Results 741-760 of 7,283 for speaker:Josepha Madigan
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (29 Mar 2017)
Josepha Madigan: I am not disagreeing with the request to have the Secretary General in here, but it is premature in terms of the information that it would have about value for money or not.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (29 Mar 2017)
Josepha Madigan: We need to know the facts. They will say that they need to check. They do not know the full information at this stage.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (29 Mar 2017)
Josepha Madigan: I am not disagreeing with the principle of it.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (29 Mar 2017)
Josepha Madigan: It also needs an opportunity to get all the information in advance of coming in. Deputies Daly, Ó Caoláin and O'Brien will do a very good job of questioning the Commissioner. Opening up another stream on the issue will not benefit anyone and certainly not us because they will not be able to answer.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (29 Mar 2017)
Josepha Madigan: Certainly not at the moment.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (29 Mar 2017)
Josepha Madigan: I do not like the way we are being directed by media.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (29 Mar 2017)
Josepha Madigan: Deputy Cullinane is being a bit sensitive about the first two points I made. I do not disagree with the principle of what he said on the Secretary General of the Department of Justice and Equality. All I said was that it was premature because the Department does not have the facts. Secondly, and in this regard I am entitled to make my opinion known to the committee, it is not personal in...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (29 Mar 2017)
Josepha Madigan: It was directed towards me.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (29 Mar 2017)
Josepha Madigan: If the Deputy is referring to Project Eagle, we are entitled to make our opinions known. It is unnecessary to be------
- Questions on Promised Legislation (30 Mar 2017)
Josepha Madigan: As far back as 2007, the then Council of Europe Commissioner for Human Rights, Mr. Thomas Hammarberg, said some of the delays in the criminal justice system could possibly be in breach of the European Convention on Human Rights. In that context, we have the Criminal Procedure Bill. I fail to understand why this is not priority legislation. It provides for pre-trial preliminary hearings and...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (30 Mar 2017)
Josepha Madigan: This was mentioned yesterday as well. I am not disagreeing with bringing in officials. My concern is that it is premature at this stage. We need to allow time for the full facts to be gleaned because we do not have them at this stage. There is no point in bringing in officials when we will not get the answers that we desire. We should wait a little longer. That is my view.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (30 Mar 2017)
Josepha Madigan: Exactly.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (30 Mar 2017)
Josepha Madigan: It will merely waste the committee's time.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (30 Mar 2017)
Josepha Madigan: Yes. Then we would have to go back and ask for more information. It would be a waste of everybody's time.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (30 Mar 2017)
Josepha Madigan: I am certainly not suggesting that. Deputy Kelly was on the radio this morning asking for the Commissioner to come before the Committee of Public Accounts.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (30 Mar 2017)
Josepha Madigan: I was taken aback when the Chairman revealed in the Dáil last night what the Minister, Deputy Noonan, had said to him because the Chairman told us that he had a meeting with the Minister or that he had bumped into him in the canteen but he did not tell us what the Minister said. I am not trying to bring the Chairman's character into disrepute but I thought it was opportunistic to say it...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (30 Mar 2017)
Josepha Madigan: Not procedurally appropriate.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (30 Mar 2017)
Josepha Madigan: The words were not acceptable to us, Deputy Connolly.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (30 Mar 2017)
Josepha Madigan: We are entitled to our opinion.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (30 Mar 2017)
Josepha Madigan: It is the other way around.