at Body & Soul at the weekend and seeing Kneecap, Róisín Murphy, CMAT, Fynch and Mango. I commend the organisers, such as Avril Stanley, and all the folks who make it possible. These events are really important for people's resilience. People come together for artists. I refer to the amount of curation that happened at the weekend. They are...

Seanad: Consumer Credit (Amendment) Bill 2022: Committee and Remaining Stages (22 Jun 2022)

Fintan Warfield: I move amendment No. 1: In page 9, to delete lines 29 to 35, and in page 10, to delete lines 1 to 10 and substitute the following: “(2) (a) The Minister shall prescribe in respect of a loan (other than a running account) under a high cost credit agreement— (i) the maximum rate of simple interest chargeable per week (being a rate less than or equal to 0.75 per cent), and...

Seanad: Consumer Credit (Amendment) Bill 2022: Committee and Remaining Stages (22 Jun 2022)

Fintan Warfield: I thank the Minister of State for his lengthy response. The interest rate restriction that we have proposed in this amendment is one that the moneylending sector can bear as it moves towards a more digitised and professional business model through which its labour costs are reduced. Our amendment ensures that the total cost of credit that a moneylender can charge would reduce from six to...

Seanad: Neurology Nurses: Motion (22 Jun 2022)

Fintan Warfield: I will share time with Senator Buttimer if he would like.

Seanad: Neurology Nurses: Motion (22 Jun 2022)

Fintan Warfield: I thank Senator Boyhan and the Seanad Independent Group for bringing forward this Private Members' motion. Sinn Féin is very happy to support it. It is relevant to every county and to most hospitals.I commend Senator Boyhan on using this Private Members' business to move this motion. I will use my contribution to call on the Minister for Health, the Minister of State, Deputy Feighan,...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (21 Jun 2022)

Fintan Warfield: I welcome the Government's commitment to a HIV and AIDS national monument. The Department of the Taoiseach and the Office of Public Works have announced a competition for the monument. I commend the Government on backing the campaign that has been under way for almost a decade. Since the beginning of the AIDS epidemic, more than 70 million people around the world have acquired the...

Seanad: Electoral Reform Bill 2022: Second Stage (21 Jun 2022)

Fintan Warfield: The Senator would want to look at the invite.

Seanad: Electoral Reform Bill 2022: Second Stage (21 Jun 2022)

Fintan Warfield: The invite mentioned the general secretary or a nominated person.

Seanad: Electoral Reform Bill 2022: Second Stage (21 Jun 2022)

Fintan Warfield: I have to correct the record.

Seanad: Electoral Reform Bill 2022: Second Stage (21 Jun 2022)

Fintan Warfield: I just had to correct the record.

Seanad: Electoral Reform Bill 2022: Second Stage (21 Jun 2022)

Fintan Warfield: I have forgotten what I was talking about at this stage.

Seanad: Electoral Reform Bill 2022: Second Stage (21 Jun 2022)

Fintan Warfield: I welcome the Minister of State to the House. We can only achieve a thriving democracy when all of society has a stake in the process. I want to focus on widening the franchise. This House has done considerable work on seeking to lower the voting age to 16. We have retabled the Electoral (Amendment) (Voting at 16) Bill in this term. We were joined in that campaign by Senator Malcolm...

Seanad: Planning and Development (Built Heritage Protection) Bill 2022: Second Stage (16 Jun 2022)

Fintan Warfield: I commend Senator Norris and the Independent Group on bringing forward the Bill. I also welcome the Minister of State to the House. I will make a couple of points. I have been a member of the culture committee for years and heritage was taken away from us by the Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage. I welcome the increases that have been given to the Heritage Council by...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Gender Equality: Recommendations of the Report of the Citizens’ Assembly on Gender Equality: Discussion (Resumed) (16 Jun 2022)

Fintan Warfield: I thank the witnesses for their very informative statements and contributions so far. The discussion has probably progressed a bit but I have a question for Professor Lynch. She made the intervention at the beginning about commercialisation and how that alters the terms of the debate around care by defining it as a product and so on. Is that creeping commercialisation of care a kind of...