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- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Third Level Student Grant System: Discussion with SUSI (19 Jun 2013)
Joanna Tuffy: Deputy Dooley, first-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Third Level Student Grant System: Discussion with SUSI (19 Jun 2013)
Joanna Tuffy: The Deputy has been given great latitude and has made a speech. It is very much after the event because we debated this entire issue as a committee.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Third Level Student Grant System: Discussion with SUSI (19 Jun 2013)
Joanna Tuffy: Sorry, Deputy Dooley.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Third Level Student Grant System: Discussion with SUSI (19 Jun 2013)
Joanna Tuffy: First, the Deputy must go through the Chair. That is the rule. Second, he has to ask questions and be constructive. That is the purpose of this meeting and the reason we agreed it. If the Deputy has a brief final question we will move to the next speaker.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Third Level Student Grant System: Discussion with SUSI (19 Jun 2013)
Joanna Tuffy: I can take more questions if that is what Members wish.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Third Level Student Grant System: Discussion with SUSI (19 Jun 2013)
Joanna Tuffy: That has been answered.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Third Level Student Grant System: Discussion with SUSI (19 Jun 2013)
Joanna Tuffy: They have one big constituency.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Third Level Student Grant System: Discussion with SUSI (19 Jun 2013)
Joanna Tuffy: That is for tuition fees.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Third Level Student Grant System: Discussion with SUSI (19 Jun 2013)
Joanna Tuffy: May I call the witnesses and then come back to the Deputy?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Third Level Student Grant System: Discussion with SUSI (19 Jun 2013)
Joanna Tuffy: Deputy Ryan asked was there a forecast of applicants for this year.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Third Level Student Grant System: Discussion with SUSI (19 Jun 2013)
Joanna Tuffy: I have a couple of questions. It is best to leave the issue raised by Deputy McConalogue until next week in order that we can decide on the specifics of our correspondence to the Minister. I would not want to give the wrong impression. If the Minister introduced an order he could not make people retrospectively eligible for grants by way of legislation. I may be wrong but I do not think...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Third Level Student Grant System: Discussion with SUSI (19 Jun 2013)
Joanna Tuffy: We need to know exactly what we want to write. I will put it on the agenda for next week. We can give the committee the go-ahead but I would like to know what exactly the committee is writing.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Third Level Student Grant System: Discussion with SUSI (19 Jun 2013)
Joanna Tuffy: I understand.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Third Level Student Grant System: Discussion with SUSI (19 Jun 2013)
Joanna Tuffy: We can do that. I want to be clear about what we will say because we are in public session. It will almost certainly not mean that people who would not qualify for a grant now will somehow qualify for one because of some future action. The scheme is in place.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Third Level Student Grant System: Discussion with SUSI (19 Jun 2013)
Joanna Tuffy: That is fair enough. Deputy Dooley referred to constituency work. Health and social welfare are the areas which create the largest workload. It is not always the fault of Departments. It is the nature of the job. The tracker system will help Deputies and empower students to check their situation online.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Third Level Student Grant System: Discussion with SUSI (19 Jun 2013)
Joanna Tuffy: Thank you.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Third Level Student Grant System: Discussion with SUSI (19 Jun 2013)
Joanna Tuffy: I thank the representatives of SUSI, headed by Ms Jacinta Stewart and her colleagues. Our meetings with SUSI have shown how a committee can be effective in holding a State body to account. We have raised the issues brought to us by constituents and members of the public and SUSI has put in place actions to prevent those problems from arising again. The committee would appreciate being kept...
- Topical Issue Debate: Decline in Town Centres (20 Jun 2013)
Joanna Tuffy: The Minister of State is over time. Could he quickly complete his response?
- Topical Issue Debate: Decline in Town Centres (20 Jun 2013)
Joanna Tuffy: I must ask the Minister of State-----
- Committee on Education and Social Protection: Select Sub-Committee on Social Protection: Estimates for Public Services 2013
Vote 37 - Social Protection (Revised) (26 Jun 2013) Joanna Tuffy: I welcome the Minister for Social Protection, Deputy Joan Burton. We are meeting this afternoon to consider the Revised Estimates for Public Services at the Department of Social Protection, Vote 37. As Members will have seen the 2013 Revised Estimate was presented to the Dáil in a new programme-based format. This means that the Estimate, as presented, contains the following...