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- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Social Welfare Benefits: Discussion with Department of Social Protection (20 Nov 2013)
Joanna Tuffy: We want people to be covered.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Social Welfare Benefits: Discussion with Department of Social Protection (20 Nov 2013)
Joanna Tuffy: Is this with regard to casual dockets?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Social Welfare Benefits: Discussion with Department of Social Protection (20 Nov 2013)
Joanna Tuffy: Did the advisory group examine all of those matters? If stamps could be paid for jobseeker's benefit, for example, what percentage would that entail?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Social Welfare Benefits: Discussion with Department of Social Protection (20 Nov 2013)
Joanna Tuffy: Either.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Social Welfare Benefits: Discussion with Department of Social Protection (20 Nov 2013)
Joanna Tuffy: Is that not jumping to a figure that the self-employed should pay for the pension and adding all of that on just to get jobseeker's benefit? At present they pay 4% for the State pension and surely it should not take another 11% to provide for jobseeker's benefit.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Social Welfare Benefits: Discussion with Department of Social Protection (20 Nov 2013)
Joanna Tuffy: Did the advisory group examine the matter?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Social Welfare Benefits: Discussion with Department of Social Protection (20 Nov 2013)
Joanna Tuffy: All right.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Social Welfare Benefits: Discussion with Department of Social Protection (20 Nov 2013)
Joanna Tuffy: All right.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Social Welfare Benefits: Discussion with Department of Social Protection (20 Nov 2013)
Joanna Tuffy: I thank Ms Kennedy and Ms Mooney for their attendance and I thank the members for their contributions.
- Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Rent Supplement Scheme Eligibility (26 Nov 2013)
Joanna Tuffy: 413. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if she will provide an update on the entitlement to rent supplement (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [50784/13]
- Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Social and Affordable Housing Eligibility (26 Nov 2013)
Joanna Tuffy: 490. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he will provide an update on the entitlement to social housing (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [50785/13]
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Business of Joint Committee (27 Nov 2013)
Joanna Tuffy: No apologies have been received. At the request of the broadcasting and recording services, I ask members to ensure their mobile telephones are switched off completely and not just left in silent mode. A policy briefing on today's public business has been circulated to members. We will go into private session to deal with the minutes and certain other matters.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Business of Joint Committee (27 Nov 2013)
Joanna Tuffy: I apologise for the delay but there were some matters we had to agree in private before going into public session. There are EU legislative proposals for scrutiny by the committee and it is proposed that the proposals listed in schedule B as distributed to members do not warrant further scrutiny. Is that agreed? Agreed.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Accreditation for the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland Facility in Bahrain: Discussion (27 Nov 2013)
Joanna Tuffy: The next item on the agenda is accreditation of the Bahrain facility of the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland. A report on the accreditation of the Bahrain facility of the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland was prepared by Ceartas, Irish Lawyers for Human Rights, in May of this year. That body wrote to the committee requesting an opportunity to raise the issue with us and, accordingly,...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Accreditation for the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland Facility in Bahrain: Discussion (27 Nov 2013)
Joanna Tuffy: Does Mr. Liston wish to add to that?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Accreditation for the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland Facility in Bahrain: Discussion (27 Nov 2013)
Joanna Tuffy: What do the witnesses want the committee to do to follow up on this?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Accreditation for the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland Facility in Bahrain: Discussion (27 Nov 2013)
Joanna Tuffy: Does the committee wish to write to the Minister along the lines suggested by Dr. Ó Cuinn? We could forward a similarly worded letter to the Medical Council. Do members wish to make any suggestions?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Accreditation for the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland Facility in Bahrain: Discussion (27 Nov 2013)
Joanna Tuffy: Do members agree with the suggestion?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Accreditation for the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland Facility in Bahrain: Discussion (27 Nov 2013)
Joanna Tuffy: Okay.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Accreditation for the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland Facility in Bahrain: Discussion (27 Nov 2013)
Joanna Tuffy: It will be in the New Year.