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Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Housing Policy (20 Mar 2024)

Fintan Warfield: The Housing Commission has completed its work on a referendum in respect of housing. I commend the work of the commission. I tabled this matter to give the Minister and the Government an opportunity to discuss the right to housing being enshrined in the Constitution, which the Seanad supported by way of a motion earlier this term. Often, Private Members' referendum Bills in the Dáil...

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Housing Policy (20 Mar 2024)

Fintan Warfield: I am somewhat confused. My understanding was that two reports had been furnished to the Government but I will bring the response away and consider it further. Back in early November, the Minister, Deputy O'Brien, said he expected in quite a short space of time to be able to bring a report and recommendations to Cabinet. The Acting Chair is a member of the housing committee. I am sure...

Seanad: Research and Innovation Bill 2024: Second Stage (20 Mar 2024)

Fintan Warfield: I welcome the opportunity to speak briefly to the Bill. In the coming weeks I look forward to reviewing it in more detail with colleagues and, possibly, to tabling amendments as well. I hope this Bill is not merely the coming together of two existing research funding bodies but is a new departure for promoting research and development in Ireland. Ireland has underinvested in research and...

Joint Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media: Support for Development of Regional Film and Television Production: Discussion (20 Mar 2024)

Fintan Warfield: I thank the witnesses. They are very welcome to the committee. Céad míle fáilte rompu. I will start with the issue of research and tracking figures from the industry. When I look at heritage figures, the arts sector and the audiovisual sector, we have a range of reports from different years. According to the Olsberg SPI report, in 2015 the wider audiovisual sector had a...

Joint Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media: Support for Development of Regional Film and Television Production: Discussion (20 Mar 2024)

Fintan Warfield: To move on, I touched on the issue of the new strategic plan with Kevin Bakhurst when he appeared before the committee. The witnesses have referred to the plan. I had intended to raise the matter, and bringing the support of the independent sector up to between €70 million and €75 million, at the meeting. Reference was made to it being 50% above levels currently produced by...

Joint Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media: Support for Development of Regional Film and Television Production: Discussion (20 Mar 2024)

Fintan Warfield: TG4 uses multi-annual deals with production companies. Am I right in saying that?

Joint Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media: Support for Development of Regional Film and Television Production: Discussion (20 Mar 2024)

Fintan Warfield: Will the media commission update us on the European works levy and where that process is at?

Joint Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media: Support for Development of Regional Film and Television Production: Discussion (20 Mar 2024)

Fintan Warfield: Go raibh maith agaibh.

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (6 Mar 2024)

Fintan Warfield: I wish to propose an amendment to the Order of Business that No. 12 be taken before No. 1. Sinn Féin, like many other organisations, people in the public, in civil society organisations and many political parties have long supported the naming of the national children's hospital for Dr. Kathleen Lynn. She was a remarkable woman, who at various times was chief medical officer, vice...

Seanad: Children’s Health (Kathleen Lynn National Children's Hospital) (Amendment) Bill 2024: First Stage (6 Mar 2024)

Fintan Warfield: I move: That leave be granted to introduce a Bill entitled an Act to amend the Children’s Health Act 2018 and therefore to amend the National Paediatric Hospital Development Board (Establishment) Order 2007 (S.I. No. 246 of 2007) so as to direct that the National Children’s Hospital be named, in the Irish language, Ospidéal Náisiúnta Kathleen Lynn do...

Seanad: Children’s Health (Kathleen Lynn National Children's Hospital) (Amendment) Bill 2024: First Stage (6 Mar 2024)

Fintan Warfield: Next Tuesday.

Seanad: International Women's Day: Statements (6 Mar 2024)

Fintan Warfield: As we mark International Women’s Day, we have an opportunity to celebrate women’s accomplishments in Ireland and abroad. Equally, we can use this moment to audit the culture of gender-based abuse and violence and the lack of equality that still lingers. We can also use this moment to call out sexist discriminatory behaviour and declare that it has no place in an...

Seanad: Private Rental Sector: Motion (6 Mar 2024)

Fintan Warfield: I move: That Seanad Éireann notes that: - the private rental sector is dysfunctional with ever-increasing rents and decreasing standards; - the average State-wide rent now stands at €1,823 per month; and the average new rent in Dublin city is €2,349, €1,999 in Galway city, €1,907 in Cork city, €1,907 in Limerick city and €1,537 in Waterford...

Seanad: Private Rental Sector: Motion (6 Mar 2024)

Fintan Warfield: The cost of living, the quality of life, the cost of-----

Seanad: Private Rental Sector: Motion (6 Mar 2024)

Fintan Warfield: He is going to say that house prices-----

Seanad: Private Rental Sector: Motion (6 Mar 2024)

Fintan Warfield: The tension in this debate is not there because Sinn Féin has created that energy but because housing consumes everyone's life. In smoking areas, clubs, queues for clubs, cafes, among sports teams and on trips, housing and renting consumes the life of everyone. Senator McGahon said people do not care who builds the home, where it is built or about all these regulatory and legislative...

Seanad: Private Rental Sector: Motion (6 Mar 2024)

Fintan Warfield: Since 2012, house prices have risen more dramatically than wages and that has left a significant number of people, young people in particular, locked out of home ownership and living in the private rental market. People are paying more than 40% of their salary on rent. What are they getting in return? No protection if the home is sold; no protection if the landlord decides to move in; no...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (5 Mar 2024)

Fintan Warfield: Today, news has broken that Terence O'Rourke is set to be named as the new chair of the RTÉ board. I rise to express my frustration that there is still no chairperson of the Arts Council. On Friday, 1 December 2023, it was reported that the former chairperson, Kevin Rafter, would step down as chair of the Arts Council. He was a very good chair of the council over the past four years....

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (28 Feb 2024)

Fintan Warfield: I wish to bring the attention of the House to a report on inclusion in sport that was launched yesterday morning by the Oireachtas Joint Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport and Media. I hope Members will get a chance to read the report and the House will be able to have statements on it as soon as possible. The report is ultimately bound up in creating a better supporting environment...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (28 Feb 2024)

Fintan Warfield: Is he good or am I good? I am brilliant, although I did not keep a clean sheet at the weekend. Visibility is very important and there are good recommendations in the report. I look forward to a discussion on the report in the House and inviting the views of other Members.