Results 961-980 of 7,652 for speaker:Joanna Tuffy
- Children and Family Relationships Bill 2015: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (12 Mar 2015)
Joanna Tuffy: Okay, fair enough. I suppose we are revisiting issues we have already addressed. The issues Deputy Coppinger raises should be dealt with in other ways and not through the granting of guardianship, because we do not do that for married fathers and mothers or unmarried mothers. There is another side to it. I briefly worked as a solicitor and when I was an apprentice, I worked on some...
- Children and Family Relationships Bill 2015: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (12 Mar 2015)
Joanna Tuffy: I may not have done as much work on this as Deputy Coppinger. Many of the people who have suffered domestic violence are married and have husbands. That is agreed by everybody. Nobody is going to put conditions on the guardianship rights of a married father, as we almost certainly could not do so under the Constitution. The family is based on marriage in the Constitution. I presume that...
- Children and Family Relationships Bill 2015: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (12 Mar 2015)
Joanna Tuffy: I do not believe that could happen, and it would not be a good idea. I understand the issues of violence, as women constitute the majority of victims. Women have automatic guardianship rights, no matter what, and it is not as if there would never be an issue. There were proposals from my party on this. The ruling is that there is automatic guardianship if a person is on a birth...
- Children and Family Relationships Bill 2015: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (12 Mar 2015)
Joanna Tuffy: The majority are not.
- Children and Family Relationships Bill 2015: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (12 Mar 2015)
Joanna Tuffy: I understand what she is saying. That should not be used against everybody. She said a particular phenomenon should be used to rule out a right for everybody. As Deputy Shortall said, does she have evidence that unmarried fathers are more likely than married fathers to be violent? What does evidence does she have to back up her claim? I am not aware of any such evidence. Many other...
- Children and Family Relationships Bill 2015: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (12 Mar 2015)
Joanna Tuffy: There are a lot of amendments. Is the time allowed only two minutes?
- Children and Family Relationships Bill 2015: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (12 Mar 2015)
Joanna Tuffy: I thought there was a group.
- Children and Family Relationships Bill 2015: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (12 Mar 2015)
Joanna Tuffy: First, I want to apologise for any confusion I caused earlier. I had picked up the Committee Stage amendments by accident - mea culpa. I very much agree with the points made by Deputies Shortall, Boyd Barrett and Mac Lochlainn. What I would say that is a little different is that I accept progress is being made in this legislation in that more unmarried fathers will qualify for guardianship...
- Committee on Education and Social Protection: Select Sub-Committee on Education and Skills: Estimates for Public Services 2015
Vote 26 - Department of Education and Skills (Revised) (4 Mar 2015) Joanna Tuffy: The select committee is in public session. I welcome the Minister for Education and Skills, Deputy Jan O'Sullivan, the Minister of State with responsibility for skills, research and innovation, Deputy Damien English, and the Department officials. We are here to consider the 2015 Revised Estimates for Public Services at the Department of Education and Skills - Vote 26. The timetable for the...
- Committee on Education and Social Protection: Select Sub-Committee on Education and Skills: Estimates for Public Services 2015
Vote 26 - Department of Education and Skills (Revised) (4 Mar 2015) Joanna Tuffy: We will go through the programmes, starting with programme A, which relates to first, second and early years education. I ask members to keep their remarks brief and stick to programme A.
- Committee on Education and Social Protection: Select Sub-Committee on Education and Skills: Estimates for Public Services 2015
Vote 26 - Department of Education and Skills (Revised) (4 Mar 2015) Joanna Tuffy: It is described as first, second and early years education in the Department's briefing document.
- Committee on Education and Social Protection: Select Sub-Committee on Education and Skills: Estimates for Public Services 2015
Vote 26 - Department of Education and Skills (Revised) (4 Mar 2015) Joanna Tuffy: It is all listed. The list includes administration, primary teacher salaries, secondary teacher salaries, grants to education and training boards re vocational teacher salaries, special needs assistant salaries, school non-teaching staff salaries, school transport, grants to schools, grants to primary and post-primary educational bodies, teacher education and so on.
- Committee on Education and Social Protection: Select Sub-Committee on Education and Skills: Estimates for Public Services 2015
Vote 26 - Department of Education and Skills (Revised) (4 Mar 2015) Joanna Tuffy: Does anyone else have questions on programme A?
- Committee on Education and Social Protection: Select Sub-Committee on Education and Skills: Estimates for Public Services 2015
Vote 26 - Department of Education and Skills (Revised) (4 Mar 2015) Joanna Tuffy: That is programme D.
- Committee on Education and Social Protection: Select Sub-Committee on Education and Skills: Estimates for Public Services 2015
Vote 26 - Department of Education and Skills (Revised) (4 Mar 2015) Joanna Tuffy: No, not at this time.
- Committee on Education and Social Protection: Select Sub-Committee on Education and Skills: Estimates for Public Services 2015
Vote 26 - Department of Education and Skills (Revised) (4 Mar 2015) Joanna Tuffy: The Deputy can make those comments at the end.
- Committee on Education and Social Protection: Select Sub-Committee on Education and Skills: Estimates for Public Services 2015
Vote 26 - Department of Education and Skills (Revised) (4 Mar 2015) Joanna Tuffy: We will move on now to the next programme, programme B - skills development. This covers grants to SOLAS for administration and training, grants and supports, European Social Fund and European Globalisation Adjustment Fund supports, grants to SOLAS for further education and training activities, grants to Quality and Qualifications Ireland, superannuation payable to former FÁS, SOLAS and...
- Committee on Education and Social Protection: Select Sub-Committee on Education and Skills: Estimates for Public Services 2015
Vote 26 - Department of Education and Skills (Revised) (4 Mar 2015) Joanna Tuffy: Did Deputy McConalogue want to come in with any questions?
- Committee on Education and Social Protection: Select Sub-Committee on Education and Skills: Estimates for Public Services 2015
Vote 26 - Department of Education and Skills (Revised) (4 Mar 2015) Joanna Tuffy: I am just asking in case there is any duplication of questions.
- Committee on Education and Social Protection: Select Sub-Committee on Education and Skills: Estimates for Public Services 2015
Vote 26 - Department of Education and Skills (Revised) (4 Mar 2015) Joanna Tuffy: Will there be an evaluation of Springboard? For instance, what is the completion rate and how successful is it in terms of participants getting employment afterwards? Is there anything like that?