Joanna Tuffy (Dublin Mid West, Labour)
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I welcome the Tánaiste and Minister for Social Protection, Deputy Joan Burton, and the officials from her Department. We are meeting to consider the Supplementary Estimate for Vote 37 - Social Protection for an amount of €299 million. For these items under discussion the committee has an opportunity to review the additional allocations now being sought on an item by item basis, focus on the reason these additional allocations are now being sought by the Department of Social Protection, and review the targets set for the relevant items, the resources already made available for these items and the outputs and impact of the activities concerned. I invite the Minister to make some brief opening remarks.