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Committee on Education and Social Protection: Select Sub-Committee on Social Protection: Social Welfare Bill 2015: Committee Stage (11 Nov 2015)

Joanna Tuffy: Yes, perhaps when we see it we will go back to the Minister for the second time.

Committee on Education and Social Protection: Select Sub-Committee on Social Protection: Social Welfare Bill 2015: Committee Stage (11 Nov 2015)

Joanna Tuffy: There is another eight minutes before the next Topical Issue is taken. The debate was late starting, so Deputy Catherine Byrne can speak. We could dispose of this amendment before the Minister of State leaves.

Committee on Education and Social Protection: Select Sub-Committee on Social Protection: Social Welfare Bill 2015: Committee Stage (11 Nov 2015)

Joanna Tuffy: We have covered a lot of ground. Does the Minister of State want to respond as quickly as possible?

Committee on Education and Social Protection: Select Sub-Committee on Social Protection: Social Welfare Bill 2015: Committee Stage (11 Nov 2015)

Joanna Tuffy: We will hold off on agreeing to the amendment.

Committee on Education and Social Protection: Select Sub-Committee on Social Protection: Social Welfare Bill 2015: Committee Stage (11 Nov 2015)

Joanna Tuffy: We will resume in public session. Did the Minister of State want to add anything further to the discussion on amendment No. 22?

Committee on Education and Social Protection: Select Sub-Committee on Social Protection: Social Welfare Bill 2015: Committee Stage (11 Nov 2015)

Joanna Tuffy: Amendment No. 24, in the name of Deputy Ó Snodaigh, has been ruled out of order as it involves a charge on the Exchequer. The amendment seeks to provide that in recovering overpayments, the Department of Social Protection would ensure that a claimant's income would not fall below the relevant supplementary welfare allowance rate for the claimant or his or her family. The amendment...

Committee on Education and Social Protection: Select Sub-Committee on Social Protection: Social Welfare Bill 2015: Committee Stage (11 Nov 2015)

Joanna Tuffy: It is a loss in income.

Committee on Education and Social Protection: Select Sub-Committee on Social Protection: Social Welfare Bill 2015: Committee Stage (11 Nov 2015)

Joanna Tuffy: Amendment No. 25, in the name of Deputy Ó Snodaigh, has been ruled of out order in accordance with Standing Order 156(3). It seeks to require the Minister to introduce statute of limitations to govern the recovery of historical repayments. Overpayment amounts are recouped to the Social Insurance Fund. If they were not recouped, this would be a charge on the Exchequer.

Committee on Education and Social Protection: Select Sub-Committee on Social Protection: Social Welfare Bill 2015: Committee Stage (11 Nov 2015)

Joanna Tuffy: Amendment No. 27, in the name of Deputy Ó Snodaigh, has been ruled out of order because it imposes a potential charge on the Exchequer as it proposes to increase payments. Amendment No. 28, in the name of Deputy O'Dea, has been ruled of out order. It proposes to delete section 4 of the Social Welfare and Pensions Act 2012 which provides for the application of the one-parent family...

Committee on Education and Social Protection: Select Sub-Committee on Social Protection: Social Welfare Bill 2015: Committee Stage (11 Nov 2015)

Joanna Tuffy: Amendments Nos. 31 to 33, inclusive, are related and will be discussed together.

Committee on Education and Social Protection: Select Sub-Committee on Social Protection: Social Welfare Bill 2015: Committee Stage (11 Nov 2015)

Joanna Tuffy: Amendments Nos. 39 and 40 are related and may be discussed together by agreement.

Committee on Education and Social Protection: Select Sub-Committee on Social Protection: Message to Dáil (11 Nov 2015)

Joanna Tuffy: In accordance with Standing Order 87, the following message will be sent to the Dáil:The Select Sub-Committee on Social Protection has completed its consideration of the Social Welfare Bill 2015 and has made amendments thereto.

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Student Grant Scheme Reform (12 Nov 2015)

Joanna Tuffy: 185. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills her plans to revise the rules regarding student grants for second-chance students (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [39986/15]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Business of Joint Committee (18 Nov 2015)

Joanna Tuffy: At the request of the broadcasting and recording services, members are asked to turn off their mobile phones completely or put them in flight mode. The proceedings of the meeting will be broacast live on Virgin Media channel 207, Eir Vision channel 504 and Sky channel 574 from 1 p.m. to 2.30 p.m. Documents have been circulated to members on the database in line with the procedures for...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Special Needs Provision in Second Level Schools: SNPA, NCSE and NAPD (18 Nov 2015)

Joanna Tuffy: I ask all those present to switch off their mobile telephones or set them to the safe or flight mode. The purpose of the meeting is to discuss special needs provision in second level education. The joint committee is examining the wider area of special needs in education and will publish a report on the matter, for which Senator Mary Moran has been appointed rapporteur. I welcome, from the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Special Needs Provision in Second Level Schools: SNPA, NCSE and NAPD (18 Nov 2015)

Joanna Tuffy: Could members please concentrate on second level education? The chairperson designate for the National Council for Special Education will be here next week, so there will be an opportunity then to pursue those issues. Members should keep their focus on second level. If some of the questions feed into second level issues, the witnesses might briefly return to them. We do not want to get...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Special Needs Provision in Second Level Schools: SNPA, NCSE and NAPD (18 Nov 2015)

Joanna Tuffy: That is fine. There are many questions for the witnesses.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Special Needs Provision in Second Level Schools: SNPA, NCSE and NAPD (18 Nov 2015)

Joanna Tuffy: I had a question that fits with that. I support the integration and mainstreaming of children, moving children with special needs into mainstream education. Anecdotally, I am aware of some people who put their children into mainstream primary school but then when it comes to second level they move them to special needs. Is that a big phenomenon? If so, what is going on? Does it signify...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Special Needs Provision in Second Level Schools: SNPA, NCSE and NAPD (18 Nov 2015)

Joanna Tuffy: It is food for thought.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Special Needs Provision in Second Level Schools: SNPA, NCSE and NAPD (18 Nov 2015)

Joanna Tuffy: Ms Byrne, can you cover some of the other questions?