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Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects Status (24 Mar 2015)

Joanna Tuffy: 781. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the position regarding the planned extension to Lucan Community College in County Dublin; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [11441/15]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Administration (24 Mar 2015)

Joanna Tuffy: 821. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the position regarding administrative control of schools (details supplied) in Dublin 10; if consent was sought to change these schools to co-educational schools; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [12041/15]

Committee on Education and Social Protection: Select Sub-Committee on Social Protection: Social Welfare (Miscellaneous Provisions) 2015: Committee Stage (25 Mar 2015)

Joanna Tuffy: This meeting has been convened for the purpose of considering the Social Welfare (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2015 which was referred to the select sub-committee by order of the Dáil on 4 March. The main purpose of this Bill is to amend the Social Welfare (Consolidation) Act 2005 to provide for the introduction of the back-to-work family dividend which was announced in budget 2015 to...

Committee on Education and Social Protection: Select Sub-Committee on Social Protection: Social Welfare (Miscellaneous Provisions) 2015: Committee Stage (25 Mar 2015)

Joanna Tuffy: Amendment No. 1 is out of order as it is in conflict with the Bill.

Committee on Education and Social Protection: Select Sub-Committee on Social Protection: Social Welfare (Miscellaneous Provisions) 2015: Committee Stage (25 Mar 2015)

Joanna Tuffy: Amendment No. 1, which Deputy Collins mentioned, proposes that the provisions pertaining to sections 4, 5 and 6 would not proceed without the introduction of adequate affordable child care provision and would be reviewed within six months of the enactment of the Bill. The proposed amendment would impose an external conditional element on the commencement of these sections and therefore the...

Committee on Education and Social Protection: Select Sub-Committee on Social Protection: Social Welfare (Miscellaneous Provisions) 2015: Committee Stage (25 Mar 2015)

Joanna Tuffy: The amendment in the name of Deputy Joan Collins was ruled out of order. We need not deal with it any further, unless anyone wants to make a particular point.

Committee on Education and Social Protection: Select Sub-Committee on Social Protection: Social Welfare (Miscellaneous Provisions) 2015: Committee Stage (25 Mar 2015)

Joanna Tuffy: Deputy Aengus Ó Snodaigh abstained.

Committee on Education and Social Protection: Select Sub-Committee on Social Protection: Social Welfare (Miscellaneous Provisions) 2015: Committee Stage (25 Mar 2015)

Joanna Tuffy: Amendments Nos. 2 and 8 are related and will be discussed together.

Committee on Education and Social Protection: Select Sub-Committee on Social Protection: Social Welfare (Miscellaneous Provisions) 2015: Committee Stage (25 Mar 2015)

Joanna Tuffy: Amendments Nos. 3 and 18 are related and will be discussed together.

Committee on Education and Social Protection: Select Sub-Committee on Social Protection: Social Welfare (Miscellaneous Provisions) 2015: Committee Stage (25 Mar 2015)

Joanna Tuffy: We have not got to that yet. That is not a matter for the Minister of State. I will come to that next.

Committee on Education and Social Protection: Select Sub-Committee on Social Protection: Social Welfare (Miscellaneous Provisions) 2015: Committee Stage (25 Mar 2015)

Joanna Tuffy: Amendments Nos. 4 and 5 are ruled out of order because of a potential charge on the Exchequer and because they are in conflict with the principle of the Bill. I will set out the full explanation. Amendment No. 4 provides for the deletion of the requirement in place for a person who is likely to require full-time care and attention for at least 12 consecutive months in order to be entitled...

Committee on Education and Social Protection: Select Sub-Committee on Social Protection: Social Welfare (Miscellaneous Provisions) 2015: Committee Stage (25 Mar 2015)

Joanna Tuffy: We will come to that issue afterwards.

Committee on Education and Social Protection: Select Sub-Committee on Social Protection: Social Welfare (Miscellaneous Provisions) 2015: Committee Stage (25 Mar 2015)

Joanna Tuffy: I repeat that amendment No. 5 is in conflict with the principles of the Bill as read a Second Time and represents a potential charge on the Exchequer because it could allow greater access to the schemes. We are not getting into the business of debating the amendment.

Committee on Education and Social Protection: Select Sub-Committee on Social Protection: Social Welfare (Miscellaneous Provisions) 2015: Committee Stage (25 Mar 2015)

Joanna Tuffy: That is the ruling.

Committee on Education and Social Protection: Select Sub-Committee on Social Protection: Social Welfare (Miscellaneous Provisions) 2015: Committee Stage (25 Mar 2015)

Joanna Tuffy: I make it as Chairman.

Committee on Education and Social Protection: Select Sub-Committee on Social Protection: Social Welfare (Miscellaneous Provisions) 2015: Committee Stage (25 Mar 2015)

Joanna Tuffy: Just to be clear, the Ceann Comhairle ultimately decides.

Committee on Education and Social Protection: Select Sub-Committee on Social Protection: Social Welfare (Miscellaneous Provisions) 2015: Committee Stage (25 Mar 2015)

Joanna Tuffy: I presume the reason is that it is not the money of general practitioners to spend. Deputy Ray Butler said a general practitioner might be more inclined to go the distance in helping someone because he or she did not have to worry about the cost, but it is not his or her problem-----

Committee on Education and Social Protection: Select Sub-Committee on Social Protection: Social Welfare (Miscellaneous Provisions) 2015: Committee Stage (25 Mar 2015)

Joanna Tuffy: They have to do the job and be independent in the way they-----

Committee on Education and Social Protection: Select Sub-Committee on Social Protection: Social Welfare (Miscellaneous Provisions) 2015: Committee Stage (25 Mar 2015)

Joanna Tuffy: I am assuming this is the logic, but it is actually the Ceann Comhairle who ruled on this matter.

Committee on Education and Social Protection: Select Sub-Committee on Social Protection: Social Welfare (Miscellaneous Provisions) 2015: Committee Stage (25 Mar 2015)

Joanna Tuffy: What Deputy Joan Collins could not do is press the amendment.