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- Committee on Education and Social Protection: Select Sub-Committee on Education and Skills: Estimates for Public Services 2014
Vote 26 - Education and Skills (Supplementary) (10 Dec 2014) Joanna Tuffy: Is there not?
- Committee on Education and Social Protection: Select Sub-Committee on Education and Skills: Estimates for Public Services 2014
Vote 26 - Education and Skills (Supplementary) (10 Dec 2014) Joanna Tuffy: It is similar to the first item we got. Do members have any questions?
- Committee on Education and Social Protection: Select Sub-Committee on Education and Skills: Estimates for Public Services 2014
Vote 26 - Education and Skills (Supplementary) (10 Dec 2014) Joanna Tuffy: We move on to subhead A.8, which is on superannuation of teaching and non-teaching staff. It is on page 6 of the Department's brief and page 7 of the committee secretariat's brief.
- Committee on Education and Social Protection: Select Sub-Committee on Education and Skills: Estimates for Public Services 2014
Vote 26 - Education and Skills (Supplementary) (10 Dec 2014) Joanna Tuffy: Subhead B.7 is on superannuation and is the same issue again.
- Committee on Education and Social Protection: Select Sub-Committee on Education and Skills: Estimates for Public Services 2014
Vote 26 - Education and Skills (Supplementary) (10 Dec 2014) Joanna Tuffy: Technically, we must go through it. It is superannuation for former members of SOLAS, FÁS and AnCo and it is on page 7 of the Department's brief and page 8 of the committee secretariat's briefing for members. The next item is subhead C.10, which is superannuation for former staff of universities and institutes of technology. It is on page 9 of the secretariat briefing and page 9 of...
- Committee on Education and Social Protection: Select Sub-Committee on Education and Skills: Estimates for Public Services 2014
Vote 26 - Education and Skills (Supplementary) (10 Dec 2014) Joanna Tuffy: There are no questions. Subhead C.11 is on student support and it is on page 10 of the Department's brief and page 10 of the committee's brief. Can the Minister provide us with a briefing on the subhead?
- Committee on Education and Social Protection: Select Sub-Committee on Education and Skills: Estimates for Public Services 2014
Vote 26 - Education and Skills (Supplementary) (10 Dec 2014) Joanna Tuffy: Therefore, it does not involve an extra aspect.
- Committee on Education and Social Protection: Select Sub-Committee on Education and Skills: Estimates for Public Services 2014
Vote 26 - Education and Skills (Supplementary) (10 Dec 2014) Joanna Tuffy: It was a question of moving funds around.
- Committee on Education and Social Protection: Select Sub-Committee on Education and Skills: Estimates for Public Services 2014
Vote 26 - Education and Skills (Supplementary) (10 Dec 2014) Joanna Tuffy: Do members have any questions on that issue or the broader issue?
- Committee on Education and Social Protection: Select Sub-Committee on Education and Skills: Estimates for Public Services 2014
Vote 26 - Education and Skills (Supplementary) (10 Dec 2014) Joanna Tuffy: There are still issues and I dealt with one myself. While SUSI has greatly improved, I found it very hard to get it to take certain things on board. In a way, the applicant has faced a brick wall. It was only persistence that got SUSI to look at it again. Some applicants have an estranged parent, which can be a difficulty and there are still issues around it. The committee did a great...
- Committee on Education and Social Protection: Select Sub-Committee on Education and Skills: Estimates for Public Services 2014
Vote 26 - Education and Skills (Supplementary) (10 Dec 2014) Joanna Tuffy: Has this created opportunities for new teachers in the system? Has the number of available posts been estimated, or are extra jobs available? The original allocation for salaries was for 11,060 staff, an increase of 335 on 2013. What are the staff numbers now, given the extra retirements?
- Committee on Education and Social Protection: Select Sub-Committee on Education and Skills: Estimates for Public Services 2014
Vote 26 - Education and Skills (Supplementary) (10 Dec 2014) Joanna Tuffy: This is an important issue, because we cannot stop retirees from seeking work. Some people have a bigger problem with this issue than I do. At the same time, retirements should open opportunities for those new to the profession and allow them the chance of a proper, permanent and secure job. Does the Department check how posts are filled? I think there is an issue around the transparency...
- Committee on Education and Social Protection: Select Sub-Committee on Education and Skills: Estimates for Public Services 2014
Vote 26 - Education and Skills (Supplementary) (10 Dec 2014) Joanna Tuffy: Do members have more questions on this subhead? We will move on to subhead 6, which deals with the salaries of special needs assistants, SNAs. That is on page 6 of the Department's brief and page 6 of the committee secretariat's brief.
- Committee on Education and Social Protection: Select Sub-Committee on Education and Skills: Estimates for Public Services 2014
Vote 26 - Education and Skills (Supplementary) (10 Dec 2014) Joanna Tuffy: We are discussing the Supplementary Estimates for Vote 26 - Education and Skills, for an amount of €103 million. Under Standing Order 161 the discussion must be confined to the items contained in the Supplementary Estimate and no discussion may be raised on the original Estimates, save in so far as it may be necessary to explain or illustrate the particular items under discussion....
- Committee on Education and Social Protection: Select Sub-Committee on Education and Skills: Estimates for Public Services 2014
Vote 26 - Education and Skills (Supplementary) (10 Dec 2014) Joanna Tuffy: We will now go through the Supplementary Estimates, during which debate members can also raise the junior cycle reform issue. The first subhead is A3 - salaries, wages and allowances for primary school teachers. I refer members to page 3 of the Department's brief and page 3 of the committee secretariat briefing.
- Committee on Education and Social Protection: Select Sub-Committee on Education and Skills: Estimates for Public Services 2014
Vote 26 - Education and Skills (Supplementary) (10 Dec 2014) Joanna Tuffy: Have similar errors arisen in previous years? Why was this not foreseen by the Department such that the Comptroller and Auditor General did not have to pick up on it?
- Committee on Education and Social Protection: Select Sub-Committee on Education and Skills: Estimates for Public Services 2014
Vote 26 - Education and Skills (Supplementary) (10 Dec 2014) Joanna Tuffy: We will now move on to subhead A5 - grants to ETBs in respect of teachers' salaries. I refer members to page 5 of the Department brief and page 4 of the committee secretariat briefing.
- Water Services Bill 2014: Second Stage (Resumed) (4 Dec 2014)
Joanna Tuffy: The next speaker is Deputy Catherine Murphy. I understand the Deputy is sharing her time with Deputy Fleming.
- Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Reliefs Abolition (4 Dec 2014)
Joanna Tuffy: 68. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will provide an update on all tax reliefs on income tax either eliminated or being phased out from budget 2012 onwards; the estimated savings to date for each; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46580/14]
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Online Learning at University: Discussion (3 Dec 2014)
Joanna Tuffy: Did Senator Moran wish to comment?