Richard Bruton (Dublin North Central, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

If one is entering into a voluntary process, one does not introduce powers to compel. They are in conflict in that one is attempting to bring the two sides together voluntarily to agree. The Senator is seeking to give compulsion powers. It would drive people away from mediation because they would fear that if they went into it, they would suddenly be compelled to do this, that and the other and it would defeat the purpose of trying to use mediation as a better and more agreeable alternative to ultimate adjudication. I cannot accept the amendment.