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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: I have sat here all day.

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

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

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

Fintan Warfield: Many of them-----

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

Fintan Warfield: Many Fianna Fáil Senators come in for five minutes.

Joint Committee on Media, Tourism, Arts, Culture, Sport and the Gaeltacht: General Scheme of the Online Safety and Media Regulation Bill 2020: Discussion (Resumed) (2 Jun 2021)

Fintan Warfield: I thank all our guests for their contributions. They have been very informative and helpful. I know the Connemara film-maker Bob Quinn always fought against ads during children's programming while he was on the RTÉ Authority. Are any of the guests aware of the breakdown of time during which children and young people see these ads when we compare online and traditional media? If it is...

Joint Committee on Media, Tourism, Arts, Culture, Sport and the Gaeltacht: General Scheme of the Online Safety and Media Regulation Bill 2020: Discussion (Resumed) (2 Jun 2021)

Fintan Warfield: Body image would be one of the main ones.

Joint Committee on Media, Tourism, Arts, Culture, Sport and the Gaeltacht: General Scheme of the Online Safety and Media Regulation Bill 2020: Discussion (Resumed) (2 Jun 2021)

Fintan Warfield: In the context of children's advertising, are we talking about advertising that relates to clothing and school necessities as well as toys?

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (1 Jun 2021)

Fintan Warfield: I thank all Senators who facilitated the passing of Senator Boylan's Bill on Second Stage last night. The Bill seeks to remove the discriminatory policy of treating housing assistance payment, HAP, as income for people applying for civil legal aid. The Bill forced the hand of the Government and I commend Senator Boylan on introducing it. It will ensure that survivors of domestic abuse will...

Seanad: Affordable Housing Bill 2021: Committee Stage (Resumed) (31 May 2021)

Fintan Warfield: I reiterate the point we made last week and Senator Moynihan has made, namely, public private partnerships are inherently bad value for money. Successive Governments have seemed wedded to the policy but in schemes where we are trying to keep costs as low as possible, we need to avoid such partnerships. I will be pushing this amendment.

Seanad: Civil Legal Aid (Exclusion of Value of Free or Partly Free Board) (Amendment) Bill 2021: Second Stage (31 May 2021)

Fintan Warfield: I move: "That the Bill be now read a Second Time." I commend Senator Lynn Boylan on bringing forward this important Bill. She has been a constant champion for social justice and equality, whether through her lifelong activism, her contribution on behalf of Dubliners in the European Parliament - where she led the negotiations in respect of the right to water report - relentlessly campaigning...

Seanad: Affordable Housing Bill 2021: Committee Stage (28 May 2021)

Fintan Warfield: I welcome the Minister of State to the House. I understand that the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage, Deputy Darragh O’Brien, has informed the House that he will be here at some point today. I also look forward to that but in the meantime, I welcome the Minister of State and look forward to positive engagement with him. Good ideas come from this side of the House....

Seanad: Affordable Housing Bill 2021: Committee Stage (28 May 2021)

Fintan Warfield: I move amendment No. 3: In page 8, to delete line 4. This amendment relates to the reference in this section to the open market. I addressed this aspect in my earlier contribution, when I spoke about how this proposed affordable housing scheme could be used to help people purchase houses at massively inflated prices. I identified a case earlier involving friends that I spoke to...

Seanad: Affordable Housing Bill 2021: Committee Stage (28 May 2021)

Fintan Warfield: One of my colleagues stated that Sinn Féin opposed developments on lands in Donabate and Fingal. We fully support the development of homes on the site in Fingal. We do not support sweetheart deals for developers and the sale of public land for private developments that are far beyond the reach of ordinary working people. The Government should fund the council to develop that site.

Seanad: Affordable Housing Bill 2021: Committee Stage (28 May 2021)

Fintan Warfield: Sixty per cent.

Seanad: Affordable Housing Bill 2021: Committee Stage (28 May 2021)

Fintan Warfield: Again, Donabate was mentioned. A total of 60% of the new homes that will be sold on the site there will be sold at unaffordable prices way above €400,000. That is the deal we are getting in respect of houses built on public land.

Seanad: Affordable Housing Bill 2021: Committee Stage (28 May 2021)

Fintan Warfield: That is a bad deal.

Seanad: Affordable Housing Bill 2021: Committee Stage (28 May 2021)

Fintan Warfield: It is a good deal for private developers and a bad on for working people. The Minister of State mentioned the LDA. It runs the risk of making matters even more difficult for the working people that we have mentioned to access genuinely affordable homes. I will be pressing amendment No. 3.

Seanad: Affordable Housing Bill 2021: Committee Stage (28 May 2021)

Fintan Warfield: I move amendment No. 4: In page 8, between lines 12 and 13, to insert the following: “(b) arrangements with co-operatives, community housing trusts and other not for profit bodies.”. Section 6 is about the provision of dwellings by housing authorities. It states: A housing authority may make dwellings available for the purpose of sale to eligible applicants under...

Seanad: Affordable Housing Bill 2021: Committee Stage (28 May 2021)

Fintan Warfield: I would like to push the amendment.