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Seanad: Registration of Deeds and Title Bill 2004: Committee Stage. (14 Jun 2005)

Joanna Tuffy: ...to the running of the Land Registry, is one member of staff on the board enough? Will the Minister have an opportunity to talk to people affected by the new changes? I am concerned about potential fee increases. I am a conveyancing practitioner and substantial fee increases were introduced a few years ago when other changes were made to the Land Registry. Fees were increased by a few...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Education Budget: Discussion with Minister for Education and Skills (6 Mar 2013)

Joanna Tuffy: Okay, I wish to ask a couple of questions myself. As regards fee-paying schools, our committee is looking at the Finnish education system. By law, schools in Finland - including private schools - cannot charge fees. That is an interesting system. They do have private schools in the Finnish system but they are not allowed to charge fees, so they must find extra funds elsewhere. In...

Planning Issues. (5 Feb 2009)

Joanna Tuffy: The first question was about the Planning (Strategic Infrastructure) Act 2006 which set the fee for making a submission to An Bord Pleanála at €50. When the Bill was going through the House in 2006, the Minister who was then an Opposition Deputy, was opposed to the charging of fees. He said he did not think people should be charged for making submissions under this Act. He also called...

Land and Conveyancing Law Reform Bill 2006 [Seanad]: Report and Final Stages (1 Jul 2009)

Joanna Tuffy: ...the purposes of section 11(3) (c)". The Bill prohibits leases for lives but by stating they are void, it gives them no effect whatsoever. This is not in line with the manner in which, for example, fees tail are created, whereby the purported grant of a fee tail operates as a grant of a fee simple. A purported lease for lives should operate as an indefinite lease terminable at will.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Managing Back to School Costs: Discussion (10 Oct 2012)

Joanna Tuffy: Are there any other members offering? As nobody is offering I will raise a number of issues. It was suggested to me that an upfront enrolment fee can be a deterrent for low-income families to apply for a place in such a school. Should there be a higher capitation fee for schools located in older school buildings? Obviously people attending schools with newer buildings will not agree, but...

Seanad: Order of Business. (5 Mar 2003)

Joanna Tuffy: I support the request made by Senator Cummins yesterday that the Minister for Education and Science be called to the House to discuss the issue of third level fees. We have asked for this many times and it is now quite late in the academic year. There have been threats and hints about what will happen next year. It is not fair that prospective students and their parents do not know whether...

Written Answers — Hospitals Building Programme: Hospitals Building Programme (29 Feb 2012)

Joanna Tuffy: Question 184: To ask the Minister for Health the total expenditure to date on the proposed new national children's hospital, including any cost for planning, design, architect fees, engineers fees, reports and so on; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11678/12]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Education Budget: Discussion with Minister for Education and Skills (6 Mar 2013)

Joanna Tuffy: I wish to clarify that in Finland the private schools are State-funded, like here, but they are not allowed to charge fees. Their tuition is paid for by the State but they cannot charge fees. I will now ask the Minister to respond.

Seanad: Order of Business. (6 Feb 2003)

Joanna Tuffy: I agree with Senator Brian Hayes. The Leader of the House and other Fianna Fáil and Progressive Democrats politicians should come clean regarding their positions on the introduction of third level fees. Despite what people like Senator Norris are saying, the available evidence shows that the participation rate of people from all social backgrounds has improved since the abolition of third...

Order of Business (24 Feb 2009)

Joanna Tuffy: Many apartment owners may have difficulty paying their management fees and the managing agents will probably sue them for the fees and there will be court cases. If the National Property Services Regulatory Authority was given legal powers under the property services (regulatory) Bill, it could mediate on this issue. The office is open and the staff are paid, and so on. When is it proposed...

Land and Conveyancing Law Reform Bill 2006 [Seanad]: Report and Final Stages (1 Jul 2009)

Joanna Tuffy: I move amendment No. 10: In page 24, between lines 15 and 16, to insert the following: "(4) Where on the commencement of this section, or on a person becoming entitled to a fee tail after such commencement, another person's estate or interest in land is extinguished by virtue of subsection (3), the second-mentioned person may apply to the court within 12 years of such extinguishment for an...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Review of Apprenticeship Training: Discussion (9 Jul 2014)

Joanna Tuffy: ...has been raised with me that they fear that reducing the years for apprenticeship will reduce the quality and standards of the education provided to the apprentices. That is one point. On the fees, one point the Department should take note of is that there is an issue of inequity, which has been raised with me, in the sense that an apprentice doing a shorter block release pays the same...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Review of Apprenticeship Training: Discussion (9 Jul 2014)

Joanna Tuffy: Issues have been raised with me by people who contacted me on the topic. I revert to the fees issue which was raised by Senator Jim D'Arcy. One of the recommendations in the Department's summary is that apprentices continue to be paid both on and off the job, with no reduction in earnings during periods spent in education and training institutions. The payment of fees very much contradict...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Vote 26 - Update on Pre-Budget and Policy Issues: Minister for Education and Skills (24 Sep 2014)

Joanna Tuffy: Senator Power also raised the issue of student contributions to third level education. When tuition fees were abolished in 1997 or 1998, one of the reasons given was that the fee was considered a barrier to students, particularly those from lower middle-income backgrounds who could not qualify for grants because they were just above the threshold. The Higher Education Authority, HEA,...

Seanad: Education Funding: Motion (9 Oct 2002)

Joanna Tuffy: ...the Minister. First, all those politicians, including the Minister for Education and Science, Deputy Noel Dempsey, and prominent educationalists now calling for the reintroduction of third level fees have apparently not even read the report of Clancy and Wall on the social background of higher education entrants. They have certainly not analysed any of the report's findings on the...

Education and Training: Motion (Resumed) (13 Apr 2011)

Joanna Tuffy: ...a customer. However, students are not customers, no more than primary schoolchildren. A right to a third level education has been established. There is substantial evidence that when third level fees were in place, they were a barrier to participation in college. I cannot go into all of the statistics, but there have been substantial increases, as covered in the report, Who Goes to...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Education Progamme Fees: Quality and Qualifications Ireland (19 Feb 2014)

Joanna Tuffy: I welcome everybody to the meeting. The agenda for today's meeting is the fees charged by Quality and Qualifications Ireland for the education programmes delivered through community and voluntary organisations. This matter is being discussed by the committee on foot of correspondence received recently on the application of new fees by Quality and Qualifications Ireland in respect of...

Seanad: Order of Business. (10 Dec 2002)

Joanna Tuffy: To my knowledge, the first Irish politician to call for free third level education was James Connolly. Let no one fool themselves that bringing back fees is a progressive measure.

Seanad: Order of Business. (15 May 2003)

Joanna Tuffy: I support Senator Ryan's amendment to the Order of Business in order that we can discuss the proposal to reintroduce third level fees. Deputy Batt O'Keeffe admitted in yesterday's Irish Independent that participation at third level by those in lower and middle income groups had increased substantially.

Seanad: Order of Business. (15 May 2003)

Joanna Tuffy: Participation by all socio-economic groups has increased since the abolition of third level fees. The Government is not only trying to hit middle income earners but also the PAYE sector. No matter what the income threshold is, PAYE workers would be hit unfairly.