Results 501-520 of 7,652 for speaker:Joanna Tuffy
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Estimates for Public Services 2015 - Vote 37: Minister for Social Protection (22 Sep 2015)
Joanna Tuffy: The committee will discuss Vote 37, the Social Insurance Fund, Department of Social Protection. I wish to draw the attention of the Minister and her officials to the fact that by virtue of section 17(2)(l) of the Defamation Act 2009, witnesses are protected by absolute privilege in respect of their evidence to this committee. However, if they are directed by the committee to cease giving...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Estimates for Public Services 2015 - Vote 37: Minister for Social Protection (22 Sep 2015)
Joanna Tuffy: Thank you, Minister. I wish to reiterate that this meeting is split into two parts, the first of which looks at performance information included in the social protection Estimate. I refer members to the output information set out in the Estimate for the Department and to the briefing provided by the committee secretariat on the output information. Members have some questions for the...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Estimates for Public Services 2015 - Vote 37: Minister for Social Protection (22 Sep 2015)
Joanna Tuffy: I will stop the Minister and bring in Deputy Ó Snodaigh at this point because there might be a supplementary question to be answered.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Estimates for Public Services 2015 - Vote 37: Minister for Social Protection (22 Sep 2015)
Joanna Tuffy: Does anyone else wish to contribute at this stage? Did Deputy Jim Daly indicate that he wishes to speak?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Estimates for Public Services 2015 - Vote 37: Minister for Social Protection (22 Sep 2015)
Joanna Tuffy: No, not yet.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Estimates for Public Services 2015 - Vote 37: Minister for Social Protection (22 Sep 2015)
Joanna Tuffy: I call Deputy Brendan Ryan.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Estimates for Public Services 2015 - Vote 37: Minister for Social Protection (22 Sep 2015)
Joanna Tuffy: They are issues we can take into account on the next occasion.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Estimates for Public Services 2015 - Vote 37: Minister for Social Protection (22 Sep 2015)
Joanna Tuffy: To a certain extent, a compromise is probably needed, as one needs a bit of both. We will look at this issue after the meeting and probably make recommendations arising from this discussion.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Estimates for Public Services 2015 - Vote 37: Minister for Social Protection (22 Sep 2015)
Joanna Tuffy: We will move on to more general issues, but the guidance provided by the Department states output performance measures should not relate to internal processes, events, milestones or other deliverables. It further states there may be a need for these to be communicated in other ways but they are not outputs. That is a source of tension between the Department and the committee. We received a...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Estimates for Public Services 2015 - Vote 37: Minister for Social Protection (22 Sep 2015)
Joanna Tuffy: Yes.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Estimates for Public Services 2015 - Vote 37: Minister for Social Protection (22 Sep 2015)
Joanna Tuffy: We will try to wrap this up now so we can move on to the more general areas. I will allow a lot of flexibility.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Estimates for Public Services 2015 - Vote 37: Minister for Social Protection (22 Sep 2015)
Joanna Tuffy: That is a good idea.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Estimates for Public Services 2015 - Vote 37: Minister for Social Protection (22 Sep 2015)
Joanna Tuffy: What has been proposed is a good idea. We have to work together and we need common ground to move towards this type of model. It is a question of how we get there. We cannot do it all at once but it is a good idea to focus on one part. We will come back to the Minister on that and then we can figure out what areas are those on which we would like to focus. We have probably exhausted...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Estimates for Public Services 2015 - Vote 37: Minister for Social Protection (22 Sep 2015)
Joanna Tuffy: Is a mobile telephone switched on in the Deputy's vicinity?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Estimates for Public Services 2015 - Vote 37: Minister for Social Protection (22 Sep 2015)
Joanna Tuffy: I will ask the Minister to reply to each question from members in this round for questions.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Estimates for Public Services 2015 - Vote 37: Minister for Social Protection (22 Sep 2015)
Joanna Tuffy: Sorry, Deputy Butler-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Estimates for Public Services 2015 - Vote 37: Minister for Social Protection (22 Sep 2015)
Joanna Tuffy: On that issue, Deputy Butler has done much work on this matter for the committee. He has the support of the whole committee, on a cross-party basis, that something should be done. If in the budget the Minister introduces tax reductions for the self-employed, this would be the ideal time to introduce this measure. People would then see exactly where their money is going. That is the great...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Estimates for Public Services 2015 - Vote 37: Minister for Social Protection (22 Sep 2015)
Joanna Tuffy: Does Deputy Noel Harrington wish to say something on that issue?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Estimates for Public Services 2015 - Vote 37: Minister for Social Protection (22 Sep 2015)
Joanna Tuffy: Yes.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Estimates for Public Services 2015 - Vote 37: Minister for Social Protection (22 Sep 2015)
Joanna Tuffy: I ask the Minister to reply and I will ask a couple of further questions afterwards. Following on from Deputy Conaghan's question, does she have any update on the roll-out of the Intreo service?