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- Social Welfare Bill 2010: Committee and Remaining Stages (9 Dec 2010)
Joanna Tuffy: It is an ideology of allowing some people to become very wealthy that is behind some of our economic problems. In terms of addressing those economic problems, we have an opportunity to re-balance the distribution of wealth in our society and to narrow the gap between rich and poor. If we were to take that approach, we would not cut social welfare, which is why the Labour Party opposed...
- Social Welfare Bill 2010: Committee and Remaining Stages (9 Dec 2010)
Joanna Tuffy: There are plenty of other options for the Government.
- Social Welfare Bill 2010: Committee and Remaining Stages (9 Dec 2010)
Joanna Tuffy: The Labour Party identified savings that could be made that did not involve social welfare cuts.
- Social Welfare Bill 2010: Committee and Remaining Stages (9 Dec 2010)
Joanna Tuffy: We will also reinvest a portion of those savings in job creation, which would hopefully reduce the social welfare budget even further.
- Social Welfare Bill 2010: Committee and Remaining Stages (9 Dec 2010)
Joanna Tuffy: The social welfare rates of payment should have been the last thing to go after. The point is that people on those payments spend their money in the economy. People who are wealthy will save their money and reduce their debt but those on social welfare spend their money in the domestic economy. We have lost an opportunity in this regard. Last year, when there was a flat rate cut to child...
- Written Answers — Eating Disorders: Eating Disorders (14 Dec 2010)
Joanna Tuffy: Question 157: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if funding is being made available, in certain cases, to persons suffering from eating disorders to enable them to complete treatment programmes at a centre (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [47206/10]
- Written Answers — Departmental Expenditure: Departmental Expenditure (14 Dec 2010)
Joanna Tuffy: Question 167: To ask the Minister for Transport the level of funding allocated to a scheme (details supplied) under the rural transport programme; if he will restate his commitment to continue funding this particular scheme into the future; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [47099/10]
- Written Answers — Environmental Policy: Environmental Policy (14 Dec 2010)
Joanna Tuffy: Question 263: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government the position regarding moneys contributed to the Global Climate Change Alliance; the person to whom this money will be allocated and the amount of same; the projects on which the money will be spent; the way the moneys will be administered; the oversight of the expenditure of the moneys that will take place;...
- Written Answers — Waste Management: Waste Management (15 Dec 2010)
Joanna Tuffy: Question 187: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government the steps that have been taken to ensure the Haulbowline site is in compliance with European Union directives; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [48002/10]
- Carbon Budget: Statements (16 Dec 2010)
Joanna Tuffy: On a point of order, I do not have the table to which the Minister referred in his statement.
- Carbon Budget: Statements (16 Dec 2010)
Joanna Tuffy: Today's statements come from the agreement in the original programme for Government that there would be a carbon budget. Originally, the carbon budget was contained and announced in the Budget Statement and then followed up by a statement by the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government the following day. This process has been watered down over the years to where it is now...
- Carbon Budget: Statements (16 Dec 2010)
Joanna Tuffy: Thank you Minister. It is important to have the table before responding, however, I will not be able to analyse it very well now. Climate change has dropped down the agenda. The Green Party has responded and its members do not talk about climate change as much as they used to. They have become more low key. I do not lay blame for that because other priorities have come to the fore....
- Funding for The Heritage Council (16 Dec 2010)
Joanna Tuffy: The Heritage Council's budget was cut by 30%, to â¬9 million, in 2010 and this year it has been reduced by 40%, to â¬4.49 million. A few years ago the budget was â¬20 million. It has gone down from â¬20 million to just under â¬5 million. The lost funding was used to send assistants into schools to help teachers and children with projects on their local heritage. It provided grants for...
- Written Answers — FÁS Training Programmes: FÁS Training Programmes (16 Dec 2010)
Joanna Tuffy: Question 23: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Education and Skills if she has received a detailed proposal for the reform and restructuring of FÃS by the board of that organisation; the contents of that proposal; when she expects to make a decision regarding the restructuring of FÃS; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [47393/10]
- Written Answers — FÁS Training Programmes: FÁS Training Programmes (16 Dec 2010)
Joanna Tuffy: Question 122: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Education and Skills the number of public sector bodies who have applied for and been approved for the FÃS work placement scheme to date; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [48023/10]
- Written Answers — FÁS Training Programmes: FÁS Training Programmes (16 Dec 2010)
Joanna Tuffy: Question 123: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Education and Skills the number of private employers who have applied for and been approved for the FÃS work placement scheme in 2009; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [48024/10]
- Written Answers — FÁS Training Programmes: FÁS Training Programmes (16 Dec 2010)
Joanna Tuffy: Question 124: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Education and Skills the number of applicants who have been placed and commenced work under the FÃS work placement programme; the location of these placements on a county basis; the FÃS areas at which work placements need to be filled in tabular form; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [48025/10]
- Written Answers — Schools Building Projects: Schools Building Projects (16 Dec 2010)
Joanna Tuffy: Question 125: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Education and Skills when the second level Vocational Education Committee school planned for Clonburris, Lucan will be built; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [48026/10]
- Written Answers — Schools Building Projects: Schools Building Projects (16 Dec 2010)
Joanna Tuffy: Question 126: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Education and Skills the position regarding the purchase of land at St. Edmundsbury to build a national school to accommodate a school (details supplied) including the price of the land; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [48027/10]
- Written Answers — Higher Education Grants: Higher Education Grants (16 Dec 2010)
Joanna Tuffy: Question 127: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Education and Skills the steps she will take to ensure that maintenance grants are made available to third level students efficiently and in a timely manner; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [48028/10]