Josepha Caroline Madigan is an Irish Fine Gael politician who has served as Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht since November 2017. She has been a Teachta Dála (TD) since 2016, currently for the Dublin Rathdown constituency. She previously served as Chair of the Committee on Budgetary Oversight from July 2017 to November 2017.
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Career
Solicitor
Madigan is a qualified solicitor, who practised family law for 20 years, prior to her election to Dáil Eireann. She is also certified as a mediator by the Mediators' Institute of Ireland and is a previous Council member of the MII. She is a former Specialist Liaison Officer for Family Mediation in the MII.
Author
Madigan is the author of the first book in Ireland on mediation: 'Appropriate Dispute Resolution in Ireland, a handbook for family lawyers and their clients (Jordan Publishing 2012). She has also self-published a novel called Negligent Behaviour.
Politics
Madigan was elected to Dáil Éireann at the 2016 general election, as a Teachta Dála (TD) for the Dublin Rathdown constituency. She was appointed Chair of the Committee on Budgetary Oversight in July 2017. She had been a member of Dún Laoghaire-Rathdown County Council from 2014 to 2016.
Madigan was three weeks a TD, when she was asked to participate in the 2016 government formation talks. She is an active member of the Public Accounts Committee. She has also brought forward a private member's bill to reduce the waiting time for divorce in Ireland from four years to two.
On 30 November 2017, she was appointed to the cabinet as Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht, in a reshuffle following the resignation of the Tánaiste Frances Fitzgerald. Madigan is only the 19th woman to be appointed as a senior Minister in the history of the State.
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References
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