Results 2,981-3,000 of 7,652 for speaker:Joanna Tuffy
- Committee on Education and Social Protection: Select Sub-Committee on Education and Skills: Education and Training Boards Bill 2012: Committee Stage (17 Jan 2013)
Joanna Tuffy: Amendment No. 61 has been ruled out of order as it involves a potential charge on the Revenue.
- Committee on Education and Social Protection: Select Sub-Committee on Education and Skills: Education and Training Boards Bill 2012: Committee Stage (17 Jan 2013)
Joanna Tuffy: We were discussing amendments Nos. 45, 46, 47 and 60.
- Committee on Education and Social Protection: Select Sub-Committee on Education and Skills: Education and Training Boards Bill 2012: Committee Stage (17 Jan 2013)
Joanna Tuffy: In my experience of local authorities, although I have never served on a VEC, councillors make difficult and unpopular decisions. I was a member of a local authority that made provision for Traveller accommodation which was being resisted by the local community. We knew it was the right thing to do and we showed leadership and brought the community on board. People from the community are...
- Committee on Education and Social Protection: Select Sub-Committee on Education and Skills: Education and Training Boards Bill 2012: Committee Stage (17 Jan 2013)
Joanna Tuffy: Amendment No. 49 is an alternative to amendment No. 48. If amendment No. 48 is agreed amendment No. 49 cannot be moved. Amendments Nos. 50, 51 and 53 to 56, inclusive, are related. Therefore, amendments Nos. 48 to 51, inclusive, and Nos. 53 to 56, inclusive, will be discussed together.
- Committee on Education and Social Protection: Select Sub-Committee on Education and Skills: Education and Training Boards Bill 2012: Committee Stage (17 Jan 2013)
Joanna Tuffy: We will suspend the meeting because a vote has been called in the Dáil. The Minister may respond when we resume.
- Committee on Education and Social Protection: Select Sub-Committee on Education and Skills: Education and Training Boards Bill 2012: Committee Stage (17 Jan 2013)
Joanna Tuffy: Amendment No. 33 is an alternative to amendment No. 32. Amendments Nos. 32 and 33 will be discussed together. If the former is agreed, the latter cannot be moved.
- Committee on Education and Social Protection: Select Sub-Committee on Education and Skills: Education and Training Boards Bill 2012: Committee Stage (17 Jan 2013)
Joanna Tuffy: Amendment No. 34 has been ruled out of order, as it involves a potential charge on revenue.
- Committee on Education and Social Protection: Select Sub-Committee on Education and Skills: Education and Training Boards Bill 2012: Committee Stage (17 Jan 2013)
Joanna Tuffy: Amendments Nos. 36 to 40, inclusive, have been ruled out of order, as they involve a potential charge on revenue.
- Committee on Education and Social Protection: Select Sub-Committee on Education and Skills: Education and Training Boards Bill 2012: Committee Stage (17 Jan 2013)
Joanna Tuffy: Amendments Nos. 41, 43, 44 and 57 are related and may be discussed together. Does anyone wish to move amendment No. 41 on behalf of Deputy McConalogue? No.
- Committee on Education and Social Protection: Select Sub-Committee on Education and Skills: Education and Training Boards Bill 2012: Committee Stage (17 Jan 2013)
Joanna Tuffy: Amendments Nos. 45 to 47, inclusive, and amendment No. 60 are related and may be discussed together. As Deputy O'Brien has tabled amendment No. 60, I ask him to move amendment No. 45.
- Committee on Education and Social Protection: Select Sub-Committee on Education and Skills: Education and Training Boards Bill 2012: Committee Stage (17 Jan 2013)
Joanna Tuffy: The other grouped amendments might not be moved, but the Minister can comment now. This grouping consists of amendments Nos. 45 to 47, inclusive, and amendment No. 60.
- Committee on Education and Social Protection: Select Sub-Committee on Education and Skills: Education and Training Boards Bill 2012: Committee Stage (17 Jan 2013)
Joanna Tuffy: How stands the amendment?
- Committee on Education and Social Protection: Select Sub-Committee on Education and Skills: Education and Training Boards Bill 2012: Committee Stage (17 Jan 2013)
Joanna Tuffy: Amendment No. 29 in the names of Deputies Jonathan O'Brien and Clare Daly has been ruled out of order as it involves a potential charge on the Revenue.
- Committee on Education and Social Protection: Select Sub-Committee on Education and Skills: Education and Training Boards Bill 2012: Committee Stage (17 Jan 2013)
Joanna Tuffy: Amendments Nos. 30, 31, 35, 42 and 58 are related and may be discussed together.
- Committee on Education and Social Protection: Select Sub-Committee on Education and Skills: Education and Training Boards Bill 2012: Committee Stage (17 Jan 2013)
Joanna Tuffy: My colleagues may be aware that I am opposed in principle to gender quotas. The issue in this case is that even if the same legislative provisions regarding the selection of candidates as will apply to general elections were also to apply to local elections, those provisions relate only to the nomination of candidates. The bottom line is that voters will ultimately determine the gender mix...
- Committee on Education and Social Protection: Select Sub-Committee on Education and Skills: Education and Training Boards Bill 2012: Committee Stage (17 Jan 2013)
Joanna Tuffy: I note that Deputy Jonathan O'Brien has just arrived and one of the amendments we are discussing is amendment No. 18, in his name. Does Deputy O'Brien wish to speak on the amendment or make any comment or would he prefer to wait until the amendment is moved?
- Committee on Education and Social Protection: Select Sub-Committee on Education and Skills: Education and Training Boards Bill 2012: Committee Stage (17 Jan 2013)
Joanna Tuffy: Thank you, Deputy. We will deal with that when we get to it.
- Committee on Education and Social Protection: Select Sub-Committee on Education and Skills: Education and Training Boards Bill 2012: Committee Stage (17 Jan 2013)
Joanna Tuffy: Deputy Charlie McConalogue has already said that he is not pressing amendment No. 20.
- Committee on Education and Social Protection: Select Sub-Committee on Education and Skills: Education and Training Boards Bill 2012: Committee Stage (17 Jan 2013)
Joanna Tuffy: Amendments Nos. 24 to 27, inclusive, are related and may be discussed together.
- Committee on Education and Social Protection: Select Sub-Committee on Education and Skills: Education and Training Boards Bill 2012: Committee Stage (17 Jan 2013)
Joanna Tuffy: Do you wish to discuss amendment No. 16? It is being discussed with amendments Nos. 9 and 10.