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- Seanad: Order of Business (27 Sep 2012)
John Gilroy: It does not do anything to inspire confidence in our fragile recovery and perhaps he should show a bit of political maturity and responsibility.
- Seanad: Health Service Executive (Governance) Bill 2012: Second Stage (Resumed) (26 Sep 2012)
John Gilroy: Perhaps Senator O'Brien can drop into the Minister's clinic on Saturday.
- Seanad: Health Service Executive (Governance) Bill 2012: Second Stage (26 Sep 2012)
John Gilroy: What does that have to do with the legislation before us?
- Seanad: Health Service Executive (Governance) Bill 2012: Second Stage (26 Sep 2012)
John Gilroy: I am.
- Seanad: Health Service Executive (Governance) Bill 2012: Second Stage (26 Sep 2012)
John Gilroy: It is as unlikely as you being one.
- Seanad: Health Service Executive (Governance) Bill 2012: Second Stage (26 Sep 2012)
John Gilroy: That is one term shorter than the time it took for the Senator's party to destroy the country.
- Seanad: Health Service Executive (Governance) Bill 2012: Second Stage (26 Sep 2012)
John Gilroy: Fianna Fáil led us to ruin.
- Seanad: Health Service Executive (Governance) Bill 2012: Second Stage (26 Sep 2012)
John Gilroy: The Senator's party members resisted that strategy.
- Seanad: Health Service Executive (Governance) Bill 2012: Second Stage (26 Sep 2012)
John Gilroy: The Senator's party members opposed it.
- Seanad: Health Service Executive (Governance) Bill 2012: Second Stage (26 Sep 2012)
John Gilroy: Members of his party resigned over it.
- Seanad: Health Service Executive (Governance) Bill 2012: Second Stage (26 Sep 2012)
John Gilroy: -----suffice it to say that following eight years during which the delivery of health services was at best inconsistent and lacking integration, we cannot expect an instant panacea. The reorganisation of the health service in line with the programme for Government, with the ultimate aim of providing universal health insurance, as outlined by the Labour Party as early as 2006, and perhaps a...
- Seanad: Health Service Executive (Governance) Bill 2012: Second Stage (26 Sep 2012)
John Gilroy: I welcome this important legislation. No one could argue it is overdue. It offers hope that at last, and without prevarication, the Government is trying to get to grips with something often charitably described as a monolith. The Minister promised he would take this step and it demonstrates the determination of the Minister and the Government to have a working health service at last. Many...
- Seanad: Health (Pricing and Supply of Medical Goods) Bill 2012: Second Stage (19 Jul 2012)
John Gilroy: I welcome the Minister to the House. At the outset of Senator Burke's contribution, he made reference to the Private Members' Bill on access to cancer treatment which came before the House recently. I would also like to make reference to it because it was a good example of how we can find policy in one area is not only inconsistent with policy in another but contradictory to it. It behoves...
- Seanad: Health (Pricing and Supply of Medical Goods) Bill 2012: Second Stage (19 Jul 2012)
John Gilroy: I understand but my examples give an impression.
- Seanad: Health (Pricing and Supply of Medical Goods) Bill 2012: Second Stage (19 Jul 2012)
John Gilroy: The Minister is correct. I have outlined some of the issues that the Bill proposes to address. It also requires that the HSE takes prices in member states and a range of other factors into account and that may generate some interest when we try to tease out the matter. I shall give one more example of a well known pharmacy chain that operates here that sells a box of paracetamol under a...
- Seanad: Health (Pricing and Supply of Medical Goods) Bill 2012: Second Stage (19 Jul 2012)
John Gilroy: We can never go too far wrong blaming Fianna Fáil.
- Seanad: Order of Business (19 Jul 2012)
John Gilroy: I welcome our honeymoon friends, Liz and Casey, to the Chamber. Their presence set me thinking that the next time I want to sweep Mrs. Gilroy off her feet I might whisk her up here to the Visitors' Gallery so she can hear the romantic tones that often emanate from the Chamber. I support Senator Eamonn Coghlan's call for an invitation to be extended to the Irish Olympians to come to the House...
- Seanad: Order of Business (19 Jul 2012)
John Gilroy: He was a man who never made decisions. He was the man who destroyed the health service.
- Seanad: Order of Business (19 Jul 2012)
John Gilroy: On a point of order, please. While I do not wish to tell the Cathaoirleach how to do his job, Senator Leyden's outrageous behaviour, in naming people and attributing the awful tragedy of this death to the Government is absolutely ---
- Seanad: Order of Business (19 Jul 2012)
John Gilroy: It is outrageous. He should retract his comments immediately.