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- Committee on Education and Social Protection: Select Sub-Committee on Social Protection: Estimates for Public Services 2013
Vote 37 - Social Protection (Revised) (26 Jun 2013) Joanna Tuffy: What did the Deputy say about the targets?
- Committee on Education and Social Protection: Select Sub-Committee on Social Protection: Estimates for Public Services 2013
Vote 37 - Social Protection (Revised) (26 Jun 2013) Joanna Tuffy: That last comment is very relevant to the next programme that we will discuss.
- Committee on Education and Social Protection: Select Sub-Committee on Social Protection: Estimates for Public Services 2013
Vote 37 - Social Protection (Revised) (26 Jun 2013) Joanna Tuffy: I have a few questions for the Minister. Are there plans to introduce a provision that compels employers to pay pension contributions for their employees? The OECD report made that suggestion. Perhaps the Minister can answer my question when she responds to the queries posed by Deputy Butler.
- Committee on Education and Social Protection: Select Sub-Committee on Social Protection: Estimates for Public Services 2013
Vote 37 - Social Protection (Revised) (26 Jun 2013) Joanna Tuffy: Yes, we could.
- Committee on Education and Social Protection: Select Sub-Committee on Social Protection: Estimates for Public Services 2013
Vote 37 - Social Protection (Revised) (26 Jun 2013) Joanna Tuffy: We will probably have a further meeting on that.
- Committee on Education and Social Protection: Select Sub-Committee on Social Protection: Estimates for Public Services 2013
Vote 37 - Social Protection (Revised) (26 Jun 2013) Joanna Tuffy: I wish to discuss the working age income supports programme. The secretariat's briefing is on pages 10 to 13 and the Department's briefing is from page 26 onwards. I call on Deputy O'Dea to commence.
- Committee on Education and Social Protection: Select Sub-Committee on Social Protection: Estimates for Public Services 2013
Vote 37 - Social Protection (Revised) (26 Jun 2013) Joanna Tuffy: I wish to move on to the next programme on pensions.
- Committee on Education and Social Protection: Select Sub-Committee on Social Protection: Estimates for Public Services 2013
Vote 37 - Social Protection (Revised) (26 Jun 2013) Joanna Tuffy: We can go into more detail about that matter later.
- Committee on Education and Social Protection: Select Sub-Committee on Social Protection: Estimates for Public Services 2013
Vote 37 - Social Protection (Revised) (26 Jun 2013) Joanna Tuffy: Are there further questions?
- Committee on Education and Social Protection: Select Sub-Committee on Social Protection: Estimates for Public Services 2013
Vote 37 - Social Protection (Revised) (26 Jun 2013) Joanna Tuffy: There was an Estimate, but expenditure increased because of the extra people involved. Why not include this in the original Estimate?
- Committee on Education and Social Protection: Select Sub-Committee on Social Protection: Estimates for Public Services 2013
Vote 37 - Social Protection (Revised) (26 Jun 2013) Joanna Tuffy: We will move to the pension programmes on page 21 of the Department's briefing document. It is dealt with on page 6 of the committee secretariat's briefing document.
- Committee on Education and Social Protection: Select Sub-Committee on Social Protection: Estimates for Public Services 2013
Vote 37 - Social Protection (Revised) (26 Jun 2013) Joanna Tuffy: Before moving to a programme by programme consideration of the Revised Estimates, we will begin with questions on the general position. I refer members to the departmental brief on page 7 of the circulated document and the briefing material from the committee secretariat on page 5.
- Committee on Education and Social Protection: Select Sub-Committee on Social Protection: Estimates for Public Services 2013
Vote 37 - Social Protection (Revised) (26 Jun 2013) Joanna Tuffy: I welcome the Minister for Social Protection, Deputy Joan Burton. We are meeting this afternoon to consider the Revised Estimates for Public Services at the Department of Social Protection, Vote 37. As Members will have seen the 2013 Revised Estimate was presented to the Dáil in a new programme-based format. This means that the Estimate, as presented, contains the following...
- Topical Issue Debate: Decline in Town Centres (20 Jun 2013)
Joanna Tuffy: The Minister of State is over time. Could he quickly complete his response?
- Topical Issue Debate: Decline in Town Centres (20 Jun 2013)
Joanna Tuffy: I must ask the Minister of State-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Third Level Student Grant System: Discussion with SUSI (19 Jun 2013)
Joanna Tuffy: I thank the representatives of SUSI, headed by Ms Jacinta Stewart and her colleagues. Our meetings with SUSI have shown how a committee can be effective in holding a State body to account. We have raised the issues brought to us by constituents and members of the public and SUSI has put in place actions to prevent those problems from arising again. The committee would appreciate being kept...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Third Level Student Grant System: Discussion with SUSI (19 Jun 2013)
Joanna Tuffy: I have a couple of questions. It is best to leave the issue raised by Deputy McConalogue until next week in order that we can decide on the specifics of our correspondence to the Minister. I would not want to give the wrong impression. If the Minister introduced an order he could not make people retrospectively eligible for grants by way of legislation. I may be wrong but I do not think...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Third Level Student Grant System: Discussion with SUSI (19 Jun 2013)
Joanna Tuffy: We need to know exactly what we want to write. I will put it on the agenda for next week. We can give the committee the go-ahead but I would like to know what exactly the committee is writing.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Third Level Student Grant System: Discussion with SUSI (19 Jun 2013)
Joanna Tuffy: I understand.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Third Level Student Grant System: Discussion with SUSI (19 Jun 2013)
Joanna Tuffy: We can do that. I want to be clear about what we will say because we are in public session. It will almost certainly not mean that people who would not qualify for a grant now will somehow qualify for one because of some future action. The scheme is in place.