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- 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?
- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Development and Reform of the Budget Process: Irish Human Rights and Equality Commission (12 Jul 2017)
Josepha Madigan: It could serve as a model for other Departments, which was a question I was going to ask.
- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Development and Reform of the Budget Process: Irish Human Rights and Equality Commission (12 Jul 2017)
Josepha Madigan: For the information of the committee, the director of the parliamentary budget office has been appointed. Ms Annette Connolly has been appointed to the position and a press release was issued this morning. It is a positive development. I hope to meet her briefly tomorrow and the committee will meet her at the earliest opportunity. Mr. Bond is correct in how important it is for that office...
- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Development and Reform of the Budget Process: Irish Human Rights and Equality Commission (12 Jul 2017)
Josepha Madigan: I am unsure whether that is in your remit, but it is a valid question. Obviously, I have my own views on the FEMPI legislation. Deputy Hart, I am conscious that you have not said anything.
- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Development and Reform of the Budget Process: Irish Human Rights and Equality Commission (12 Jul 2017)
Josepha Madigan: My next question is for any of our witnesses. Do you intend to do a post-budget review in terms of equality matters? It would help this committee in terms of the budget for 2019.
- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Development and Reform of the Budget Process: Irish Human Rights and Equality Commission (12 Jul 2017)
Josepha Madigan: I appreciate that. I think it would be helpful for us to see what targets were met in the commission's perspective in respect of looking at budget 2019. That is my view anyway.
- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Development and Reform of the Budget Process: Irish Human Rights and Equality Commission (12 Jul 2017)
Josepha Madigan: Are there any further questions?
- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Development and Reform of the Budget Process: Irish Human Rights and Equality Commission (12 Jul 2017)
Josepha Madigan: I appreciate that, Mr. Bond, and thank you for coming in. Thank you, Ms Logan and Dr. Murphy, on behalf of the committee.
- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Equality Budgeting: Discussion with the National Women's Council of Ireland (12 Jul 2017)
Josepha Madigan: I welcome Ms Niamh Allen, head of development, and Ms Camille Loftus, social policy researcher and analyst, National Women's Council of Ireland. They both will talk about equality budgeting. Before we begin, I remind members and witnesses to turn off their mobile phones. The interference from mobile phones affects the sound quality and transmission of the meeting. Witnesses are...
- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Equality Budgeting: Discussion with the National Women's Council of Ireland (12 Jul 2017)
Josepha Madigan: We do, yes. She was appointed as director today, actually.
- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Equality Budgeting: Discussion with the National Women's Council of Ireland (12 Jul 2017)
Josepha Madigan: That office will be up and running soon.
- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Equality Budgeting: Discussion with the National Women's Council of Ireland (12 Jul 2017)
Josepha Madigan: I will let Deputy Boyd Barrett in shortly as he has to go at 3.30 p.m. Are we at a critical juncture at this point? Why is that the case now? I asked the commission, whose representatives were before the committee earlier, the same question. Is the National Women's Council going to conduct its own review of the budget in the context of its own ambitions?
- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Equality Budgeting: Discussion with the National Women's Council of Ireland (12 Jul 2017)
Josepha Madigan: Did the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform write to the committees or to other Departments?
- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Equality Budgeting: Discussion with the National Women's Council of Ireland (12 Jul 2017)
Josepha Madigan: That is positive.
- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Equality Budgeting: Discussion with the National Women's Council of Ireland (12 Jul 2017)
Josepha Madigan: The Deputy is suggesting a review of what is contained in the budget.
- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Equality Budgeting: Discussion with the National Women's Council of Ireland (12 Jul 2017)
Josepha Madigan: Ms Allen and Ms Loftus mentioned Austria in some detail. Are they aware of any other jurisdiction in which there has been this budget process? If so, that might be useful information for us to know.
- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Equality Budgeting: Discussion with the National Women's Council of Ireland (12 Jul 2017)
Josepha Madigan: I am sorry; I did not mean to steal Deputy Seán Barrett's question.