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- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Pensions Reform: Discussion (5 Mar 2014)
Joanna Tuffy: I can take more questions or can revert to the witnesses.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Pensions Reform: Discussion (5 Mar 2014)
Joanna Tuffy: I will start with the Irish Brokers' Association.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Pensions Reform: Discussion (5 Mar 2014)
Joanna Tuffy: If anyone has a mobile phone please switch it off because there is a lot of interference.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Pensions Reform: Discussion (5 Mar 2014)
Joanna Tuffy: Yes.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Pensions Reform: Discussion (5 Mar 2014)
Joanna Tuffy: Does Dr. Quinn want to deal with the questions?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Pensions Reform: Discussion (5 Mar 2014)
Joanna Tuffy: Mr. Aidan McLoughlin mentioned the self-employed in response to a question from Deputy Ray Butler. The self-employed have a very favourable situation with regard to the State contributory pension. When one looks at all the actuarial calculations, self-employed people make a contribution of almost 5% and get the State contributory pension. The issue of public versus private has come up....
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Pensions Reform: Discussion (5 Mar 2014)
Joanna Tuffy: It would be good to get the figures. Perhaps Dr. Orlaigh Quinn might refer to that.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Pensions Reform: Discussion (5 Mar 2014)
Joanna Tuffy: Are there any further questions?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Pensions Reform: Discussion (5 Mar 2014)
Joanna Tuffy: One would not want an emigrant to return from Britain-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Pensions Reform: Discussion (5 Mar 2014)
Joanna Tuffy: Should the State not top it up to the level of what they would have received if they had been here all the time?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Pensions Reform: Discussion (5 Mar 2014)
Joanna Tuffy: Does Dr. Quinn wish to come in?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Pensions Reform: Discussion (5 Mar 2014)
Joanna Tuffy: It is just that they are under the-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Pensions Reform: Discussion (5 Mar 2014)
Joanna Tuffy: Deputy Ryan raised the issue of the pension fund levy. Did the industry not look for that? What about all the profits that are made? When Mr. McLoughlin refers to pensioners, and most pensioners do not get a huge income out of their pensions, then somewhere along the line someone is making a lot of money.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Pensions Reform: Discussion (5 Mar 2014)
Joanna Tuffy: Does Deputy Ryan wish to add anything?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Pensions Reform: Discussion (5 Mar 2014)
Joanna Tuffy: People would probably channel their money somewhere else.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Pensions Reform: Discussion (5 Mar 2014)
Joanna Tuffy: Dr. Quinn would you like to clarify anything?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Pensions Reform: Discussion (5 Mar 2014)
Joanna Tuffy: Are there any other questions? This has been a very good and informative discussion. I thank everybody involved, including the members of the committee.
- Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Accommodation (11 Mar 2014)
Joanna Tuffy: 139. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the position regarding the requirement for accommodation at a school (details supplied) in County Dublin; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11810/14]
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Procedures (11 Mar 2014)
Joanna Tuffy: 509. To ask the Minister for Health where doctors can refer patients for treatment of minor dermatology ailments which are no longer treated a St. James's Hospital; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11587/14]
- Government's Priorities for the Year Ahead: Statements (Resumed) (13 Mar 2014)
Joanna Tuffy: The Deputy cannot use the word "untruth" either.