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- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Review of Vote 37: Minister for Social Protection (17 Sep 2014)
Joanna Tuffy: I know. I have to chair this meeting as fairly as I can by taking all things into account, and I am doing that. Several members have spoken more than once but some have not spoken at all. I ask Deputy Keating to make-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Review of Vote 37: Minister for Social Protection (17 Sep 2014)
Joanna Tuffy: I will bring Deputy Butler-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Review of Vote 37: Minister for Social Protection (17 Sep 2014)
Joanna Tuffy: Deputy Butler is listed.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Review of Vote 37: Minister for Social Protection (17 Sep 2014)
Joanna Tuffy: That is a more general issue, so I will not allow the Minister to answer until we get to that programme.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Review of Vote 37: Minister for Social Protection (17 Sep 2014)
Joanna Tuffy: We are going through this programme-by-programme, so the Minister will have to reply later.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Review of Vote 37: Minister for Social Protection (17 Sep 2014)
Joanna Tuffy: To be fair to Senator Naughten, she spoke for the shortest amount of time of any member who has contributed so far, so I think I have allowed her a bit of leeway.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Review of Vote 37: Minister for Social Protection (17 Sep 2014)
Joanna Tuffy: Deputy Daly's question was about-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Review of Vote 37: Minister for Social Protection (17 Sep 2014)
Joanna Tuffy: There are a couple of supplementary questions and I would like to bring in people who have not yet spoken. I call Senator Moloney and then-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Review of Vote 37: Minister for Social Protection (17 Sep 2014)
Joanna Tuffy: The Senator did not indicate.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Review of Vote 37: Minister for Social Protection (17 Sep 2014)
Joanna Tuffy: Senator, I did not see you until after everybody had asked their questions.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Review of Vote 37: Minister for Social Protection (17 Sep 2014)
Joanna Tuffy: No, after I went back to the Minister.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Review of Vote 37: Minister for Social Protection (17 Sep 2014)
Joanna Tuffy: Senator, you have come in a lot of times.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Review of Vote 37: Minister for Social Protection (17 Sep 2014)
Joanna Tuffy: Was Deputy Daly's question answered?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Review of Vote 37: Minister for Social Protection (17 Sep 2014)
Joanna Tuffy: We will move on to the working age employment supports programme. I refer members to page 19 of the Department's brief and page 6 of the committee secretariat notes.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Review of Vote 37: Minister for Social Protection (17 Sep 2014)
Joanna Tuffy: Before the Minister replies, strictly speaking that does not come under the area we are discussing but if the Minister wants to speak to it she may do so. Is Deputy Keating's question a general one but relating to this issue?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Review of Vote 37: Minister for Social Protection (17 Sep 2014)
Joanna Tuffy: We are taking it programme by programme.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Review of Vote 37: Minister for Social Protection (17 Sep 2014)
Joanna Tuffy: I call Deputy Daly on work-related income supports.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Review of Vote 37: Minister for Social Protection (17 Sep 2014)
Joanna Tuffy: I will take supplementary questions but I would like to move on to the other items and I ask committee members to keep it short.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Review of Vote 37: Minister for Social Protection (17 Sep 2014)
Joanna Tuffy: I thank the Minister. We will now consider the Revised Estimate and also proposed expenditure and performance for 2014 for each programme. We have an order in which committee members speak. It is Fianna Fáil, Sinn Féin, the Technical Group, the Government and then Deputies and Senators in the order in which they raise their hands, followed by non-committee Members. First, we...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Review of Vote 37: Minister for Social Protection (17 Sep 2014)
Joanna Tuffy: We will now discuss expenditure at the Department of Social Protection. I wish to draw the attention of the Minister and her officials to the fact that by virtue of section 17(2)(l) of the Defamation Act 2009, witnesses are protected by absolute privilege in respect of their evidence to this committee. However, if they are directed by the committee to cease giving evidence on a particular...