Results 1,021-1,040 of 7,283 for speaker:Josepha Madigan
- Mediation Bill 2017: Report Stage (11 Jul 2017)
Josepha Madigan: I move amendment No. 22:In page 10, between lines 34 and 35, to insert the following:"(a) minimum training required to be appointed mediator;". The amendment relates specifically to the need for mediators to have minimum training, which is an issue Deputy Wallace also raised. I am pleased the legislation is before the House in the first instance and I do not intend to press the amendment. I...
- Mediation Bill 2017: Report Stage (11 Jul 2017)
Josepha Madigan: I move amendment No. 26:In page 14, between lines 9 and 10, to insert the following:"(9) In order to ensure quality control and ongoing professional development, mediators should be registered with the Council.". To ensure quality control and ongoing professional development, mediators should be registered with the Mediation Council of Ireland. The Minister referred to minimum training. The...
- Mediation Bill 2017: Report Stage (11 Jul 2017)
Josepha Madigan: I move amendment No. 27:In page 14, line 28, to delete "advise the client to consider mediation" and substitute "discuss the possibility of engaging in mediation". Discussions with clients about mediation arose when we discussed judicial separation and divorce in the context of family law in sections 5 to 7, inclusive. The use of the term "advise" in this context goes against the voluntary...
- Mediation Bill 2017: Report Stage (11 Jul 2017)
Josepha Madigan: I will not press the amendment but, with respect, I do not agree with the Minister.
- Mediation Bill 2017: Report Stage (11 Jul 2017)
Josepha Madigan: We will have to differ, but I will not press the amendment.
- Mediation Bill 2017: Report Stage (11 Jul 2017)
Josepha Madigan: Constructive disagreement. I do not agree with the Minister at all.
- Mediation Bill 2017: Report Stage (11 Jul 2017)
Josepha Madigan: Reluctantly.
- Written Answers — Department of Finance: Property Tax Assessments (11 Jul 2017)
Josepha Madigan: 134. To ask the Minister for Finance his plans to extend the freeze of local property tax valuations past 2019; his plans to implement further recommendations of the Thornhill report; and the way he plans to mitigate the effects of rapidly rising house prices in places such as Dublin Rathdown. [32363/17]
- Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Courts Service Administration (12 Jul 2017)
Josepha Madigan: 90. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the steps he is taking to shorten delays in family courts (details supplied); and if he will provide statistics regarding the delays being experienced in each of the courts and the next available hearing dates for same. [32689/17]
- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Business of Select Committee (12 Jul 2017)
Josepha Madigan: I have received apologies from Deputy Pat Deering. Before I begin, I welcome all the members to this meeting of the Committee on Budgetary Oversight. I am delighted to be selected as chairwoman or chairperson, and I look forward to working with all of the members. As members will be aware, this committee was established in 2016 to consider national issues affecting public expenditure...
- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Business of Select Committee (12 Jul 2017)
Josepha Madigan: I thank Deputy Calleary.
- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Business of Select Committee (12 Jul 2017)
Josepha Madigan: I inquired of the clerk to the committee and I understand that I was entitled to take the Chair.
- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Business of Select Committee (12 Jul 2017)
Josepha Madigan: I appreciate that.
- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Business of Select Committee (12 Jul 2017)
Josepha Madigan: That is fine. As Deputy Calleary will be aware, I have been a member of the Committee of Public Accounts for the past year. It is quite an adversarial committee. I have read the transcripts over the past number of months. This committee is somewhat more salutary.
- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Business of Select Committee (12 Jul 2017)
Josepha Madigan: I hope to continue in that vein. I thank Deputy Calleary for his good wishes.
- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Business of Select Committee (12 Jul 2017)
Josepha Madigan: I appreciate that. I thank Deputy Brophy.
- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Business of Select Committee (12 Jul 2017)
Josepha Madigan: I thank Deputy Lahart. I propose now to move to the business of the committee and to deal with a number of housekeeping issues. We will then resume in public session and meet the Irish Human Rights and Equality Commission and the National Women's Council of Ireland. Is that agreed? Agreed.
- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Development and Reform of the Budget Process: Irish Human Rights and Equality Commission (12 Jul 2017)
Josepha Madigan: I welcome Ms Emily Logan, Chief Commissioner, Mr. Laurence Bond, director, and Dr. Mary Murphy, commission member, from the Irish Human Rights and Equality Commission. The witnesses will be looking at development and reform of the budget process. Before we begin, I remind members and witnesses to turn off their mobile phones. The interference from mobile phones affects the sound quality...
- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Development and Reform of the Budget Process: Irish Human Rights and Equality Commission (12 Jul 2017)
Josepha Madigan: I thank Ms Logan for her opening statement. Would Dr. Murphy or Mr. Bond like to add anything?
- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Development and Reform of the Budget Process: Irish Human Rights and Equality Commission (12 Jul 2017)
Josepha Madigan: Ms Logan mentioned that there were workshops with the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform and that there were positive outcomes from them. What specifically was positive from them, and has there been follow-up with those workshops?