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- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Implementation of Junior Cycle Student Award: Minister for Education and Skills (13 May 2014)
Joanna Tuffy: I would not say there is broad agreement on that point, Senator.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Implementation of Junior Cycle Student Award: Minister for Education and Skills (13 May 2014)
Joanna Tuffy: Senator Healy Eames cannot make such a proposal because she is not a member of the committee.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Implementation of Junior Cycle Student Award: Minister for Education and Skills (13 May 2014)
Joanna Tuffy: Such a proposal must come-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Implementation of Junior Cycle Student Award: Minister for Education and Skills (13 May 2014)
Joanna Tuffy: Anybody-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Implementation of Junior Cycle Student Award: Minister for Education and Skills (13 May 2014)
Joanna Tuffy: Just to be clear, any Member of the Oireachtas is entitled to attend or speak-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Implementation of Junior Cycle Student Award: Minister for Education and Skills (13 May 2014)
Joanna Tuffy: Priority is given to committee members in terms of the ordering of contributions. It would not be appropriate for the Senator to propose-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Implementation of Junior Cycle Student Award: Minister for Education and Skills (13 May 2014)
Joanna Tuffy: Yes, but technically the Senator cannot propose-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Implementation of Junior Cycle Student Award: Minister for Education and Skills (13 May 2014)
Joanna Tuffy: Does the Senator have a question? That is really what we are here for.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Implementation of Junior Cycle Student Award: Minister for Education and Skills (13 May 2014)
Joanna Tuffy: I do not think it would be appropriate to accept such a motion, to be honest. I now call on the Minister to respond.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Implementation of Junior Cycle Student Award: Minister for Education and Skills (13 May 2014)
Joanna Tuffy: Can I bring up Senator Moran first and then I will go back to you?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Implementation of Junior Cycle Student Award: Minister for Education and Skills (13 May 2014)
Joanna Tuffy: Okay. Very briefly.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Implementation of Junior Cycle Student Award: Minister for Education and Skills (13 May 2014)
Joanna Tuffy: On that point, when I initially heard about the reforms, my instinct was conservative. Now, I am an absolute advocate of the reforms, as proposed, to move away from the State exam. The more I thought about it and the more I read about it, the more in favour of it I became. My daughter is nine years of age and will be ten in the summer. I do not want her to have to be under the kind of...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Implementation of Junior Cycle Student Award: Minister for Education and Skills (13 May 2014)
Joanna Tuffy: The Senator will have an opportunity to come back in afterwards.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Implementation of Junior Cycle Student Award: Minister for Education and Skills (13 May 2014)
Joanna Tuffy: Before the Minister responds, I wish to remind him that Deputy Daly asked a question on peer correcting. Perhaps he will answer the Deputy's question as well.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Implementation of Junior Cycle Student Award: Minister for Education and Skills (13 May 2014)
Joanna Tuffy: The Senator has gone well over her time.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Implementation of Junior Cycle Student Award: Minister for Education and Skills (13 May 2014)
Joanna Tuffy: Many questions have been asked. Does the Minister wish to answer?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Implementation of Junior Cycle Student Award: Minister for Education and Skills (13 May 2014)
Joanna Tuffy: Is that the Senator's phone?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Implementation of Junior Cycle Student Award: Minister for Education and Skills (13 May 2014)
Joanna Tuffy: Deputy McConalogue has exceeded his three minutes. He can come in again afterwards.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Implementation of Junior Cycle Student Award: Minister for Education and Skills (13 May 2014)
Joanna Tuffy: Very quickly.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Implementation of Junior Cycle Student Award: Minister for Education and Skills (13 May 2014)
Joanna Tuffy: I call Deputy O'Brien.