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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Accreditation for the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland Facility in Bahrain: Discussion (Resumed) (2 Apr 2014)

Joanna Tuffy: Dr. Halpin said education makes one free. How would the NUI try to address human rights issues in education?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Accreditation for the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland Facility in Bahrain: Discussion (27 Nov 2013)

Joanna Tuffy: We will write to the Minister for Education and Skills, the Medical Council and invite the Medical Council to attend in the New Year. Did Dr. Ó Cuinn also suggest that we write to the NUI? Does the NUI not come under the remit of the Minister?

Topical Issue Debate: Student Training Allowances (29 Nov 2012)

Joanna Tuffy: ...in hospitals. Payment of this allowance was stopped three years ago on the grounds of HSE cutbacks. However, although biomedical science is offered at three third level colleges - namely, DIT, NUI Galway and Cork University - and students of those courses had all previously received the allowance, it was stopped only for the DIT students. Students at the other two colleges still receive...

Written Answers — Teacher Education: Teacher Education (3 Jun 2010)

Joanna Tuffy: Question 16: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Education and Skills the reasons it has been decided to move the Froebel College of Education from Blackrock, County Dublin to NUI Maynooth, County Kildare in September 2013; the location at which the new purpose-built Froebel centre for early childhood and primary education will be on the university campus; if additional staff, both...

Order of Business (21 Jan 2010)

Joanna Tuffy: The Tánaiste mentioned the issue of Seanad reform after I had indicated that I wanted to ask a question. I would like to know how the proposed abolition of the NUI would affect the status of the sitting NUI Senators.

Climate Change: Statements (Resumed) (2 Dec 2009)

Joanna Tuffy: ...a good deal of research which indicates that our climate is already changing. There has been significant studies on how climate change will impact on Ireland. Much of it has been carried out by NUI Maynooth and people such as Professor John Sweeney. Some of the impacts of climate change in Ireland will not be that bad. Some areas will do better than others, but many areas of activity...

Radon Gas. (27 Nov 2008)

Joanna Tuffy: ...Party was in favour of that scheme when in opposition. The RPII is in favour because it states that only 10% of people who have high levels of radon take up the remediation measures afterwards. NUI has found that this is because of the cost of installing those barriers. Will the Minister consider implementing the Labour Party scheme now that he is in government?

Student Support Bill 2008: Second Stage (Resumed) (13 Mar 2008)

Joanna Tuffy: ...experienced by community groups. A great deal of work is done in my constituency by women's groups in particular which promote third level study. Very often they work in conjunction with NUI Maynooth and UCD. Women's studies and community studies are popular and they are good in themselves but much more can be done in terms of grant provision to encourage those women, and men also, to...