Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Wednesday, 6 March 2019
Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality
Reform of Family Law System: Discussion (Resumed)
Jim O'Callaghan (Dublin Bay South, Fianna Fail)
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I wish to ask Dr. O'Shea about her presentation. Everyone would agree that we should try to resolve family disputes at the earliest possible stage. There are two parts to my query. First, sometimes in family law environments there is alleged or actual domestic abuse. Under the Mediation Act 2017, certain types of cases are precluded from mediation because of that.