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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Forthcoming Employment, Social Policy, Health and Consumer Affairs Council: Discussion with Minister for Social Protection (26 Sep 2012)

Joanna Tuffy: Yes, I apologise.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Forthcoming Employment, Social Policy, Health and Consumer Affairs Council: Discussion with Minister for Social Protection (26 Sep 2012)

Joanna Tuffy: Yes. I call Senator Moloney, only on this point.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Forthcoming Employment, Social Policy, Health and Consumer Affairs Council: Discussion with Minister for Social Protection (26 Sep 2012)

Joanna Tuffy: Fair enough, but there was an order agreed by the committee at the beginning of today's business.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Forthcoming Employment, Social Policy, Health and Consumer Affairs Council: Discussion with Minister for Social Protection (26 Sep 2012)

Joanna Tuffy: We cannot. We adopted an order. I will allow Senator Moloney on this matter. Other than that, we will stick to the rules we agreed.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Forthcoming Employment, Social Policy, Health and Consumer Affairs Council: Discussion with Minister for Social Protection (26 Sep 2012)

Joanna Tuffy: We said we would move on to the pre-budget discussion at 11 a.m.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Forthcoming Employment, Social Policy, Health and Consumer Affairs Council: Discussion with Minister for Social Protection (26 Sep 2012)

Joanna Tuffy: We are straying into areas that are outside the remit of this committee.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Forthcoming Employment, Social Policy, Health and Consumer Affairs Council: Discussion with Minister for Social Protection (26 Sep 2012)

Joanna Tuffy: I will allow supplementary questions but I remind members that we agreed at the outset that we would move to discussing the budget at 11 a.m. The pre-budget discussion is important, clearly, and I ask that the three members who indicated a desire to ask questions be brief.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Forthcoming Employment, Social Policy, Health and Consumer Affairs Council: Discussion with Minister for Social Protection (26 Sep 2012)

Joanna Tuffy: Those matters are not related to agenda.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Forthcoming Employment, Social Policy, Health and Consumer Affairs Council: Discussion with Minister for Social Protection (26 Sep 2012)

Joanna Tuffy: No, they are not. This item on the agenda relates to the EU meeting the Minister is about to attend. We will then discuss the budget at which point the Senator can raise broader issues.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Forthcoming Employment, Social Policy, Health and Consumer Affairs Council: Discussion with Minister for Social Protection (26 Sep 2012)

Joanna Tuffy: That is a budget issue.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Forthcoming Employment, Social Policy, Health and Consumer Affairs Council: Discussion with Minister for Social Protection (26 Sep 2012)

Joanna Tuffy: That is a budgetary matter. We are on No. 1 on the agenda.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Forthcoming Employment, Social Policy, Health and Consumer Affairs Council: Discussion with Minister for Social Protection (26 Sep 2012)

Joanna Tuffy: How does it relate to the particular meeting the Minister is scheduled to attend?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Forthcoming Employment, Social Policy, Health and Consumer Affairs Council: Discussion with Minister for Social Protection (26 Sep 2012)

Joanna Tuffy: I ask the Senator to conclude.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Forthcoming Employment, Social Policy, Health and Consumer Affairs Council: Discussion with Minister for Social Protection (26 Sep 2012)

Joanna Tuffy: It is not a matter for this agenda. We will move on to the pre-budget discussion.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Forthcoming Employment, Social Policy, Health and Consumer Affairs Council: Discussion with Minister for Social Protection (26 Sep 2012)

Joanna Tuffy: I have given the Senator and other members much latitude. At the beginning of the meeting we agreed move on at 11 a.m.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Forthcoming Employment, Social Policy, Health and Consumer Affairs Council: Discussion with Minister for Social Protection (26 Sep 2012)

Joanna Tuffy: No, because it does not relate to the item under discussion. That is my ruling. I ask the Minister to make her presentation on the budget.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Budget 2013: Discussion with Minister for Social Protection (26 Sep 2012)

Joanna Tuffy: The Minister has agreed to attend the committee today to brief us on the pre-budget situation in the Department of Social Protection and to fulfil the programme for Government commitment that Oireachtas committees will engage with Ministers on a whole-of-year approach to the budget and the annual Estimates. I welcome, from the Department, Mr. O'Raghallaigh, who has remained with us from the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Budget 2013: Discussion with Minister for Social Protection (26 Sep 2012)

Joanna Tuffy: I am aware Senator Power must leave for a vote in the Seanad. Would the Senator like to put a question to the Minister before she leaves?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Budget 2013: Discussion with Minister for Social Protection (26 Sep 2012)

Joanna Tuffy: Will the Deputy wrap up as he has been speaking for ten minutes.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Budget 2013: Discussion with Minister for Social Protection (26 Sep 2012)

Joanna Tuffy: I must ask the Deputy to conclude.