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- Seanad: Budget 2013: Statements (5 Dec 2012)
John Gilroy: The Senator's party destroyed the economy.
- Seanad: Budget 2013: Statements (5 Dec 2012)
John Gilroy: Nonsense.
- Seanad: Budget 2013: Statements (5 Dec 2012)
John Gilroy: Inhuman, that is remarkable.
- Seanad: Budget 2013: Statements (5 Dec 2012)
John Gilroy: Who costed it?
- Seanad: Budget 2013: Statements (5 Dec 2012)
John Gilroy: What about the one Fianna Fáil agreed to?
- Seanad: Budget 2013: Statements (5 Dec 2012)
John Gilroy: Thanks to the policies of Fianna Fáil in government.
- Seanad: Order of Business. (5 Dec 2012)
John Gilroy: Any former Fianna Fáil Minister will do.
- Seanad: Order of Business. (5 Dec 2012)
John Gilroy: It is not over.
- Seanad: Order of Business. (5 Dec 2012)
John Gilroy: Is that the property tax agreed by Fianna Fáil?
- Seanad: Order of Business. (5 Dec 2012)
John Gilroy: I have noticed in recent days that some commentators in the House and a Deputy who was on radio this morning demonstrated a lack of understanding of the financial position. Despite their lack of understanding, it does not prevent them from making authoritative-sounding pronouncements. Some commentators suggest that if we do not pay the promissory notes next year there will be no need for a...
- Seanad: Order of Business. (5 Dec 2012)
John Gilroy: I appeal to the Chair. We cannot have that stand on the record of the House.
- Seanad: Order of Business. (5 Dec 2012)
John Gilroy: He did not say that.
- Seanad: Credit Union Bill 2012: Second Stage (4 Dec 2012)
John Gilroy: I welcome the Minister of State to the House. Senator D'Arcy has commented on the frequency of his visits to the House. This Bill is probably the most important Bill that has come before the House this year or at the very least it ranks high in importance. The credit union sector has proven to be the only part of the financial sector to come out well from our recent self-inflicted...
- Seanad: Credit Union Bill 2012: Second Stage (4 Dec 2012)
John Gilroy: Members of credit unions have a sense of ownership of the organisation. Senator D'Arcy referred to the corporate memory that has been lost in the banking system. Members of credit unions are well known to the risk management committees who make the lending decisions. This is commendable and is in stark contrast to the crowd of idiots who were running the other financial institutions. I...
- Seanad: Credit Union Bill 2012: Second Stage (4 Dec 2012)
John Gilroy: Other commentators hailed McCreevy as the best Minister for Finance in the history of the State and perhaps in the history of the world. I even recall someone calling for Mr. Sean FitzPatrick to be appointed chairman of the Central Bank, incredible as it seems. When these bankers were living it up, the managers of local credit unions were going about their business, quietly working away to...
- Seanad: Credit Union Bill 2012: Second Stage (4 Dec 2012)
John Gilroy: It is more productive here.
- Seanad: Credit Institutions (Eligible Liabilities Guarantee)(Amendment) Scheme 2012: Motion (29 Nov 2012)
John Gilroy: That is correct.
- Seanad: Credit Institutions (Eligible Liabilities Guarantee)(Amendment) Scheme 2012: Motion (29 Nov 2012)
John Gilroy: Hear, hear.
- Seanad: Credit Institutions (Eligible Liabilities Guarantee)(Amendment) Scheme 2012: Motion (29 Nov 2012)
John Gilroy: It was the only one.
- Seanad: Credit Institutions (Eligible Liabilities Guarantee)(Amendment) Scheme 2012: Motion (29 Nov 2012)
John Gilroy: I welcome the Minister of State to the Chamber for what I call the annual parade in front of the crocodilian Fianna Fáil Party, members of which will wave their handkerchiefs and shed salty tears.