Results 1-10 of 10 for destroyed speaker:Joanna Tuffy

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Humanitarian Assistance for Household Flooding: Discussion (13 Jan 2016)

Joanna Tuffy: ...the situation with regard to farmers? I made enquires on behalf of someone whose land - as opposed to the family home - has been affected by flooding. If fuel, for example, on a person's land is destroyed, can he or she receive funding towards new fuel in order to keep his or her home heated? Is there flexibility there? If someone is a farmer and the house and farm are close together...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: General Scheme of Retention of Records Bill 2015: Discussion (15 Apr 2015)

Joanna Tuffy: My understanding of the law as it stands is that all these records will be destroyed.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: General Scheme of Retention of Records Bill 2015: Discussion (15 Apr 2015)

Joanna Tuffy: The main point is that something has to be done or the records will be destroyed. That is a point that could be clarified. An article in Timemagazine states a baby born today could live to be 140. I do not know whether that is true but life expectancy is increasing all the time. What protections would exist for somebody still alive?

An Bille um an Dara Leasú is Tríocha ar an mBunreacht (Deireadh a Chur le Seanad Éireann) 2013: An Dara Céim (Atógáil) - Thirty-second Amendment of the Constitution (Abolition of Seanad Éireann) Bill 2013: Second Stage (Resumed) (19 Jun 2013)

Joanna Tuffy: ...appear to have any grasp of the purpose of the Seanad in our democracy and has been very flippant about it. I have the impression he is very caught up in a presidential style of leadership which is destroying our Parliament in terms of its accountability. The media laps this up to the detriment of all the other Members of this House and of the Seanad. The Taoiseach does not even grasp...

Legal Services Regulation Bill 2011: Second Stage (Resumed) (9 Feb 2012)

Joanna Tuffy: ...Competition is not the be all and end all. The Minister might not be aware of it, but there was cut-price conveyancing in my area of west Dublin during the Celtic tiger housing boom. It probably destroyed some solicitors. I never made money in the short time that I practised as a self-employed solicitor. I was always at a loss and the cost of insurance was crippling. This is another...

Child Benefit: Motion (1 Dec 2009)

Joanna Tuffy: ...concerning universality. The countries that introduced such universal provisions did so just after the Second World War in financially straitened times. In Britain, where so much housing had been destroyed, they introduced a national health service based on the principle of universality. That is the direction in which we should be heading, rather than using our economic recession as an...

Requests to move Adjournment of Dáil under Standing Order 32 (24 Nov 2009)

Joanna Tuffy: ...to deal with the consequences of the flooding experienced in a number of parts of the country during the past week, the assistance that will be provided to those whose homes or businesses have been destroyed, if it is intended to apply for moneys from the EU Solidarity Fund in order to assist with meeting the cost of the crisis and the steps that are being taken to establish the causes of...

Flood Relief. (25 Jun 2009)

Joanna Tuffy: .... A number of bridges were swept away and road surfaces, business premises, houses and a local church were damaged. The local library was housed in an old church and a number of book stocks were destroyed. There is a picture in the Irish Independent of the damage to the library, which shows that a great deal of damage was done to books. A lot of public property was damaged, according to...

Seanad: Criminal Justice (Terrorist Offences) Bill 2002: Second Stage. (26 Jan 2005)

Joanna Tuffy: ...the intention of seriously intimidating a population and unduly compelling a government or an international organisation to perform or abstain from performing an act, or seriously destabilising or destroying the fundamental political, constitutional, economic or social structures of a state or an international organisation. This definition is far-reaching. I do not believe it is the...

Seanad: Commissions of Investigation Bill 2003: Committee Stage. (6 Jul 2004)

Joanna Tuffy: ...about legal or any other privilege, is entitled to be appointed to a commission. The Labour Party is concerned that the production to a commission of a privileged document could have the effect of destroying the privilege of the commission and contaminating the minds of its members. The example of the High Court which requires documents to be submitted is apt. This is a different scenario...