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Joint Committee on Media, Tourism, Arts, Culture, Sport and the Gaeltacht: General Scheme of the Online Safety and Media Regulation Bill 2020: Discussion (Resumed) (19 May 2021)

Fintan Warfield: Do I have time for one more question?

Joint Committee on Media, Tourism, Arts, Culture, Sport and the Gaeltacht: General Scheme of the Online Safety and Media Regulation Bill 2020: Discussion (Resumed) (19 May 2021)

Fintan Warfield: I will address the following question to whichever of the witnesses wishes to respond. The future commission may want to standardise the transparency reporting of social media companies and could ask for the reports to be in the form national reports or state reports. Currently, the companies publish these statistics in the manner in which they wish. Would our guests welcome a standardised...

Seanad: Young People: Motion (17 May 2021)

Fintan Warfield: I wish to move amendments Nos. 1 and 5, if that is in order.

Seanad: Young People: Motion (17 May 2021)

Fintan Warfield: I will come to them. I am quite supportive of Senator Boyhan's comments regarding the need for the Government to take on board the amendments. When dealing with a youth motion, where does one start and where does one stop in the context of what we could have put in and what we left out? Every issue that goes through these Houses is relevant to young people. I will speak later about the...

Seanad: Young People: Motion (17 May 2021)

Fintan Warfield: I move amendment No. 5: To insert the following paragraphs after “calls on the Government to:” “- increase investment in youth work services to meet the needs of a growing youth population, noting that funding for youth work is still 8.5% below 2008 levels, and to invest an additional €10 million to assist voluntary youth organisations to support young people,...

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

Fintan Warfield: Fine Gael has been in government for a decade and Fianna Fáil has supported it for half of that. We were always told, as we have been tonight, that solving the housing issue was going to take time. Even I believed that for a while. It takes time for anyone to build a house. The crisis has become worse as the years have gone by and a decade later, the housing crisis has become an...

Joint Committee on Media, Tourism, Arts, Culture, Sport and the Gaeltacht: General Scheme of the Online Safety and Media Regulation Bill 2020: Discussion (Resumed) (13 May 2021)

Fintan Warfield: All those stories are all gone. There is a little delay, but I will proceed. Do the witnesses think the Garda would need to be resourced with regard to online safety following the passing of this Bill? It was suggested by one of the social media companies that we split the Bill between media regulation and online safety. Do they have a response to that?

Joint Committee on Media, Tourism, Arts, Culture, Sport and the Gaeltacht: General Scheme of the Online Safety and Media Regulation Bill 2020: Discussion (Resumed) (13 May 2021)

Fintan Warfield: I thank the witnesses. That is very informative.

Joint Committee on Media, Tourism, Arts, Culture, Sport and the Gaeltacht: General Scheme of the Online Safety and Media Regulation Bill 2020: Discussion (Resumed) (12 May 2021)

Fintan Warfield: I thank the witnesses for their comprehensive and helpful statements. The Department is telling us that an individual complaints mechanism would be quickly ground down, that there would be backlogs and, essentially, that it would not be effective. We know that Australia has a system in place whereby an individual complaints mechanism is available. I know from personal experience that when...

Joint Committee on Media, Tourism, Arts, Culture, Sport and the Gaeltacht: General Scheme of the Online Safety and Media Regulation Bill 2020: Discussion (Resumed) (12 May 2021)

Fintan Warfield: I have just one question. It may not be all that relevant but I will ask it just in case. A number of years ago, there was a considerable conversation on the digital age of consent. The Ombudsman for Children had a strong view on being realistic about children's Internet usage. Should we keep that in sight in respect of this Bill? We have one of the highest digital ages of consent, at...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (11 May 2021)

Fintan Warfield: Last week, the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage, Deputy Darragh O'Brien, brought the affordable housing Bill to Cabinet. There are two good proposals in it - an affordable cost rental scheme led by approved housing bodies and a council-run affordable purchase scheme. These two proposals will only be effective if the Government sets ambitious targets and meets those...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (11 May 2021)

Fintan Warfield: I second the amendment.

Seanad: Education (Leaving Certificate 2021) (Accredited Grades) Bill 2021: Committee and Remaining Stages (11 May 2021)

Fintan Warfield: I move amendment No. 2: In page 5, line 24, after “appropriate” to insert “(taken as a whole and not any one individual(’s)result)”. This amendment seeks clarity on whether junior certificate results will be based on results' data from the year group or from the individual student's own results. It should only be the junior certificate data from the...

Seanad: Education (Leaving Certificate 2021) (Accredited Grades) Bill 2021: Committee and Remaining Stages (11 May 2021)

Fintan Warfield: I move amendment No. 3: In page 5, between lines 28 and 29, to insert the following: “(iv) be set out in writing and published by or on behalf of the Commission prior to the issuing of results to each candidate;”. As we learned last year, a lack of clarity before the release of results will leave students questioning and doubting a greater number of results. It makes...

Seanad: Education (Leaving Certificate 2021) (Accredited Grades) Bill 2021: Committee and Remaining Stages (11 May 2021)

Fintan Warfield: I move amendment No. 4: In page 6, to delete lines 10 to 12. I will be brief because of the time. We want to remove this provision in the Bill, which narrows the grounds on which an appeal can be made. As matters stand, an appeal can only consider the technicalities of how estimated marks are transferred from the school to the State Examinations Commission, SEC. Since the system is...

Seanad: Education (Leaving Certificate 2021) (Accredited Grades) Bill 2021: Committee and Remaining Stages (11 May 2021)

Fintan Warfield: I move amendment No. 5: In page 7, between lines 22 and 23, to insert the following: “(b) Where a review is carried out, the Commission shall afford the candidate an opportunity to be heard. ”. Amendments Nos. 5 and 7 are the same. The word "candidate" is used in the Bill. Indeed, that is an unusual term for students and perhaps they will all stand for election after...

Seanad: Education (Leaving Certificate 2021) (Accredited Grades) Bill 2021: Committee and Remaining Stages (11 May 2021)

Fintan Warfield: I move amendment No. 6: In page 7, between lines 29 and 30, to insert the following: “(7) The Commission shall not decide to withhold all or any of the accredited grades as provided for by subsection (5), where it can be shown that the candidate had no knowledge of the communication that was made for his or her benefit by the first-mentioned person. (8) Where a communication is...

Seanad: Education (Leaving Certificate 2021) (Accredited Grades) Bill 2021: Committee and Remaining Stages (11 May 2021)

Fintan Warfield: I do not agree with the criticisms of the amendment. I think it strengthens the Bill and gives peace of mind to students over the coming weeks.

Seanad: Education (Leaving Certificate 2021) (Accredited Grades) Bill 2021: Committee and Remaining Stages (11 May 2021)

Fintan Warfield: I move amendment No. 7: In page 7, between lines 36 and 37, to insert the following: “(b) Where a review is carried out, the Commission shall afford the candidate an opportunity to be heard.”.

Committee on Public Petitions: Update on Direct Provision: The Ombudsman (11 May 2021)

Fintan Warfield: I am in the convention centre. I thank the witnesses for the presentation they have made. I missed the opening statements but I have read them. I refer to the developments that came with the White Paper on direct provision around the right to work. I apologise if it has been mentioned while I was absent. Does the witnesses' office deal with complaints from asylum seekers in cases where...