Results 161-180 of 194 for long speaker:Fintan Warfield

Seanad: Order of Business (18 Apr 2018)

Fintan Warfield: ...or reasonable. In that context, I wish to propose an amendment to the Order of Business to call on the Minister for Health to come to the House to explain this delay, which has gone on for too long without any rationale. I do not do this lightly. However, given that I have attempted to get clear answers through different Oireachtas avenues on this issue, the Department seems unwilling...

Seanad: Childcare Support Bill 2017: Second Stage (18 Apr 2018)

Fintan Warfield: ..., we do not want a scenario to develop in which the State subsidises people who are not subject to regulation and oversight. This is an area on which work must be done in the period ahead. In the medium to long term, the State needs to move beyond simply subsidising private providers towards a publicly-funded system. I commend the Minister on accepting a number of Sinn Féin...

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: ...but this can only be done by access to contraception and inclusive and robust sexual education. Sinn Féin is proud to support this Bill today. We will not impede the clear and democratic avenue that is a referendum long sought and long overdue. I will again quote Mr. Gerry Edwards who spoke at the campaign launch of Together for Yes and whose words were reiterated by Senator Bacik...

Seanad: Electoral (Amendment) (Voting at 16) Bill 2016: Committee Stage (21 Mar 2018)

Fintan Warfield: ...to our political representatives over the past week. I introduced First Stage of this Bill in the Seanad on 12 July 2016. I remember it well as it was my first piece of legislation. I worked alongside Senator Lynn Ruane and felt immense pride in being in a position to introduce the legislation. I again thank the National Youth Council of Ireland for its constant support and note that...

Seanad: Commencement Matters: Gender Recognition (7 Mar 2018)

Fintan Warfield: The waiting list time and the admission that this service has developed on an ad hocbasis proves that this model simply is not working or is not economical in the long term. I accept that the waiting list data are extracted and do not differentiate specific procedures for transgender patients. However, if we accept that there are 1,900 people on the waiting list and compare that figure with...

Seanad: Commencement Matters: Social Welfare Scheme for Artists (15 Feb 2018)

Fintan Warfield: I thank the Minister for coming to the House. I fully support the concept of a social welfare scheme for artists. This is important and long overdue. We need to shape the scheme so that it appreciates the work of artists and supports them to produce work during a meaningful career. It has come to my attention that the number who have availed of the pilot scheme has been quite low, some 13...

Seanad: Order of Business (13 Feb 2018)

Fintan Warfield: I was. We can all agree that artists, writers and performers should be supported to produce their work. While the artists' social welfare pilot scheme is a very welcome initiative and long overdue, the current pilot unfortunately fails to recognise artists as self-employed and aligns itself closer to a jobseekers model of social welfare. In reality there are few jobs for artists. There is...

Seanad: Commencement Matters: Children and Family Services Provision (14 Dec 2017)

Fintan Warfield: ...and Family Relationships Act? A significant number of families are experiencing legal uncertainty and are having their rights deferred. I think same sex couples and their families have waited long enough for the commencement of these Parts of the Act.

Seanad: Commencement Matters: Children and Family Services Provision (14 Dec 2017)

Fintan Warfield: ...about the introduction of Parts 2 and 3. I have no doubt that the Department is working hard on this but I urge the Minister of State to give urgency to this issue. Same-sex families have waited long enough and we cannot claim to recognise all families equally until this obstacle is overcome. I urge that the Department and Minister give urgency to this issue.

Seanad: Permanent Structured Cooperation: Statements (13 Dec 2017)

Fintan Warfield: ...people were forced to vote again on the basis that they would have protection and that Ireland would be excluded from any EU common defence programme. Yet in 2017, we are now discussing exactly that. The long-standing national policy of neutrality is not simply an idealistic notion of which we wish to aspire. Neutrality, as enshrined in our Constitution, is one that rejects a colonial...

Seanad: World AIDS Day: Statements (30 Nov 2017)

Fintan Warfield: ...our sexual health responses? As generic manufacturers of PrEP now start to apply to the HSE for reimbursement, can the Minister give a commitment that the Government will provide generic PrEP in the near future along with sufficient clinical support? Our bleak and somewhat embarrassing response to HIV rates has gone on for far too long. The Minister mentioned that HIV Ireland held a...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs: Heritage Bill 2016: Discussion (29 Nov 2017)

Fintan Warfield: ...but did not do so. Some 432 fires were recorded in May this year alone. Will the witnesses explain how a March extension will solve this when the presentation led us to believe that it would go a long way to solve rogue burning. How do the witnesses from the IFA and the INHFA believe this could impact on the bird nesting season or bee pollination? How do all witnesses believe that...

Seanad: Order of Business (16 Nov 2017)

Fintan Warfield: ...it is intended to commence the sections later this year. Will he address this House and provide an update on whether the relevant sections will be commenced in 2017? Same-sex families have waited long enough to be recognised by the State.

Seanad: Health Services: Statements (Resumed) (15 Nov 2017)

Fintan Warfield: ...need to be assessed by the HSE. My question is about if and when it will happen. As I indicated, 500 new cases of HIV are being loaded onto an already stretched health service every year. The longer that goes on the more embarrassing it is for Ireland and the longer it goes on the further we will fall behind our European counterparts. Not only are we not being proactive in tackling the...

Seanad: Order of Business (24 Oct 2017)

Fintan Warfield: The Irish labour market is a scary place for young people. It is a savage place. Young people are essentially being deprived of citizenship. The long-term outlook for the cost of precarious work to society is huge. People have an entitlement to citizenship and if we consider ourselves republicans we, as politicians and political activists, have to deal with it and have to listen to young...

Seanad: Order of Business (27 Sep 2017)

Fintan Warfield: ...the National Youth Council of Ireland today. Their message, in the Mansion House this morning, was invest in our youth population and value their place in society. Eleven thousand young people are long-term unemployed. Mental health waiting lists are up 40% on last summer. The poverty rate among young people is double the overall rate and 800 of those who are homeless are between the...

Seanad: Order of Business (26 Sep 2017)

Fintan Warfield: Over the weekend, I had the pleasure of visiting Pozna, Poland, the occasion being an LGBT pride event. I took part in a panel discussion alongside an Irish delegation on Ireland's road to marriage equality before parading in the protest march. I was struck by the number of people who repeatedly reminded us how much it meant that Ireland opened its doors to Polish citizens in 2003 and 2004...

Seanad: Commencement Matters: School Curriculum (13 Jul 2017)

Fintan Warfield: The action plan on bullying, the LGBT youth strategy, and Better Outcomes, Better Future are welcome initiatives, but as long as an ethos-based school can choose aspects of its curriculum to uphold the characteristic spirit of that school we are in real trouble. This morning I lay in bed scrolling Twitter while trying to wake up, and there was a tweet from someone called Harrison Guy, who...

Seanad: Adoption (Amendment) Bill 2016: Report and Final Stages (13 Jun 2017)

Fintan Warfield: ...certain provisions to that effect in some jurisdictions. It probably seems to be counterintuitive to some that adoption should be possible after the age of 18 years, but the adoption process is long. In the 2010 Act some of the provisions and timeframes involved result in circumstances in which it might not be possible to conclude the process before the child reaches the age of 18 years....

Seanad: Order of Business (24 May 2017)

Fintan Warfield: ..., "I notice that the council wishes to change the definition for those artists eligible for cnuas". He goes on to state:The Arts Council discussed the definition of 'full-time practising artist'. It was agreed to no longer use this definition. The new definition for eligible artists is 'working artists engaged in productive practice'. He then, with great honesty, states:While I am not...