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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Managing Back to School Costs: Discussion (8 May 2013)

Joanna Tuffy: Ms Deane could do so when she finishes speaking.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Business of Joint Committee (8 May 2013)

Joanna Tuffy: Apologies have been received from Senator Fidelma Healy Eames. For the information of members, the broadcast unit will broadcast the public session of the meeting live. The proceedings are carried on UPC channel 207. Is it agreed to go into private session to deal with the minutes, EU proposals, correspondence and other housekeeping matters? Agreed.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Scrutiny of EU Legislative Proposals (8 May 2013)

Joanna Tuffy: It is proposed that Schedule B does not warrant further scrutiny. Is that agreed? Agreed. COM (2011) 883 is a proposal for a directive of the European Parliament and of the Council amending directive 2005-36/EC on the recognition of professional qualifications and regulations on administrative co-operation through the Internal Market information system. It is proposed that this proposal...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Managing Back to School Costs: Discussion (8 May 2013)

Joanna Tuffy: I welcome four organisations that will make presentations to the committee on the matter of managing back to school costs. I apologise to the guests that we are somewhat delayed but there were important matters of correspondence and EU scrutiny proposals to address at the beginning of the meeting. We have with us Barnardos, the Society of St. Vincent de Paul, the National Parents Council...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Care Services (8 May 2013)

Joanna Tuffy: 223. To ask the Minister for Health his plans for Saint Joseph’s House, Stillorgan, County Dublin, a residential facility that caters for 30 to 40 deaf and blind adults; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21693/13]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects Status (2 May 2013)

Joanna Tuffy: 94. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the position regarding an application for a school extension (details supplied) County Dublin; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21042/13]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects Status (2 May 2013)

Joanna Tuffy: 95. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the position regarding an application for school extension in respect of a school (details supplied) in County Dublin; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21047/13]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Appointment Delays (2 May 2013)

Joanna Tuffy: 247. To ask the Minister for Health when a hospital appointment will be made in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Dublin in view of the fact that this case is a priority; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21079/13]

Land and Conveyancing Law Reform Bill 2013: Second Stage (Resumed) (1 May 2013)

Joanna Tuffy: It was all over the country but the Deputy is right, it was in Dublin. The Bill will reinstate a provision for repossession which was always there but, as people have said, was put in doubt by the 2009 legislation and its subsequent interpretation by the courts. When it was passed it was on the understanding that the repossession provision would apply. It is absolutely wrong for people to...

Land and Conveyancing Law Reform Bill 2013: Second Stage (Resumed) (1 May 2013)

Joanna Tuffy: There has been considerable scaremongering about the Bill, some of which is opportunist, populist and disingenuous. All of the Opposition speakers I have heard in the past hour and 35 minutes I have been here have been guilty of that. Sinn Féin is opposing the Bill. The logical conclusion of that is that Sinn Féin in the North should basically delete the equivalent provision for...

Land and Conveyancing Law Reform Bill 2013: Second Stage (Resumed) (1 May 2013)

Joanna Tuffy: He supported this repossession provision in the law back then.

Land and Conveyancing Law Reform Bill 2013: Second Stage (Resumed) (1 May 2013)

Joanna Tuffy: The Land and Conveyancing Law Reform Act 2009 was passed on the understanding that this repossession provision still applied.

Land and Conveyancing Law Reform Bill 2013: Second Stage (Resumed) (1 May 2013)

Joanna Tuffy: Sometimes I am in the Chair and I know Deputy Mattie McGrath is a very good speaker, but today he really lowered the discourse. It is wrong to wish that his fellow Deputies should burn in hell, which is inappropriate language. I do not know if it is allowed under the rules. He should show a bit of decency and respect in a democracy.

Land and Conveyancing Law Reform Bill 2013: Second Stage (Resumed) (1 May 2013)

Joanna Tuffy: That is the freedom of speech within a democracy, but it is wrong to say something like that.

Land and Conveyancing Law Reform Bill 2013: Second Stage (Resumed) (1 May 2013)

Joanna Tuffy: He did and we all agreed that he could share his time. However, it is not right in a democracy to use terms he used regarding his colleagues.

Land and Conveyancing Law Reform Bill 2013: Second Stage (Resumed) (1 May 2013)

Joanna Tuffy: I do not remember anybody in the then Opposition saying that to the Deputy when he was on the Government benches. Deputy Healy-Rae also used language that was over the top. He forgot to mention the councillors who were going around rezoning all the land for unnecessary development that was part of the property boom that caused the financial crisis. It is convenient to say it was all about...

Land and Conveyancing Law Reform Bill 2013: Second Stage (Resumed) (1 May 2013)

Joanna Tuffy: It has a lot to do with it.

Land and Conveyancing Law Reform Bill 2013: Second Stage (Resumed) (1 May 2013)

Joanna Tuffy: Councillors in the Deputy's part of the country were rezoning land that did not need to be rezoned.

Land and Conveyancing Law Reform Bill 2013: Second Stage (Resumed) (1 May 2013)

Joanna Tuffy: No. I am not making an allegation against him.

Land and Conveyancing Law Reform Bill 2013: Second Stage (Resumed) (1 May 2013)

Joanna Tuffy: I am most certainly not making an allegation.