Results 361-380 of 7,652 for speaker:Joanna Tuffy
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: JobBridge and the Youth Guarantee: National Youth Council, Ballymun Jobs Centre and Department of Social Protection (4 Nov 2015)
Joanna Tuffy: Mr. Corcoran refers to the payment rates, but the participants get a social welfare payment. Social welfare payments have not been cut since 2010.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: JobBridge and the Youth Guarantee: National Youth Council, Ballymun Jobs Centre and Department of Social Protection (4 Nov 2015)
Joanna Tuffy: There have been no changes since this Government came into office. That is the point I am making.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: JobBridge and the Youth Guarantee: National Youth Council, Ballymun Jobs Centre and Department of Social Protection (4 Nov 2015)
Joanna Tuffy: I am sorry, but Senator Craughwell is leaving shortly.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: JobBridge and the Youth Guarantee: National Youth Council, Ballymun Jobs Centre and Department of Social Protection (4 Nov 2015)
Joanna Tuffy: Would Senator Craughwell not learn from work experience?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: JobBridge and the Youth Guarantee: National Youth Council, Ballymun Jobs Centre and Department of Social Protection (4 Nov 2015)
Joanna Tuffy: Mr. Doorley has been waiting for a while so I call him now.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: JobBridge and the Youth Guarantee: National Youth Council, Ballymun Jobs Centre and Department of Social Protection (4 Nov 2015)
Joanna Tuffy: What about more staff? Would that be the way to do it?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: JobBridge and the Youth Guarantee: National Youth Council, Ballymun Jobs Centre and Department of Social Protection (4 Nov 2015)
Joanna Tuffy: Is the centre a victim of its own success?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: JobBridge and the Youth Guarantee: National Youth Council, Ballymun Jobs Centre and Department of Social Protection (4 Nov 2015)
Joanna Tuffy: Who decides?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: JobBridge and the Youth Guarantee: National Youth Council, Ballymun Jobs Centre and Department of Social Protection (4 Nov 2015)
Joanna Tuffy: We should conclude soon.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: JobBridge and the Youth Guarantee: National Youth Council, Ballymun Jobs Centre and Department of Social Protection (4 Nov 2015)
Joanna Tuffy: Yes.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: JobBridge and the Youth Guarantee: National Youth Council, Ballymun Jobs Centre and Department of Social Protection (4 Nov 2015)
Joanna Tuffy: We can raise that. Do you have any information, Mr. Corcoran?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: JobBridge and the Youth Guarantee: National Youth Council, Ballymun Jobs Centre and Department of Social Protection (4 Nov 2015)
Joanna Tuffy: We have to be out of the room by 3.40 p.m. so we only have four minutes. Is there anything outstanding? Does anyone have anything else to say?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: JobBridge and the Youth Guarantee: National Youth Council, Ballymun Jobs Centre and Department of Social Protection (4 Nov 2015)
Joanna Tuffy: I think we have had a very good discussion, probably one of the best debates we have ever had on the topic. I am going to call the meeting to a close. I thank all our guests from the National Youth Council of Ireland, Ballymun Job Centre and the Department of Social Protection. Obviously, we will revisit the issue. Senator O'Donnell and Deputy Ryan have done a good deal of work on this...
- Travellers' Rights: Motion [Private Members] (3 Nov 2015)
Joanna Tuffy: I wish to express my sympathies to the families of those who died in Carrickmines. I hope that they get every support they need in the aftermath. I would like to focus specifically on the housing aspect of this motion. Deputy Pearse Doherty said earlier that local authorities have failed in the provision of Traveller accommodation. That is not true. There has been a failure on occasion and...
- Travellers' Rights: Motion [Private Members] (3 Nov 2015)
Joanna Tuffy: Deputy Pádraig Mac Lochlainn has agreed to share his time with other Members.
- Topical Issue Debate: Vaccination Programme (3 Nov 2015)
Joanna Tuffy: The next item - the need to allocate a dedicated IDA Ireland office to County Kerry - is in the name of Deputy Griffin and is addressed to the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation.
- Topical Issue Debate: Vaccination Programme (3 Nov 2015)
Joanna Tuffy: My advice is that it is possible.
- Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Black Economy (3 Nov 2015)
Joanna Tuffy: 360. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the position regarding the crackdown on exploitation of construction workers (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [37886/15]
- Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Swimming Pool Programme Status (3 Nov 2015)
Joanna Tuffy: 1182. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will provide an update on the value for money report on the local authority swimming pool programme (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [37894/15]
- Electoral (Amendment) (No. 2) Bill 2015: Second Stage (Resumed) (22 Oct 2015)
Joanna Tuffy: I refer to the provision for local voters who become naturalised. Deputy Coppinger just raised the issue. My constituency, or at least part of it, has a similar profile. Recently, I made inquiries with my local authority about this matter. Consequently, I tabled a parliamentary question this week because I wanted to find out the Department's position. Although the council had a process,...