Results 3,621-3,640 of 7,652 for speaker:Joanna Tuffy
- Electoral (Amendment) Bill 2011: Report and Final Stages (19 Jul 2011)
Joanna Tuffy: The section as amended by the Minister allows the commission a range of between 153 and 160 Deputies. Obviously the Minister originally intended the minimum number to be 153, which would have clearly been unconstitutional according to the preliminary census results as it would have meant that there would have been less than one Deputy for every 30,000 people. However, the new figure of 153...
- Electoral (Amendment) Bill 2011: Report and Final Stages (19 Jul 2011)
Joanna Tuffy: I am.
- Electoral (Amendment) Bill 2011: Report and Final Stages (19 Jul 2011)
Joanna Tuffy: I am talking about the numbers. The amendments are grouped.
- Electoral (Amendment) Bill 2011: Report and Final Stages (19 Jul 2011)
Joanna Tuffy: Other speakers have raised this issue at this stage. I can come in again if you wish and make the rest of the points then.
- Electoral (Amendment) Bill 2011: Report and Final Stages (19 Jul 2011)
Joanna Tuffy: This legislation will have become unconstitutional. That will never have occurred previously.
- Electoral (Amendment) Bill 2011: Report and Final Stages (19 Jul 2011)
Joanna Tuffy: I know.
- Electoral (Amendment) Bill 2011: Report and Final Stages (19 Jul 2011)
Joanna Tuffy: I do.
- Electoral (Amendment) Bill 2011: Report and Final Stages (19 Jul 2011)
Joanna Tuffy: The Minister has misunderstood me. I know he said the final report will not be issued until after the final census results. My point is that he thought it necessary to change from 152 to 153 in case 152 TDs was unconstitutional. I am saying that if the final census results show a greater population, the 153 TD provision could also be unconstitutional and, therefore, the Act establishing...
- Electoral (Amendment) Bill 2011: Report and Final Stages (19 Jul 2011)
Joanna Tuffy: The Minister will have to come back with amending legislation.
- Electoral (Amendment) Bill 2011: Report and Final Stages (19 Jul 2011)
Joanna Tuffy: I realise that it may not come to pass but if it did, that is what would happen. Never in the history of the State has a commission been asked to make the decision about cutting the number of TDs. It is only in the last two Electoral Acts that a range has been set. Previous commissions, however, ignored that and left the number at 166. In both 1998 and 2006, both commissions stated they...
- Communications Regulation (Postal Services) Bill 2010 [Seanad]: Report Stage (Resumed) (19 Jul 2011)
Joanna Tuffy: Deputy, your time is up. You can reply at the end of this section if you wish. Your time is well up. You had only two minutes.
- Communications Regulation (Postal Services) Bill 2010 [Seanad]: Report Stage (Resumed) (19 Jul 2011)
Joanna Tuffy: You can come back in at the end.
- Communications Regulation (Postal Services) Bill 2010 [Seanad]: Report Stage (Resumed) (19 Jul 2011)
Joanna Tuffy: You have been speaking for more than two minutes, for almost three and a half minutes.
- Communications Regulation (Postal Services) Bill 2010 [Seanad]: Report Stage (Resumed) (19 Jul 2011)
Joanna Tuffy: The Deputy should not invite contributions at this point. It is not Committee Stage.
- Communications Regulation (Postal Services) Bill 2010 [Seanad]: Report Stage (Resumed) (19 Jul 2011)
Joanna Tuffy: The Deputy's time is up.
- Communications Regulation (Postal Services) Bill 2010 [Seanad]: Report Stage (Resumed) (19 Jul 2011)
Joanna Tuffy: Perhaps the Minister can return to the matter under discussion.
- School Transport (19 Jul 2011)
Joanna Tuffy: The Deputy's time is up.
- Written Answers — Schools Building Projects: Schools Building Projects (19 Jul 2011)
Joanna Tuffy: Question 189: To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the steps he will take to ensure more open, transparent and regularly updated information to the public about applications by schools for school buildings and extensions; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21104/11]
- Written Answers — Departmental Schemes: Departmental Schemes (19 Jul 2011)
Joanna Tuffy: Question 268: To ask the Minister for Social Protection if a person who is unemployed but is not in receipt of any payments or benefit from social welfare will be able to participate in the national internship scheme; if so, the circumstances in which they may participate; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [21010/11]
- Written Answers — Planning Issues: Planning Issues (19 Jul 2011)
Joanna Tuffy: Question 352: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government if he has any information available to him regarding the amount of land zoned for residential development that is surplus to current housing needs; his estimates in that regard; the steps he plans to take to address the issue of there being too much land rezoned for future housing development; and if he...