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Seanad: National Treasury Management Agency (Amendment) Bill 2014: Committee and Remaining Stages (17 Jul 2014)

John Gilroy: Is any limit on the ministerial guarantee envisaged? The last guarantee we exercised did not turn out for the very best.

Seanad: National Treasury Management Agency (Amendment) Bill 2014: Committee and Remaining Stages (17 Jul 2014)

John Gilroy: Is there no monetary value to the limit on the guarantee?

Seanad: Order of Business (17 Jul 2014)

John Gilroy: I support my colleague, Senator Cáit Keane, who highlighted the practice of tabling unrealistic motions and demanding Ministers come to the House at the drop of a hat that are designed more for show than for effect. We have all received numerous representations from a wide range of groups which have had their funding cut in the last while. We all agree that this funding should not have...

Seanad: Strategic Banking Corporation of Ireland Bill 2014: Second Stage (15 Jul 2014)

John Gilroy: I welcome the Minister to the Chamber and welcome this Bill which will be a central plank in providing SMEs with access to funding. Senator D'Arcy said that one criticism of the Bill is that it is only now coming before us. It is a pity we did not have it a year or two ago, but the fact we had no money is probably the answer to that criticism. It is worth reminding ourselves that 70% of...

Seanad: Health (General Practitioner Service) Bill 2014: Committee Stage (9 Jul 2014)

John Gilroy: We are discussing amendments Nos. 1 to 7, inclusive.

Seanad: Health (General Practitioner Service) Bill 2014: Committee Stage (9 Jul 2014)

John Gilroy: I will speak to amendments Nos. 9 and 10 in a moment but first I will not allow some of Senator Crown's comments to go unchallenged. He suggested the Health Service Executive has most to lose from a reorganisation. It seems to be some sort of tautology or, at minimum, a circular argument. In the 30 years I worked with the health services, I have never been accused of being a defender of...

Seanad: Health (General Practitioner Service) Bill 2014: Committee Stage (9 Jul 2014)

John Gilroy: That is just not true.

Seanad: Health (General Practitioner Service) Bill 2014: Committee Stage (9 Jul 2014)

John Gilroy: We do not know that.

Seanad: Health (General Practitioner Service) Bill 2014: Committee Stage (9 Jul 2014)

John Gilroy: No, we are not. It is amendments Nos. 1 to 7.

Seanad: Health (General Practitioner Service) Bill 2014: Committee Stage (9 Jul 2014)

John Gilroy: Senator Crown gives a good description of the services provided by the GPs and there is not a single person on this or any side of the House who does not agree with virtually everything he says on this. I would be inclined to go a little further and say that the services offered by GPs are pivotal because they are the gatekeepers of the services. Senator Colm Burke referred to a meeting of...

Seanad: Health Service Executive (Financial Matters) Bill 2013: Second Stage (3 Jul 2014)

John Gilroy: By the sounds of it, the Senator has not even got onto the Bill.

Seanad: Health Service Executive (Financial Matters) Bill 2013: Second Stage (3 Jul 2014)

John Gilroy: Before I make my substantive contribution, I take the opportunity to correct the record, as Senator MacSharry would surely do if he had the opportunity to speak again. He said that overruns in the health budget are only a recent phenomenon.

Seanad: Health Service Executive (Financial Matters) Bill 2013: Second Stage (3 Jul 2014)

John Gilroy: Indeed the Senator did. The record should read that in the past 17 years, there were 14 years with overruns. This year's overrun of €158 million, as quoted by Senator MacSharry, represents 0.0166% of the budget. In a demand-led system, that is not the disaster it has been portrayed to be by my good friend, Senator MacSharry. The Bill is highly technical and gives expression to the...

Seanad: Order of Business (3 Jul 2014)

John Gilroy: My good friend Senator Brian Ó Domhnaill and many others in Fianna Fáil have during the past year raised the issue of subsidising renewable energy producers during times when they are not producing energy. The words "disgraceful behaviour" have been used by my colleagues in Fianna Fáil in this respect. I ask the Deputy Leader to arrange a debate on renewable energy and public...

Seanad: Suicide Prevention and Mental Health Fund Bill 2014: Second Stage (2 Jul 2014)

John Gilroy: Senator MacSharry’s Bill is very welcome in so far as it gives us the opportunity to discuss this important issue. We will not be supporting the Bill for several reasons, however. In doing so, I do not want to be seen as being at odds with Senator MacSharry. I commend him on his good and useful report on suicide for his party. Section 2 provides for the Minister to make regulations...

Seanad: Suicide Prevention and Mental Health Fund Bill 2014: Second Stage (2 Jul 2014)

John Gilroy: That is not what we are talking about today. Senator Leyden is making a mockery of Senator MacSharry's Bill.

Seanad: Health (General Practitioner Service) Bill 2014: Second Stage (2 Jul 2014)

John Gilroy: I welcome the Minister to the Chamber. I welcome the Bill as the legislative basis for a new universal GP service. I point out that €37 million has been provided in the 2014 budget to fund this initiative, which is a funding provision over and above that which already exists within the system. To say the funding is being diverted from existing services is not just factually...

Seanad: Health Identifiers Bill 2013: [Seanad Bill amended by the Dáil] Report and Final Stages (2 Jul 2014)

John Gilroy: I seek clarification on the matter. I read the report and listened to a radio interview about the matter. The information is statistical, anonymised and is covered, I presume, by the same guidelines that govern the release of information by the CSO and other Government bodies. Is that correct?

Seanad: Health Identifiers Bill 2013: [Seanad Bill amended by the Dáil] Report and Final Stages (2 Jul 2014)

John Gilroy: I welcome the Minister to the Chamber and am glad that we have got our work done in such a short time. I am also glad that we have accepted these amendments from the Lower House. The Minister might recall that, following our debate on the Bill, I spoke to him about the question of specified persons under the Data Protection Act. That matter is now covered under section 4 where it relates...

Seanad: Order of Business (1 Jul 2014)

John Gilroy: When Senator Mark Daly reduces the deaths of people in the Northern Ireland conflict to a mere counting game, it is something of which he should be absolutely ashamed. If that his type of republicanism, not mine. It is the type of republicanism in which no decent minded person would ever indulge, but that is not the issue I wish to raise. I refer to mental health issues.