Results 101-120 of 204 for long speaker:Fintan Warfield

Seanad: Affordable Housing Bill 2021: Report and Final Stages (18 Jun 2021)

Fintan Warfield: I still believe this undermines the long-term benefit of cost-rental. I am worried about the tenant who may have been in a property for 40 years. What will happen after that period?Will they face a market rent or, worse, eviction? Senator Higgins has spoken about international investors. There is no obligation on them to act in the interests of tenants, in contrast to AHBs. What will...

Seanad: Gender Pay Gap Information Bill 2021: Second Stage (14 Jun 2021)

Fintan Warfield: ...data for future policy formation. Women predominantly take on more unpaid work than men, such as caring and household work. Women reduce their hours at a higher rate than men and spend nearly 60% longer than men on unpaid work per week, according to an EU study.Implementing gender pay gap reporting will raise awareness among employers, employees, policymakers and the wider public. The...

Seanad: Affordable Housing Bill 2021: Committee Stage (Resumed) (4 Jun 2021)

Fintan Warfield: I move amendment No. 51: In page 15, to delete lines 5 to 7. The "long stop date" goes against the fundamental principles of affordable purchase or rent. If the initial equity is not recouped in 30 or 50 years, it effectively remains there as a charge for whenever the house is sold on. I would like to get the Minister of State's view on that. Is this amendment grouped with amendment No. 52?

Seanad: Right to Housing: Motion (4 Jun 2021)

Fintan Warfield: ...about meeting the needs of workers and families and fixing a catastrophic market failure, then we need to double capital investment from €1.4 billion to at least €2.8 billion. By public housing I mean social housing, affordable cost-rental, which Sinn Féin has long supported, and affordable cost-purchase, all on public land and delivered by local authorities, approved...

Seanad: Right to Housing: Motion (4 Jun 2021)

Fintan Warfield: ...Taoiseach gave a commitment in the Dáil on Wednesday to prevent that increase. However, let us be honest, we need to ban rent increases for three years because renters are being fleeced. Sinn Féin has long supported Home for Good and I commend its campaign. This Fianna Fáil motion calls for a right to housing to be inserted in the Constitution, but it is two years since...

Seanad: Right to Housing: Motion (4 Jun 2021)

Fintan Warfield: On a point of order, there is a long-standing tradition in this House that if a person is not here, he or she cannot be referred to.

Seanad: Right to Housing: Motion (4 Jun 2021)

Fintan Warfield: Nobody has sat here as long as I have.

Seanad: Young People: Motion (17 May 2021)

Fintan Warfield: .... There is a major supply issue in the context of volunteers and the funding is not there to run many important programmes. Our amendment also refers to the student contribution charge. It has been a long-held demand of the left that student fees be reduced. The charge involves no small sum. People are more impatient having seen what can be done in terms of how the State can respond to...

Seanad: Affordable Housing Bill 2021: Second Stage (17 May 2021)

Fintan Warfield: .... Will the Minister agree annual targets for the delivery of cost rental and affordable purchase homes with every local authority and approved housing bodies, co-operatives and community housing trusts? Sinn Féin has long argued for affordable and cost rental homes. We need 8,000 affordable homes every year, of which 4,000 should be cost rental and 4,000 affordable purchase. The...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (22 Mar 2021)

Fintan Warfield: Places such as the Pearse Museum in Rathfarnham and Kilmainham Jail in Dublin were long protected and saved by volunteers. Equally, the integrity of Moore Street has been maintained by street traders, working-class Dubliners and small business owners on that street. It has also been saved by campaigners and the relatives of the 1916 leaders. The men and women of Easter week restored our...

Seanad: Family Leave Bill 2021: Second Stage (12 Mar 2021)

Fintan Warfield: ...Minister on bringing this measure forward and giving it the priority it deserves. I did not come here to give a history lesson but to set out what happened because we need to learn the lessons of the past. Long after the photo shoots for marriage equality, people’s rights still need to be recognised and sometimes that costs money. Whether it is this issue or the ancillary...

Seanad: Councillors' Pay: Motion (22 Feb 2021)

Fintan Warfield: .... Unvouched expenses, meanwhile, affect people's confidence in the work our councillors, politicians and public representatives do and they should be scrapped altogether.Most other democratic systems have long-since gotten rid of unvouched expenses regimes. We have called for a basic rate of pay for full-time and part-time councillors and a fully vouched system of expenses for additional...

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Cultural Objects (12 Feb 2021)

Fintan Warfield: ...of a rolling or ongoing conversation in the museum sector and in the cultural space. It has often been discussed in wider society, particularly of late. I have followed these conversations as long as I have had an interest in the issue. I have raised it on a number of occasions in these Houses over the years. The Black Lives Matter movement and anti-racist protests have rightly shone a...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (16 Dec 2020)

Fintan Warfield: ...points stood out in that report. A shocking 45% of all notices of termination are issued because the landlord indicates his or her intention to sell the property. We need better legislation that protects long-term and even lifetime renters. It should be possible to sell properties with renters in situ. The lack of inspections of private rental properties by local authorities has reached...

Joint Committee on Media, Tourism, Arts, Culture, Sport and the Gaeltacht: Challenges facing Public Broadcasting and the broader Media Sector as a result of Covid-19: Discussion (16 Dec 2020)

Fintan Warfield: ...to address that issue of prominence and what needs to be done in that regard. Do we need legislation? My other question concerns linear programming. I asked the representatives from RTÉ for how long we might be scheduling linear television broadcasting. Mr. Farrell mentioned the staples of Virgin Media, such as Ireland AM. How will those programmes sit with players in the...

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Health Services Provision (1 Dec 2020)

Fintan Warfield: The Minister of State will appreciate that the HSE has been talking about staff recruitment for a long time. If he cannot answer it now, he can write to me. Who is responsible? Is it senior management in the HSE or CHO 6 which is responsible for GMHS reopening? Is the agency responsible committed to its prioritisation for its return? What is the actual update on Covid-19 recruitment?...

Seanad: Withdrawal of the United Kingdom from the European Union (Consequential Provisions) Bill 2020: Second Stage (1 Dec 2020)

Fintan Warfield: I welcome the Minister to the House. I want to address the change that was made in the Bill through the amendment in Dáil Éireann that refers to the long established zero or 1 cent threshold for tax back on purchases by citizens resident outside of the EU who then export the product or bring it home with them.They then export the product or bring it home with them. The Minister is...

Joint Committee on Media, Tourism, Arts, Culture, Sport and the Gaeltacht: Future of Public Service Broadcasting and Impact of Covid-19 on the Media Sector: Discussion (11 Nov 2020)

Fintan Warfield: Mr. Lynch mentioned the growth in online viewing figures. How long does he anticipate RTÉ will continue scheduling the traditional transmission of television programmes? Is RTÉ prepared for the associated fall-off in revenue when that ceases? I doubt that the RTÉ player makes much money. TG4 recently launched a really good player on the Apple TV app. I downloaded it this...

Seanad: Residential Tenancies Bill 2020: Committee and Remaining Stages (23 Oct 2020)

Fintan Warfield: ...and Heritage to continue to work to reduce the number of people in emergency accommodation. I assure Senators that Sinn Féin, if Senators agree to this measure, will work with them to provide a long-lasting solution to the rental crisis. This six-month period would allow all parties to contribute and the time-pressure of the pandemic would not hamper those efforts.

Seanad: Commission of Investigation (Mother and Baby Homes and certain related Matters) Records, and another Matter, Bill 2020: Second Stage (14 Oct 2020)

Fintan Warfield: ...records and testimonies are not locked away because when that happens we can never learn from the mistakes and injustices of the past. The public needs to know that the vast sums of money and long periods spent on the work of the commission impact positively on those who were so badly let down. The clear message that my colleagues and I are hearing is that the Bill does not meet that...