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- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Role of Primary School Boards of Management: Discussion (22 Oct 2014)
Joanna Tuffy: Is the Deputy referring to the VEC board?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Role of Primary School Boards of Management: Discussion (22 Oct 2014)
Joanna Tuffy: I want to ensure that nothing is said that would identify the person.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Role of Primary School Boards of Management: Discussion (22 Oct 2014)
Joanna Tuffy: That is important.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Role of Primary School Boards of Management: Discussion (22 Oct 2014)
Joanna Tuffy: Do members want me to take all the questions now? Is that the way we will do it?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Role of Primary School Boards of Management: Discussion (22 Oct 2014)
Joanna Tuffy: We will do that. We will start with Mr. Loftus.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Role of Primary School Boards of Management: Discussion (22 Oct 2014)
Joanna Tuffy: Does anyone else want to comment?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Role of Primary School Boards of Management: Discussion (22 Oct 2014)
Joanna Tuffy: Perhaps they have a certain legal quality. Do you wish to comment, Mr. Loftus?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Role of Primary School Boards of Management: Discussion (22 Oct 2014)
Joanna Tuffy: They are supposed to keep to the law, but the issue is that they are not accountable in the sense of how we enforce it. Is that the point?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Role of Primary School Boards of Management: Discussion (22 Oct 2014)
Joanna Tuffy: I will let Ms Brett finish. We will take further questions then.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Role of Primary School Boards of Management: Discussion (22 Oct 2014)
Joanna Tuffy: We will move on to questions. I understand Deputy Jim Daly has agreed with Deputy Charlie McConalogue and Deputy Jonathan O'Brien that he should begin, rather than the other way around. Deputy Jim Daly requested this meeting.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Role of Primary School Boards of Management: Discussion (22 Oct 2014)
Joanna Tuffy: I invite Ms Anne McElduff from the INTO to make her presentation.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Role of Primary School Boards of Management: Discussion (22 Oct 2014)
Joanna Tuffy: That covers the gist of it. We will come back to the other aspects. The final presentation is by Mr. Hubert Loftus on behalf of the Department of Education and Skills.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Role of Primary School Boards of Management: Discussion (22 Oct 2014)
Joanna Tuffy: We will have to suspend in a few minutes for a vote in the Dáil.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Role of Primary School Boards of Management: Discussion (22 Oct 2014)
Joanna Tuffy: So many members must leave to vote that the committee must suspend. I am sorry about that.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Role of Primary School Boards of Management: Discussion (22 Oct 2014)
Joanna Tuffy: I apologise for interrupting, but I would like to keep the initial contribution to five minutes. Perhaps you could discuss boards of management in particular. I do not mean to be political but I am conscious of time.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Role of Primary School Boards of Management: Discussion (22 Oct 2014)
Joanna Tuffy: My understanding is that we are mainly considering the governance issue. Deputy Daly has requested the debate. We have had much discussion on the issue of cutbacks, and governance is the focus of today's debate.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Role of Primary School Boards of Management: Discussion (22 Oct 2014)
Joanna Tuffy: By virtue of section 17(2)(l) of the Defamation Act 2009, witnesses are protected by absolute privilege in respect of the evidence they are to give the joint committee. However, If they are directed by it to cease giving evidence on a particular matter and continue to so do, they are entitled thereafter only to qualified privilege in respect of their evidence. They are directed that only...
- Topical Issue Debate: Orthodontic Service Provision (16 Oct 2014)
Joanna Tuffy: As the fourth Topical Issue matter has also been deferred, the Dáil will adjourn.
- Seanad Reform: Motion [Private Members] (16 Oct 2014)
Joanna Tuffy: I begin by commenting on the comments of Deputies Shane Ross and Catherine Murphy. Deputy Shane Ross mentioned insiders and Deputy Catherine Murphy referred to patronage. They were talking about the manner in which the Seanad is elected in part by Deputies, Senators and local authority members. They include themselves, as Deputies Shane Ross and Catherine Murphy are part of that...
- Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Library Services Funding (16 Oct 2014)
Joanna Tuffy: 210. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the amount of funding allocated each year to the public lending remuneration scheme (details supplied), which is a form of payment to authors for the loan of their books to public libraries; if, in the future, the amount of funding allocated each year may be made public; and if he will make a statement on the matter....