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Seanad: Mother and Baby Institutions Payment Scheme Bill 2022: Committee Stage (Resumed) (30 May 2023)

Fintan Warfield: On amendment No. 114, the exclusion of several relevant institutions was highlighted by the Mother and Baby Homes Commission of Investigation and the OAK report. On Committee Stage, Sinn Féin tried to introduce an amendment to include the four other institutions that we believe were identified by survivors as operating, by and large, as mother and baby homes but are excluded from...

Seanad: Mother and Baby Institutions Payment Scheme Bill 2022: Committee Stage (Resumed) (30 May 2023)

Fintan Warfield: I move amendment No. 114: In page 35, between lines 10 and 11, to insert the following: “(4) The Minister shall, within six months of the passing of this Act, prepare and lay before Dáil Eireann a report on the operation of the Mother and Baby Institution Payments Scheme. A report under this section shall consider the following matters: (a) the scope for inclusion of...

Seanad: Institutional Burials Act 2022 (Director of Authorised Intervention, Tuam) Order 2022: Motion (21 Sep 2022)

Fintan Warfield: I welcome the Minister and his officials to the House. This is a very long overdue step in addressing the legal rights of the individuals and families who died and were disappeared in institutional contexts for too long. They are individuals and families who have been impacted by so-called historical institutional abuse and have been sidelined. Indeed, while this is an important step...

Seanad: Birth Information and Tracing Bill 2022: Committee Stage (18 May 2022)

Fintan Warfield: I move amendment No. 23: In page 12, line 21, to delete “Regulation;” and substitute the following: “Regulation. Under this Act, all records relating to the adoption or informal care arrangement of a relevant person are considered to be that person’s personal data, regardless of whether that data is shared with another person. Personal data in relation to a...

Seanad: Birth Information and Tracing Bill 2022: Second Stage (10 May 2022)

Fintan Warfield: I welcome both the Minister and our guests in the Public Gallery. These are their Houses and they are very welcome here. I welcome also those who are watching the debate from elsewhere. The apology the Minister made on behalf of the State is welcome. I have no doubt it will have been a difficult moment for many people. It has come on the same day we have learned that no agreement has...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (30 Mar 2022)

Fintan Warfield: I welcome the Government's approval yesterday for the national centre for research and remembrance, to be located at the site of the former Magdalen laundry on Seán McDermott Street in Dublin city centre. The centre will serve as a national memorial to honour all those who were resident in mother and baby homes, industrial schools, reformatories, Magdalen laundries and related...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (16 Oct 2020)

Fintan Warfield: ...has just outlined. Perhaps he might allow us to second his proposal to take only Committee Stage today. I remind the Leader of what she said on Thursday, 10 September: I hear Members very loudly and clearly. I recall how standing here some six weeks ago I told the House that we would not do all Stages of Bills again and I find myself in a very uncomfortable position this week of having...

Seanad: Commission of Investigation (Mother and Baby Homes and certain related Matters) Records, and another Matter, Bill 2020: Second Stage (14 Oct 2020)

Fintan Warfield: I pay tribute, as others have done, to the women of the mother and baby homes and to their families and campaigners for maintaining dignified pressure on successive governments to see the process through to completion. Five interim reports have been published and the inquiry was granted a one-year extension. That extension was necessary in part owing to the lateness of materials submitted...

Seanad: Commission of Investigation into Mother and Baby Homes: Statements (6 Feb 2019)

Fintan Warfield: When an extension was given by the Government in February 2018, Sinn Féin reluctantly gave its support. We shared the sentiment expressed that it was important that we got this right and that the investigation would be as thorough as possible within the terms of reference. However, my colleague, Deputy Denise Mitchell, noted her concern at the time that the commission seemed to be...

Seanad: Commencement Matters: Commencement of Legislation (5 Dec 2018)

Fintan Warfield: .... We have just had a discussion on that issue. I suggest we really need to look at the slot for Commencement matters because many are not satisfied with the responses received. It has been three and a half years since the Children and Family Relationships Act 2015 was signed into law. This legislation should have meant that same-sex parents could register as legal parents on the birth...

Seanad: An Bille um an Séú Leasú is Tríocha ar an mBunreacht 2018: An Dara Céim - Thirty-sixth Amendment of the Constitution Bill 2018: Second Stage (27 Mar 2018)

Fintan Warfield: I am incredibly proud to play a part in a debate that will ensure the people will have a say on the eight amendment. As the youngest Member of Seanad Éireann and the only Member of this House in his 20s, I think of what the eighth amendment has meant to my generation - a boat, a plane or a pill. The pills are as safe as any drug available in a club or pub or at a festival on a night...

Seanad: 100 Years of Women's Suffrage in Ireland: Statements (7 Mar 2018)

Fintan Warfield: ...do much more. As has been mentioned, women's suffrage did not bring about women's equality nor have we achieved equality a century later.Marriage equality here did not achieve lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender, LGBT, equality and civil rights in the North did not end sectarianism. As we consider the next steps for gender equality, one of the most immediate must be the removal of...

Seanad: Report of the Joint Committee on the Eighth Amendment of the Constitution: Statements (17 Jan 2018)

Fintan Warfield: I commend Senator Noone on the role she played as chairperson of the Joint Committee on the Eighth Amendment of the Constitution. She was calm, patient and fair and her conduct as chairperson was everything for which an institution such as this could hope. Those traits are all the more impressive when one considers the issue at hand and the behaviour of some people. For quite some time, it...

Seanad: Adoption (Information and Tracing) Bill 2016: Second Stage (17 May 2017)

Fintan Warfield: I will be brief in an attempt to make space for others. I thank the Minister for joining us in the House. Information and tracing for our adoption services have been long sought by natural mothers who have been wronged and by adopted people who are seeking truth and justice. I commend the Minister's movement on the issue. It is made even more poignant after the revelations in March of the...

Seanad: Adoption (Amendment) Bill 2016: Second Stage (24 Jan 2017)

Fintan Warfield: I am very pleased to support this progressive Bill. As has been outlined by Sinn Féin in the Dáil, it legislates for what is in the best interest of the child and modernises a system that previously held archaic and restrictive barriers. It is the view of Sinn Féin that any adoption system must embrace a more modern and progressive view of the family. Throughout the State's...