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Local Government (Charges) Bill 2009 [Seanad]: Second Stage (Resumed) (9 Jul 2009)

Joanna Tuffy: ...which it has decided is doing great. Many of those hit will be people on middle incomes. Other examples of this are the public sector pension levy and the proposals to introduce third level fees. It is easy for someone to state that he or she does not have a second property - I do not - and to shrug his or her shoulders. I know some people who built holiday homes and who privately...

Land and Conveyancing Bill 2008 [Seanad]: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (1 Jul 2009)

Joanna Tuffy: ...where it has been common to insert a nominal rent with provision for a review by reference to the consumer price index or a fixed increase in order to ensure that lessees do not acquire rights to a fee simple. For the record, I have in the past practised as a solicitor but I no longer do so.

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

Joanna Tuffy: I move amendment No. 6: In page 21, between lines 23 and 24, to insert the following: "(3) Subject to this Act a fee simple shall be freely alienable by the owner thereof.". On Committee Stage, the Minister said he would examine this amendment. While section 9(2) does not rule against inalienability, the rule itself is contained in an Act repealed by section 8(3), thus the rule is not stated...

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...

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.

Written Answers — Early Childhood Education: Early Childhood Education (12 May 2009)

Joanna Tuffy: ...will provide further clarification on the early childhood and education scheme; if her attention has been drawn to the fact that some providers operate for 41 weeks of the year and require extra fees in order to pay for new equipment and so on; if it is the case that they are limited to charging €240 a month for 38 weeks of the year if they sign up to the scheme; and if she will make a...

Order of Business (9 Apr 2009)

Joanna Tuffy: ...been open since November 2007 and is twiddling its thumbs. It will cost €300,000 to run this year but has no legal powers to do the work it is supposed to do. The issue of exorbitant management fees and bad maintenance services by management companies is serious, and that Bill would give that agency powers to deal with those issues. The Government has been promising that legislation...

Unemployment Levels: Motion (11 Mar 2009)

Joanna Tuffy: ..., it is much better for them to attend college rather than go on the dole. The Minister for Education and Science, Deputy Batt O'Keeffe, recently made the point that the abolition of third level fees did nothing to improve access to college. The opposite is the case. HEA reports show that, since the Labour Party abolished fees in 1998, participation rates in third level education have...

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...

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...

Planning Issues. (5 Feb 2009)

Joanna Tuffy: That is not what he would have done when he was in opposition. He was against these fees then.

Written Answers — Planning Issues: Planning Issues (27 Jan 2009)

Joanna Tuffy: Question 1078: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government if he has plans to abolish or reduce the fee of €50 charged to ordinary members of the public who make submissions or observations in relation to planning applications; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [1452/09]

Written Answers — Tax Code: Tax Code (18 Nov 2008)

Joanna Tuffy: ...by tax covenanters in respect of covenants in favour of adults aged 65 years or over; and if this tax relief has been used by any of the covenanters or covenantees to help pay private nursing home fees. [41037/08]

Education Cuts: Motion (29 Oct 2008)

Joanna Tuffy: ...tackle educational disadvantage including the leaving certificate applied, Breaking the Cycle and the Early Start programmes while expanding the transition year programme and abolishing third level fees. The progress that followed included increased participation by school leavers in third level, including those from the lower socio-economic groups. Clondalkin, in my Dublin Mid-West...

Schools Refurbishment. (23 Oct 2008)

Joanna Tuffy: ...blow due to increased demand. The school also had to hire expensive gas heaters at a cost of €700 because it could no longer heat the school. A sum of €750,000 has been spent on consultation fees and moving prefabricated buildings from one site to another as part of the project. The prefabricated buildings on the site cost the Department €10,000 per month to rent. Clearly, putting...

Financial Resolution No. 15: (General) (Resumed) (23 Oct 2008)

Joanna Tuffy: ...the Labour Party when in Government resulted in more people, from all socio-economic backgrounds, going to college. Even groups whose participation in third level education had diminished before fees were abolished have increased their rate of participation.

Financial Resolution No. 15: (General) (Resumed) (23 Oct 2008)

Joanna Tuffy: ...and it is no wonder there is unease among the strain in Fianna Fáil that has social progress in mind. We can make progressive moves in times of economic hardship. For example, the abolition of fees was funded by the abolition of a tax covenant break. Basically, the money was taken from the wealthy and used to provide universal access to third level education. Similar progressive...

Written Answers — Tax Code: Tax Code (2 Oct 2008)

Joanna Tuffy: Question 107: To ask the Minister for Finance the position regarding the abolition of certain tax covenanting arrangements that applied before the abolition of third level tuition fees; the amount estimated as saved by his Department each year by the abolition of those tax covenanting arrangements; and the amount spent on this covenanting scheme in the year that preceded the year it was...

Written Answers — Higher Education Grants: Higher Education Grants (24 Sep 2008)

Joanna Tuffy: Question 1757: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the funding, grant aid or fee remission available to third level part time students who have low incomes; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [30824/08]

Written Answers — Third Level Fees: Third Level Fees (24 Sep 2008)

Joanna Tuffy: Question 1860: To ask the Minister for Education and Science if his attention has been drawn to the practice of universities waiving fees for postgraduate courses in respect of the children of lecturers and professors from the universities concerned; if his Department has a role in approving such waivers; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [30825/08]