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Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (13 Feb 2024)

Fintan Warfield: On Friday night I was in Tallaght Stadium, where there was a record attendance. I commend South Dublin County Council on the new stand.It is by a huge margin the most developed stadium in the League of Ireland. Yesterday was also an important day for Bohemians and I welcome the news that Dublin City Council has approved planning for Dalymount Park. We need to see funding secured for that...

Seanad: Local Government (Mayor of Limerick) and Miscellaneous Provisions Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (13 Feb 2024)

Fintan Warfield: I support this amendment around various things the mayor should be doing, such as chairing the joint policing committee, and having powers in terms of waste management, regeneration and the public realm and, importantly, the introduction of a living wage, and promoting that initiative. The mayor having an ambassadorial role in the delivery of a living wage, which by the way is a programme...

Seanad: Local Government (Mayor of Limerick) and Miscellaneous Provisions Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (13 Feb 2024)

Fintan Warfield: I move amendment No. 11: In page 14, between lines 14 and 15, to insert the following: “(6) The Mayor shall have, as a function, an ambassadorial role in the promotion and delivery of a living wage in businesses contained within the administrative area covered by Limerick City and County Council. (7) The Mayoral role shall have promotional and delivery responsibilities in the...

Seanad: Local Government (Mayor of Limerick) and Miscellaneous Provisions Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (13 Feb 2024)

Fintan Warfield: I move amendment No. 18: In page 17, line 27 to delete “The director general, after consultation with the Mayor,” and substitute “The Mayor, after consultation with the director general,”.

Seanad: Local Government (Mayor of Limerick) and Miscellaneous Provisions Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (13 Feb 2024)

Fintan Warfield: I move amendment No. 38: In page 24, to delete lines 7 and 8 and substitute the following: “(a) subject to paragraph (b), three times in each year at intervals of not more than 4 months, and”.

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: National Cultural Institutions (8 Feb 2024)

Fintan Warfield: I welcome the Minister of State to the House and thank him for taking this Commencement matter. There was a very good article in The Guardianbefore Christmas about an Irish woman, Isabella Walsh from Limerick. A previous article in The Guardianinspired her to return her late father's collection of 19th century African and Aboriginal objects to their countries of origin. She is from...

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: National Cultural Institutions (8 Feb 2024)

Fintan Warfield: I thank the Minister of State, and the Minister, Deputy Martin, and her officials in the Department for the update. I wish the advisory committee well, including Lynn Scarff, the director of the National Museum of Ireland, and Virginia Teehan, the chief executive of the Heritage Council, and all of the folks on the advisory committee. I wish them all the best. It is a complex issue; of...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (8 Feb 2024)

Fintan Warfield: I raise the issue of licensing laws. Last year, in May or June, Sinn Féin brought forward a Private Members' motion urging the Government to save the night-time economy. Fine Gael has made a lot of political capital out of announcement after announcement but still there has been no change. The response from the Minister, Deputy McEntee, to a parliamentary question last November stated...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (31 Jan 2024)

Fintan Warfield: At last, we have a breakthrough in the negotiations in the North of Ireland and we all expect the Assembly will elect a new Executive before the 8 February deadline. That will mean Northern institutions will be back up and running. There will be a fully functioning Assembly and an Executive, as well as the full operation of the Good Friday Agreement. The democratic outcome of the Assembly...

Seanad: Coroners (Amendment) Bill 2024: Second Stage (30 Jan 2024)

Fintan Warfield: I welcome the Minister of State to the House. The Coroners (Amendment) Bill, will ensure that an appropriate number of coroners can be recruited to operate in the Dublin district and ensure that additional temporary coroners can be appointed to the Dublin district and other districts, if required.It is an urgent Bill to ensure the smooth running of the Coroner Service in dealing with...

Seanad: Local Government (Mayor of Limerick) and Miscellaneous Provisions Bill 2023: Second Stage (24 Jan 2024)

Fintan Warfield: I send apologies on behalf of Senator Gavan, who cannot be here, but I know he will be here with our amendments next week or the week after that. This is a hugely important matter for the people of Limerick. This could have been a Bill that offered meaningful reform of local government and local government in Limerick with real powers and real influence but it does not. What is offered is...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (23 Jan 2024)

Fintan Warfield: I thank the Green Party for those very kind remarks and I will be sure to pass them on to Niall Ó Donnghaile. It was very generous of Senator Martin. I call for a debate on emigration. Between July 2022 and July 2023, some 21,000 visas were issued to Irish citizens going to Australia. That is double the number the previous year and it makes Ireland the highest recipient of those visas...

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: National Library (22 Jan 2024)

Fintan Warfield: I thank the Cathaoirleach for selecting this Commencement matter, which I also raised as a Commencement matter in 2021. I have heard of no progress to date, so I hope that today the Minister of State will have an update for me. The National Library of Ireland is a depository where publications are sent to record the history of the State, but they do not have the same legal responsibility...

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: National Library (22 Jan 2024)

Fintan Warfield: The Minister of State said that section 108 of the 2019 Act provided that the Government would bring forward a report on the feasibility of establishing a digital legal deposit scheme. Does she know if that report was brought forward and, if not, could she ask the Minister? Would she be able to find that out for me if I cannot find it out myself? I note that section 29 of the copyright Act...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (22 Jan 2024)

Fintan Warfield: David has been a towering political campaigner, academic and historian. He is the longest serving Member of this House for good reason. I recall reading that his love of performance came partly from his first experiences in the Players Theatre at Trinity College Dublin, but I think it was a meeting of the Sexual Liberation Movement, SLM, in 1973 that seeded his gay rights activism. Like...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (22 Jan 2024)

Fintan Warfield: -----who was responsible for introducing David to that group, I believe, as well as Mary Dorcey, Hugo McManus, Margaret McWilliams and Michael Kerrigan.The SLM campaigned on a wide platform of reform around abortion, divorce, contraception and gay rights. With Belfast's Gay Liberation Society, SLM hosted Ireland's first symposium on homosexuality in February 1974. Within a year of that,...

Seanad: An Bille um an Naoú Leasú is Tríocha ar an mBunreacht (An Teaghlach), 2023: An Dara Céim - Thirty-ninth Amendment of the Constitution (The Family) Bill 2023: Second Stage (22 Jan 2024)

Fintan Warfield: I plan to speak on the thirty-ninth amendment to the Constitution, on the family, and my colleague, Lynn Boylan, will speak to the fortieth amendment, on care. As a member of the special Oireachtas Committee on Gender Equality, I played a very active role throughout 2022 on these issues, as did Senators Alice-Mary Higgins, Lisa Chambers, Regina Doherty and Pauline O'Reilly. I commend the...

Joint Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media: Non-court-based Conflict Resolution Mechanisms for Media-related Complaints: Discussion (17 Jan 2024)

Fintan Warfield: I welcome the witnesses. This strikes me as something of a political hearing, as this is a politicised issue at the moment. It veers closely to the remit of the justice committee. Our joint Oireachtas committees cross over a number of times. I attended the Joint Committee on Justice about licensing laws, which affects culture and the arts. I welcome and have no objection to this hearing....

Joint Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media: Non-court-based Conflict Resolution Mechanisms for Media-related Complaints: Discussion (17 Jan 2024)

Fintan Warfield: Can I ask Mr. Montgomery if he believes the industry needs to commit to a more sustainable funding model that might involve five years or ten years, which would enable the office to plan?