I second the amendment.

I second the amendment.

I second the amendment.

I second the amendment.

I move amendment No. 41: In page 18, between lines 3 and 4, to insert the following: “9. A relevant body shall on an application by a relevant person who has reached the age of 16 years supply to that person all personal data relating to the relevant person.”.

I appreciate the expertise of committee members and of Senator Seery Kearney in this area. I do not have much more to add to what Senators Ruane and Moynihan have said already except to say that Sinn Féin supports their amendments. We oppose this section outright and may do so at the end of this discussion if those amendments are not accepted. I want to acknowledge that the Minister has moved significantly on this through the various Stages in the Dáil, across the Bill, but section 17 is highly contested. The manda…

I welcome the Minister to the House and I commend him on the publication of the women's health action plan. I wish to raise two issues. The first is the issue of free contraception for women aged 17 to 25. The Government has repeatedly said that programme will commence in August and I want to ask about that. We are just a couple of months out from that roll-out and I hope the Minister will be able to tell me how prepared we are for it. Have the regulations been signed to enable this to start in August? Will an info…

I welcome the Minister of State to the House. I am grateful to the Seanad Office and the office of the Cathaoirleach for selecting this Commencement matter. It follows on from the Commencement matter I tabled last week in respect of Project Ireland 2040 and the capital plan for national cultural institutions. Cruinniú na nÓg will take place on Saturday, 11 June. It is an initiative of Creative Ireland, in partnership with local authorities, RTÉ and the Department. Events for children and young people will take plac…

Creative Ireland has been very good at bringing people around the table and bringing stakeholders together. The statement the Minister of State has made is very helpful for my own information. I will analyse it. There is undoubted success from the Creative Youth programme. I look forward to meeting with more facilitators, artists and schools that have taken part to get their sense of that. Schools are provided with €4,000 and I wonder if that is enough. Are we reaching as many schools as we can? Is there room for a…

I will speak briefly in support of Senator Flynn. I attended the Traveller protest outside with many of our colleagues and it is time we stop fobbing off members of the Traveller community with committees and reports. I served on the committee examining key issues affecting the Traveller community in a previous parliamentary term but we must get the party leaders around the table to start delivering for Travellers in this country. The tourism industry seems to be in chaos between hotel prices and the lack of taxis …

Hear, hear.

I move amendment No. 8: "In page 12, to delete lines 15 and 16 and substitute the following: "(4) The Minister shall appoint the National Building Control Office as the registration body under subsection (2) :"." I raised this issue on Second Stage so the Minister will be aware of it. The construction industry register is currently located on a voluntary basis in the head office of the Construction Industry Federation, CIF. Criteria for appointing the registration body under this Bill is essentially designed so tha…

I do not think the Government ever advanced the idea of a statutory register as proposed originally by Law Reform Commission. To this day, we are still looking at a register that is located within the industry. If the Minister envisages that will be the Construction Industry Federation and the Bill is designed in such a way that it will be the Construction Industry Federation, it is ironic that we cannot prescribe in legislation who it will be. In this case it is that it would be the national building control offic…

I move amendment No. 12: In page 14, line 8, after "person" to insert "through the Public Appointments Service". This amendment relates to the appointments made by the Minister. My party would like the appointments to be made through the Public Appointments Service, which should be used in every single case. That is all I will say on this section.

On the issue of compensation, there is a register and a set of criteria that a provider must meet to get on the register. For example, if a registered provider is messing and a complaint is made to the registration authority, the provider can perhaps be sanctioned or struck off the register, but that is no good for redress. There should be compensation for the remediation of works. We wanted this section to go further. Obviously, our amendment has been ruled out of order, so I will not speak to it. We would like a …

I move amendment No. 208: In page 129, to delete lines 38 and 39, and in page 130, to delete lines 1 to 7 and substitute the following: “ 159E . (1) The Commission shall no later than 1st January 2023 and for the purposes of funding a scheme made under section 159F, make an order imposing a levy on the media service providers referred to in subsection (2) of not less than 3 per cent but not more than 5 per cent of their revenues from subscribers and/or advertising revenues from their services established in the Sta…

I thank the Acting Chair. Hopefully, we will get out by 9 p.m. This is a major amendment for us in respect of the content levy. It is concerned with setting a date for its introduction and setting a percentage for that levy that will be not less than 3% and not more than 5% of revenues. The funds raised would go towards independent Irish productions. Ultimately, this is about providing certainty to the sector. I had the pleasure of studying film and television production in Galway-Mayo Institute of Technology for m…

I would not mind taking a break and then I will come back in.

I would be grateful if the Minister spoke to amendment No. 208 in response to me, if that is okay.

I will speak to amendments Nos. 210 and 212.