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- Committee on Education and Social Protection: Select Sub-Committee on Education and Skills: Education and Training Boards Bill 2012: Committee Stage (17 Jan 2013)
Joanna Tuffy: My colleagues may be aware that I am opposed in principle to gender quotas. The issue in this case is that even if the same legislative provisions regarding the selection of candidates as will apply to general elections were also to apply to local elections, those provisions relate only to the nomination of candidates. The bottom line is that voters will ultimately determine the gender mix...
- Committee on Education and Social Protection: Select Sub-Committee on Education and Skills: Education and Training Boards Bill 2012: Committee Stage (17 Jan 2013)
Joanna Tuffy: Amendment No. 33 is an alternative to amendment No. 32. Amendments Nos. 32 and 33 will be discussed together. If the former is agreed, the latter cannot be moved.
- Committee on Education and Social Protection: Select Sub-Committee on Education and Skills: Education and Training Boards Bill 2012: Committee Stage (17 Jan 2013)
Joanna Tuffy: Amendment No. 34 has been ruled out of order, as it involves a potential charge on revenue.
- Committee on Education and Social Protection: Select Sub-Committee on Education and Skills: Education and Training Boards Bill 2012: Committee Stage (17 Jan 2013)
Joanna Tuffy: Amendments Nos. 36 to 40, inclusive, have been ruled out of order, as they involve a potential charge on revenue.
- Committee on Education and Social Protection: Select Sub-Committee on Education and Skills: Education and Training Boards Bill 2012: Committee Stage (17 Jan 2013)
Joanna Tuffy: Amendments Nos. 41, 43, 44 and 57 are related and may be discussed together. Does anyone wish to move amendment No. 41 on behalf of Deputy McConalogue? No.
- Committee on Education and Social Protection: Select Sub-Committee on Education and Skills: Education and Training Boards Bill 2012: Committee Stage (17 Jan 2013)
Joanna Tuffy: Amendments Nos. 45 to 47, inclusive, and amendment No. 60 are related and may be discussed together. As Deputy O'Brien has tabled amendment No. 60, I ask him to move amendment No. 45.
- Committee on Education and Social Protection: Select Sub-Committee on Education and Skills: Education and Training Boards Bill 2012: Committee Stage (17 Jan 2013)
Joanna Tuffy: The other grouped amendments might not be moved, but the Minister can comment now. This grouping consists of amendments Nos. 45 to 47, inclusive, and amendment No. 60.
- Committee on Education and Social Protection: Select Sub-Committee on Education and Skills: Education and Training Boards Bill 2012: Committee Stage (17 Jan 2013)
Joanna Tuffy: How stands the amendment?
- Committee on Education and Social Protection: Select Sub-Committee on Education and Skills: Education and Training Boards Bill 2012: Committee Stage (17 Jan 2013)
Joanna Tuffy: We will suspend the meeting because a vote has been called in the Dáil. The Minister may respond when we resume.
- Committee on Education and Social Protection: Select Sub-Committee on Education and Skills: Education and Training Boards Bill 2012: Committee Stage (17 Jan 2013)
Joanna Tuffy: We were discussing amendments Nos. 45, 46, 47 and 60.
- Committee on Education and Social Protection: Select Sub-Committee on Education and Skills: Education and Training Boards Bill 2012: Committee Stage (17 Jan 2013)
Joanna Tuffy: In my experience of local authorities, although I have never served on a VEC, councillors make difficult and unpopular decisions. I was a member of a local authority that made provision for Traveller accommodation which was being resisted by the local community. We knew it was the right thing to do and we showed leadership and brought the community on board. People from the community are...
- Committee on Education and Social Protection: Select Sub-Committee on Education and Skills: Education and Training Boards Bill 2012: Committee Stage (17 Jan 2013)
Joanna Tuffy: Amendment No. 49 is an alternative to amendment No. 48. If amendment No. 48 is agreed amendment No. 49 cannot be moved. Amendments Nos. 50, 51 and 53 to 56, inclusive, are related. Therefore, amendments Nos. 48 to 51, inclusive, and Nos. 53 to 56, inclusive, will be discussed together.
- Committee on Education and Social Protection: Select Sub-Committee on Education and Skills: Education and Training Boards Bill 2012: Committee Stage (17 Jan 2013)
Joanna Tuffy: How stands the amendment?
- Committee on Education and Social Protection: Select Sub-Committee on Education and Skills: Education and Training Boards Bill 2012: Committee Stage (17 Jan 2013)
Joanna Tuffy: Amendment No. 52 is out of order as it involves a potential charge on the Revenue.
- Committee on Education and Social Protection: Select Sub-Committee on Education and Skills: Education and Training Boards Bill 2012: Committee Stage (17 Jan 2013)
Joanna Tuffy: Amendment No. 61 has been ruled out of order as it involves a potential charge on the Revenue.
- Committee on Education and Social Protection: Select Sub-Committee on Education and Skills: Education and Training Boards Bill 2012: Committee Stage (17 Jan 2013)
Joanna Tuffy: Amendment No. 61 proposes that all ETB school boards of management shall include at least two members of the ETB and that at least one of those be present at any meeting of the board of management. The issue is that members of the ETB receive travel and subsistence expenses for attendance at the meetings and this amendment could give rise to a charge on the revenue, and that is the reason...
- Committee on Education and Social Protection: Select Sub-Committee on Education and Skills: Education and Training Boards Bill 2012: Committee Stage (17 Jan 2013)
Joanna Tuffy: We could discuss it further now briefly if members want to comment on that aspect of it but we cannot move the amendment. That is the rule. Standing Orders would have to be changed for us to do that.
- Committee on Education and Social Protection: Select Sub-Committee on Education and Skills: Education and Training Boards Bill 2012: Committee Stage (17 Jan 2013)
Joanna Tuffy: Amendments Nos. 63 and 64 are related and will be discussed together.
- Committee on Education and Social Protection: Select Sub-Committee on Education and Skills: Education and Training Boards Bill 2012: Committee Stage (17 Jan 2013)
Joanna Tuffy: Amendments Nos. 66 and 78 are related and will be discussed together.
- Committee on Education and Social Protection: Select Sub-Committee on Education and Skills: Education and Training Boards Bill 2012: Committee Stage (17 Jan 2013)
Joanna Tuffy: Amendments Nos. 67 and 69 are related and may be discussed together.