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Seanad: Online Safety and Media Regulation Bill 2022: Committee Stage (Resumed) (25 May 2022)

Fintan Warfield: I have not addressed the amendment.

Seanad: Online Safety and Media Regulation Bill 2022: Committee Stage (Resumed) (25 May 2022)

Fintan Warfield: I was away that day. I will withdraw and reserve the right to resubmit.

Seanad: Online Safety and Media Regulation Bill 2022: Committee Stage (Resumed) (25 May 2022)

Fintan Warfield: I acknowledge what the Minister and the Leader have said and I also accept their bona fides. I appreciate that Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth has work ongoing in this area around conversion practices. LGBT Ireland launched a campaign last week in the Museum of Literature Ireland on St. Stephen's Green. I commend it for its work in this area. I also...

Seanad: Online Safety and Media Regulation Bill 2022: Committee Stage (Resumed) (25 May 2022)

Fintan Warfield: I commend the Labour Party group for bringing forward the amendment. I am aware of the work done by former Deputy, Willie Penrose, in the area who brought forward an alternative Bill in the last term. We put it on the Order Paper because of the concerns about the quota and the impact of EU rules on defining Irish music. We copied the French example and focused specifically on Irish...

Seanad: Online Safety and Media Regulation Bill 2022: Committee Stage (Resumed) (25 May 2022)

Fintan Warfield: I am not sure about the procedure in terms of bringing something back on Report Stage when an amendment was ruled out of order because, essentially, it would not have been discussed. My amendment No. 73 was ruled out of order, which would have required the media commission to bring forward a report on some of these issues. I am not sure how I can bring that back on Report Stage but at the...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (24 May 2022)

Fintan Warfield: We learned yesterday about the obscene amount of wealth that has been accumulated by billionaires in this country and around the world since the Covid pandemic began. According to Oxfam, the wealth of the world's billionaires rose more in the past two years than it had in the previous 23 combined. In Ireland, billionaires have increased their worth by more than €15 billion since the...

Seanad: Birth Information and Tracing Bill 2022: Committee Stage (Resumed) (24 May 2022)

Fintan Warfield: The process does not get any easier, does it?

Seanad: Birth Information and Tracing Bill 2022: Committee Stage (Resumed) (24 May 2022)

Fintan Warfield: I move amendment No. 31: In page 15, between lines 8 and 9, to insert the following: “6. An tArd-Chláraitheoir shall on an application made by a relevant person, a record of whose birth is kept by An tArd-Chláraitheoir and who has reached the age of 16 years, supply to that person on payment of the prescribed fee (if any) such information as is necessary to enable that...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (19 May 2022)

Fintan Warfield: As ever.

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (19 May 2022)

Fintan Warfield: As are you, Senator Buttimer. I second Senator Sherlock's amendment to the Order of Business. As the Leader of the Seanad will know, the Joint Committee on Gender Equality met this morning to discuss the recommendations of the Citizens' Assembly on Gender Equality relating to norms and stereotypes and education. The Minister, Deputy Foley, addressed the committee and, while her opening...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Gender Equality: Recommendations of the Citizens’ Assembly on Gender Equality: Discussion (Resumed) (19 May 2022)

Fintan Warfield: I thank the Minister and the officials for joining us; they are welcome. I have reviewed both the second national strategy on domestic, sexual and gender-based violence, DSGBV, and the 2017 national strategy for women and girls and neither make any reference to relationship and sexuality or education. What work has the Department undertaken on or contributed to the third national strategy,...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Gender Equality: Recommendations of the Citizens’ Assembly on Gender Equality: Discussion (Resumed) (19 May 2022)

Fintan Warfield: I have a few other questions so I can put them now if the Chair wishes me to do so.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Gender Equality: Recommendations of the Citizens’ Assembly on Gender Equality: Discussion (Resumed) (19 May 2022)

Fintan Warfield: My concern is we will see improvement only in certain schools. We have known for so long that this is an issue.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Gender Equality: Recommendations of the Citizens’ Assembly on Gender Equality: Discussion (Resumed) (19 May 2022)

Fintan Warfield: It is particularly upsetting that we are still here. People are tired and wondering if we will ever see a standardised curriculum across all schools so students can have an equality of opportunity to access inclusive sex education, for example. There is a reason the programme for Government makes a specific reference to LGBTI relationships and making legislative change, if necessary.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Gender Equality: Recommendations of the Citizens’ Assembly on Gender Equality: Discussion (Resumed) (19 May 2022)

Fintan Warfield: With all the reviews the National Council for Curriculum and Assessment is doing good work. I know the junior cycle review is to be published soon. We could have all these reviews and improvements, however, and still have loopholes that deny the education required for gender-diverse and young people who have same-sex attractions. Does the Minister envisage a need to use that element in the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Gender Equality: Recommendations of the Citizens’ Assembly on Gender Equality: Discussion (Resumed) (19 May 2022)

Fintan Warfield: I was not expecting to go first. The written submissions provided by our guests, which I read yesterday, are excellent. I am particularly interested in the idea of giving students a chance to try subjects at primary level. Are our guests suggesting that secondary schools be used as a place for primary school students to try woodwork, home economics or engineering?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Gender Equality: Recommendations of the Citizens’ Assembly on Gender Equality: Discussion (Resumed) (19 May 2022)

Fintan Warfield: I did art, woodwork and music in school. I did as many practical courses as possible. The idea of having a discussion on the theory side of the class about who is not there is revolutionary and has never occurred to me. I wholly support that. I commend the witnesses for introducing class to the discussion. We will reflect on that for our report.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Gender Equality: Recommendations of the Citizens’ Assembly on Gender Equality: Discussion (Resumed) (19 May 2022)

Fintan Warfield: The Minister's opening statement paints a positive picture of the curriculum for early years' students and for those at post-primary level. It states that its core values are equality, inclusivity and diversity and that it must cater equally for all learners from all backgrounds regardless of gender, socioeconomic background, race or creed. That paints a positive picture of the situation...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (18 May 2022)

Fintan Warfield: I reiterate my support for the programme for Government commitment to ban so-called conversion therapies. The commitment followed legislation in the Seanad that I proposed in 2018. The Bill remains on the Order Paper today. Yesterday, at the Museum of Literature Ireland on St. Stephen's Green, LGBT Ireland launched a campaign to ban conversion practices. The Minister for Children,...