Results 601-620 of 7,652 for speaker:Joanna Tuffy
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Role of Special Needs Assistants: Discussion (1 Jul 2015)
Joanna Tuffy: To be fair, Mr. Robinson referred to SNAs being seen as general dogsbodies rather than treated as general dogsbodies. I wish to clarify that point.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Role of Special Needs Assistants: Discussion (1 Jul 2015)
Joanna Tuffy: The post-primary parents council was invited but was not in a position to offer a speaker.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Role of Special Needs Assistants: Discussion (1 Jul 2015)
Joanna Tuffy: Is that the Deputy's final question?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Role of Special Needs Assistants: Discussion (1 Jul 2015)
Joanna Tuffy: I will ask everyone to wrap up and Ms Griffin to answer the outstanding questions before calling each witness.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Role of Special Needs Assistants: Discussion (1 Jul 2015)
Joanna Tuffy: Does Mr. Mulkerrins wish to add anything?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Role of Special Needs Assistants: Discussion (1 Jul 2015)
Joanna Tuffy: We have approximately ten minutes left.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Role of Special Needs Assistants: Discussion (1 Jul 2015)
Joanna Tuffy: Mr. Robinson is not against JobBridge per se.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Role of Special Needs Assistants: Discussion (1 Jul 2015)
Joanna Tuffy: Are all SNAs let go for the summer?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Role of Special Needs Assistants: Discussion (1 Jul 2015)
Joanna Tuffy: Are they all employed directly by the school?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Role of Special Needs Assistants: Discussion (1 Jul 2015)
Joanna Tuffy: We will now conclude as we have to vacate the room. I thank everybody for a very good and informative discussion, which will help inform our report. We will be in touch with the witnesses when we have the report.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: State Examinations Commission: Engagement with Chair-Designate. (24 Jun 2015)
Joanna Tuffy: At the request of the broadcasting and recording services, witnesses and those in the Visitors Gallery are requested to ensure that for the duration of the meeting all mobile telephones are turned off completely or switched to airplane safe or flight mode, depending on the device. I welcome our witness, Mr. Pat Burke. I advise the witness that, by virtue of section 17(2)(l) of the Defamation...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: State Examinations Commission: Engagement with Chair-Designate. (24 Jun 2015)
Joanna Tuffy: I add my own best wishes to Mr. Burke in his new role. The experience he has outlined is very relevant to his new role, as is the case for his fellow commissioners. I am aware that the new commission was appointed through the new process under the Public Appointments Service, which is also very welcome. Does Mr. Burke have any responses to the issues raised?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: State Examinations Commission: Engagement with Chair-Designate. (24 Jun 2015)
Joanna Tuffy: That is not within the remit of the State Examinations Commission.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: State Examinations Commission: Engagement with Chair-Designate. (24 Jun 2015)
Joanna Tuffy: I, Senator O'Donnell and our Vice Chairman, Deputy Jim Daly, went to Austria recently to look at the apprenticeship system there. In recent years, Austria, and countries with similar systems, introduced a state exam whereby a person who had taken the apprenticeship route could take the state exam and then move on to university or another third level institution. If we considered a similar...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: State Examinations Commission: Engagement with Chair-Designate. (24 Jun 2015)
Joanna Tuffy: If we were to do it, would the commission have the capacity to oversee it? We have an apprenticeship system.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: State Examinations Commission: Engagement with Chair-Designate. (24 Jun 2015)
Joanna Tuffy: If a repeat exam were introduced for these cases, there would be a question in regard to other students who just want to repeat the exam.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: State Examinations Commission: Engagement with Chair-Designate. (24 Jun 2015)
Joanna Tuffy: Perhaps it is a smaller undertaking to identify the work for a re-check.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: State Examinations Commission: Engagement with Chair-Designate. (24 Jun 2015)
Joanna Tuffy: We have discussed the matter exhaustively. I thank Mr. Burke for coming before the committee. We have had an interesting debate. On behalf of the committee, I wish Mr. Burke all the best in his new role. Hopefully we will have him back at some stage to give us an update.
- Written Answers — Department of Finance: Banking Sector Staff (23 Jun 2015)
Joanna Tuffy: 259. To ask the Minister for Finance if he is aware that Allied Irish Banks is currently developing proposals to outsource work and staff from the application and development management teams within its information technology division to a third-party service provider, which decision will have a huge impact on customers and staff; if he will request the bank's senior management to reconsider...
- Urban Regeneration and Housing Bill 2015: Second Stage (Resumed) (18 Jun 2015)
Joanna Tuffy: The Deputy should withdraw that.