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Seanad: Copyright and Other Intellectual Property Law Provisions Bill 2018: Second Stage (26 Sep 2018)

Fintan Warfield: I thank the Minister of State for coming in to take this Bill. I welcome the legislation, as others have done. It sets out to implement some of the recommendations in the Modernising Copyright report prepared by the Copyright Review Committee back in 2013, and it is also influenced by the Marrakesh treaty, both of which Sinn Féin support. The importance of copyright to the creative...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Business of Joint Committee
Business of Joint Committee (26 Sep 2018)

Fintan Warfield: I nominate Senator Catherine Noone.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Tackling Childhood Obesity: Discussion (Resumed) (26 Sep 2018)

Fintan Warfield: I have questions for the Department of Children and Youth Affairs and the Department of Education and Skills. I will be begin with the development of a strategy for babies, young children and their families. I am aware that the LGBTQI strategy was launched and that it runs from 2018 to 2020. The national youth strategy runs from 2015 to 2020. Is there capacity in the Department of...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Tackling Childhood Obesity: Discussion (Resumed) (26 Sep 2018)

Fintan Warfield: Will the Department of Children and Youth Affairs hold them to account for their actions?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Tackling Childhood Obesity: Discussion (Resumed) (26 Sep 2018)

Fintan Warfield: Apart from the strategies mentioned, are there other ongoing strategies?

Seanad: Commencement Matters (Resumed): National Drugs Strategy (25 Sep 2018)

Fintan Warfield: I thank the Chair for facilitating this conversation about harm reduction, and I welcome the Minister of State to the House. I commend the HSE and the Department of Health for their work in informing drug users about the safe use of drugs. It is proactive, realistic and life saving. According to a Eurobarometer poll in 2014, the use of psychoactive drugs among 15 to 24 year olds in Ireland...

Seanad: Commencement Matters (Resumed): National Drugs Strategy (25 Sep 2018)

Fintan Warfield: That was a comprehensive response. I did not take the chance to commend the Minister of State on launching the cocaine and crack initiative. There was criticism and pressure about this. I commend her on showing leadership on the issue. It is welcome that the Department of Health and the HSE will establish a working group to examine such settings as music festivals. I welcome the fact the...

Seanad: Order of Business (25 Sep 2018)

Fintan Warfield: I place on record my frustration at reports of an internal Government row between the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport, Deputy Shane Ross, and the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government, Deputy Eoghan Murphy, on proposed regulation of Airbnb and who should take the lead on that issue. This matter has been dealt with. While Senators talk about working together on...

Seanad: Project 2040 and Transport Matters: Statements (20 Sep 2018)

Fintan Warfield: I welcome the opportunity to contribute on behalf of Senator Niall Ó Donnghaile.In respect of transport, I refer first to the recent revelation published in The Irish Timesthat, in 2011, the then Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport, Deputy Varadkar, blocked EU funding for infrastructural projects in the west and north west. The revelation proved the intention of this Government,...

Seanad: Project 2040 and Transport Matters: Statements (20 Sep 2018)

Fintan Warfield: I have been trained well. My Dad taught me to cycle. I cycle towards St. Patrick's Cathedral. There does not seem to be too much urgency to link the canals and Luas lines with cycle links. I ask the Minister to demonstrate more urgency on that front.

Seanad: Order of Business (19 Sep 2018)

Fintan Warfield: I wanted to use the first opportunity I had to call for a debate on the worsening housing crisis. I call on the Leader to ensure that the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government comes to this House as soon as that can be scheduled. I know I will say when he comes here that his plans most recently for a new Land Development Agency will cause only further harm to people's lives...

Seanad: Order of Business (19 Sep 2018)

Fintan Warfield: Fine Gael and Fianna Fáil did it.

Seanad: Order of Business (19 Sep 2018)

Fintan Warfield: That is not the case.

Seanad: Commencement Matters: Proposed Legislation (12 Jul 2018)

Fintan Warfield: I welcome the Minister to the House. Four weeks ago, the Houses of the Oireachtas took a progressive step in dealing with the sometimes shameful legacy of the State's treatment of the LGBTQI community by the passage in the Dáil of a motion apologising to those criminalised for homosexual activity. Similar legacy issues arise in respect of our Traveller and migrant communities and...

Seanad: Commencement Matters: Proposed Legislation (12 Jul 2018)

Fintan Warfield: I appreciate what the Minister of State said. I do not have figures to hand for other communities such as the Traveller community or other minorities, but in my case, despite marriage equality, we see this week that one in three LGBT couples will still not hold hands on the street. I have crossed the road with my boyfriend on many occasions - mainly at night - when we had a particular...

Seanad: Commencement Matters: Proposed Legislation (12 Jul 2018)

Fintan Warfield: May I express my concern? The Minister of State says something should be reported, but there is more to it than that. That requires somebody to be out of the closet and have confidence in the police force.

Seanad: Planning and Development (Amendment) Bill 2016: Motions (11 Jul 2018)

Fintan Warfield: In contrast to the Minister of State, I want to express my disappointment that amendments Nos. 41 and 42 have been voted down by the Dáil. I am particularly disappointed that Fianna Fáil Members of this House had supported the amendments and yet Fianna Fáil abstained on the same vote in the Dáil, making it inevitable that those amendments would fall. Without rehearsing...

Seanad: Heritage Bill 2016: [Seanad Bill amended by the Dáil] Report and Final Stages (11 Jul 2018)

Fintan Warfield: As I and others have stated, the Bill is rife with unintended consequences. This is another example. Notwithstanding the other elements of the Bill which I can only refer to as environmental sabotage, I and Sinn Féin have consistently called for a separate canals Bill, as originally intended. Such a Bill, one that enhances rather than hinders the canals activity, should still be...

Seanad: Heritage Bill 2016: [Seanad Bill amended by the Dáil] Report and Final Stages (11 Jul 2018)

Fintan Warfield: On a point of order, as the budget in this area has dropped from €20 million to €6 million, I do not think an appreciation of the Heritage Council will go very far tonight.

Seanad: Order of Business (10 Jul 2018)

Fintan Warfield: I support the contribution made by Senator Colm Burke. I was disappointed to see anti-vaxxers outside Leinster House yesterday. They have a right to protest but I could not help but notice the large number of young people and children among the protestors, that is, the people who these vaccinations protect. A number of months ago, I received my final vaccination at the gay men's health...