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Committee on Education and Social Protection: Select Sub-Committee on Social Protection: Gender Recognition Bill 2014: Committee Stage (17 Jun 2015)

Joanna Tuffy: Acceptance of amendment No. 9, in the name of Deputy Ó Snodaigh, would involve the deletion of section 7.

Committee on Education and Social Protection: Select Sub-Committee on Social Protection: Gender Recognition Bill 2014: Committee Stage (17 Jun 2015)

Joanna Tuffy: Amendments Nos. 11 and 22 to 32, inclusive, are related and will be discussed together. Amendments Nos. 23 and 24 are physical alternatives to amendment No. 22, which means that if amendment No. 22 passes they fall. Amendments Nos. 26 to 30, inclusive, are physical alternatives to amendment No. 25, and amendments Nos. 27 to 29, inclusive, are physical alternatives to amendment No. 26.

Committee on Education and Social Protection: Select Sub-Committee on Social Protection: Gender Recognition Bill 2014: Committee Stage (17 Jun 2015)

Joanna Tuffy: The committee had some difference of opinion when it was examining this issue. When the Minister of State was doing up a separate section on the provisions for those aged 16 to 18, was the issue of children's rights in the Constitution a factor? Was that taken into account in terms of the interests of the child?

Committee on Education and Social Protection: Select Sub-Committee on Social Protection: Gender Recognition Bill 2014: Committee Stage (17 Jun 2015)

Joanna Tuffy: Amendments Nos. 12 to 16, inclusive, 21, 38 to 40, inclusive, and 43 are related and will be discussed together.

Committee on Education and Social Protection: Select Sub-Committee on Social Protection: Gender Recognition Bill 2014: Committee Stage (17 Jun 2015)

Joanna Tuffy: It will be the Deputy and Deputy Aengus Ó Snodaigh who will press the amendment.

Committee on Education and Social Protection: Select Sub-Committee on Social Protection: Gender Recognition Bill 2014: Committee Stage (17 Jun 2015)

Joanna Tuffy: Amendment No. 14 has already been discussed with amendment No. 12 and if it is agreed then amendments Nos. 15, 16 and 16acannot be moved.

Committee on Education and Social Protection: Select Sub-Committee on Social Protection: Gender Recognition Bill 2014: Committee Stage (17 Jun 2015)

Joanna Tuffy: Amendments Nos. 33 to 35, inclusive, are related and will be discussed together.

Committee on Education and Social Protection: Select Sub-Committee on Social Protection: Gender Recognition Bill 2014: Committee Stage (17 Jun 2015)

Joanna Tuffy: Does the Deputy wish to press the amendment?

Committee on Education and Social Protection: Select Sub-Committee on Social Protection: Gender Recognition Bill 2014: Committee Stage (17 Jun 2015)

Joanna Tuffy: Amendments Nos. 36, 42 and 44 are related and may be discussed together by agreement.

Committee on Education and Social Protection: Select Sub-Committee on Social Protection: Gender Recognition Bill 2014: Committee Stage (17 Jun 2015)

Joanna Tuffy: Please conclude.

Committee on Education and Social Protection: Select Sub-Committee on Social Protection: Message to Dáil (17 Jun 2015)

Joanna Tuffy: In accordance with Standing Order 87, the following message will be sent to the Clerk of the Dáil:The Select Sub-Committee on Social Protection has completed its consideration of the Gender Recognition Bill 2014 and has made amendments thereto. I thank the Minister and his officials, the committee members and those in the gallery.

Urban Regeneration and Housing Bill 2015: Second Stage (Resumed) (18 Jun 2015)

Joanna Tuffy: The Deputy should withdraw that.

Written Answers — Department of Finance: VAT Exemptions (18 Jun 2015)

Joanna Tuffy: 77. To ask the Minister for Finance his views on removing value added tax from incontinence pads for elderly persons and others who use these products; if he is aware that following petitioning by the British public, the United Kingdom Government removed value added tax from incontinence products (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24333/15]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Banking Sector Staff (23 Jun 2015)

Joanna Tuffy: 259. To ask the Minister for Finance if he is aware that Allied Irish Banks is currently developing proposals to outsource work and staff from the application and development management teams within its information technology division to a third-party service provider, which decision will have a huge impact on customers and staff; if he will request the bank's senior management to reconsider...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: State Examinations Commission: Engagement with Chair-Designate. (24 Jun 2015)

Joanna Tuffy: At the request of the broadcasting and recording services, witnesses and those in the Visitors Gallery are requested to ensure that for the duration of the meeting all mobile telephones are turned off completely or switched to airplane safe or flight mode, depending on the device. I welcome our witness, Mr. Pat Burke. I advise the witness that, by virtue of section 17(2)(l) of the Defamation...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: State Examinations Commission: Engagement with Chair-Designate. (24 Jun 2015)

Joanna Tuffy: I add my own best wishes to Mr. Burke in his new role. The experience he has outlined is very relevant to his new role, as is the case for his fellow commissioners. I am aware that the new commission was appointed through the new process under the Public Appointments Service, which is also very welcome. Does Mr. Burke have any responses to the issues raised?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: State Examinations Commission: Engagement with Chair-Designate. (24 Jun 2015)

Joanna Tuffy: That is not within the remit of the State Examinations Commission.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: State Examinations Commission: Engagement with Chair-Designate. (24 Jun 2015)

Joanna Tuffy: I, Senator O'Donnell and our Vice Chairman, Deputy Jim Daly, went to Austria recently to look at the apprenticeship system there. In recent years, Austria, and countries with similar systems, introduced a state exam whereby a person who had taken the apprenticeship route could take the state exam and then move on to university or another third level institution. If we considered a similar...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: State Examinations Commission: Engagement with Chair-Designate. (24 Jun 2015)

Joanna Tuffy: If we were to do it, would the commission have the capacity to oversee it? We have an apprenticeship system.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: State Examinations Commission: Engagement with Chair-Designate. (24 Jun 2015)

Joanna Tuffy: If a repeat exam were introduced for these cases, there would be a question in regard to other students who just want to repeat the exam.