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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Rent Supplement Scheme: Discussion with Department of Social Protection (15 May 2013)

Joanna Tuffy: I welcome officials from the Department of Social Protection who will make a presentation on the rent supplement. I welcome Ms Helen Faughnan, Ms Jackie Harrington and Ms Lisa Doyle. By virtue of section 17(2)(l) of the Defamation Act 2009, witnesses are protected by absolute privilege in respect of the evidence they are to give this committee. If a witness is directed by the committee to...

Report on Offshore Oil and Gas Exploration: Statements (14 May 2013)

Joanna Tuffy: I ask the Minister to allow the Deputy to speak.

Report on Offshore Oil and Gas Exploration: Statements (14 May 2013)

Joanna Tuffy: Minister, please allow the Deputy to finish.

Report on Offshore Oil and Gas Exploration: Statements (14 May 2013)

Joanna Tuffy: There are about 13 minutes remaining.

Written Answers — Department of Health: Mental Health Services Provision (14 May 2013)

Joanna Tuffy: 601. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide an update on the promised additional community mental health staff; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22272/13]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Property Taxation Exemptions (14 May 2013)

Joanna Tuffy: 181. To ask the Minister for Finance if it is possible to apply for a full or partial exemption or waiver in respect of a private residence that has had works carried out to the property to adapt the house for an occupier that has a disability as part of the housing adaption for people with a disability grant scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22271/13]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Higher Education Authority Report (14 May 2013)

Joanna Tuffy: 260. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will clarify in the report School Completers What Next the way the following students categorised and also the way the study tallies with research carried out by the Higher Education Authority who were due last year to publish a report as part of its Who goes to College series of reports last published in 2006 those reports having...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Garda Transport Expenditure (14 May 2013)

Joanna Tuffy: 470. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if he will provide an update on the transport fleets for an Garda Síochána; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22461/13]

Written Answers — Department of Defence: Defence Forces Transport (14 May 2013)

Joanna Tuffy: 489. To ask the Minister for Defence if he will provide an update on the transport fleets for the Defence Forces; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22461/13]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Managing Back to School Costs: Discussion (8 May 2013)

Joanna Tuffy: The committee will produce a report which will include recommendations, and Deputy Ó Ríordáin is our rapporteur. At the end of last year we met patrons to discuss this issue and we have received submissions. We will draw up our report shortly and will keep the witnesses informed.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Managing Back to School Costs: Discussion (8 May 2013)

Joanna Tuffy: I will ask Mr. Finlay to contribute here.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Managing Back to School Costs: Discussion (8 May 2013)

Joanna Tuffy: That is interesting. I will make a couple of points. It was interesting what Deputy Butler stated about the shoes. My daughter is eight. She has her first communion on Saturday and I am still trying to buy shoes for it. I went into a shop of one of the named brands and it stops its children's range at size 3, and she takes a size 3. I wonder is she into adult shoes at eight years of...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Managing Back to School Costs: Discussion (8 May 2013)

Joanna Tuffy: I am afraid the Deputy is out of time.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Managing Back to School Costs: Discussion (8 May 2013)

Joanna Tuffy: I now invite the delegates to respond to members' points, beginning with Ms Áine Lynch.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Managing Back to School Costs: Discussion (8 May 2013)

Joanna Tuffy: Thank you, Ms Lynch. Does Ms Sullivan wish to respond?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Managing Back to School Costs: Discussion (8 May 2013)

Joanna Tuffy: Thank you, Ms Sullivan. I now invite Mr. Myers to respond.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Managing Back to School Costs: Discussion (8 May 2013)

Joanna Tuffy: Thank you, Mr. Myers. Ms Deane might now take the opportunity to comment.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Managing Back to School Costs: Discussion (8 May 2013)

Joanna Tuffy: I will bring in some other Deputies and there will probably be further questions after that. Deputies Ó Ríordáin and Butler have indicated.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Managing Back to School Costs: Discussion (8 May 2013)

Joanna Tuffy: I will now take questions from members. I call Deputy McConalogue.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Managing Back to School Costs: Discussion (8 May 2013)

Joanna Tuffy: I invite Ms Deane to speak on behalf of Society of St. Vincent de Paul.