Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Tuesday, 22 September 2015
Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection
Estimates for Public Services 2015 - Vote 37: Minister for Social Protection
3:15 pm
Joanna Tuffy (Dublin Mid West, Labour)
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What has been proposed is a good idea. We have to work together and we need common ground to move towards this type of model. It is a question of how we get there. We cannot do it all at once but it is a good idea to focus on one part. We will come back to the Minister on that and then we can figure out what areas are those on which we would like to focus.
We have probably exhausted that topic at this stage. We will now turn to the programmes but I intend to give everybody a chance, at the beginning, to raise whatever issue they want. I will take Deputy Butler and then Deputy Conlan.