Results 281-300 of 1,954 for speaker:John Gilroy
- Seanad: Fiscal Responsibility (Statement) Bill 2011: Second Stage (14 Dec 2011)
John Gilroy: Kevin Cardiff would be annoyed with you.
- Seanad: Fiscal Responsibility (Statement) Bill 2011: Second Stage (14 Dec 2011)
John Gilroy: Hear, hear.
- Seanad: Fiscal Responsibility (Statement) Bill 2011: Second Stage (14 Dec 2011)
John Gilroy: All of the time.
- Seanad: Social Welfare Bill 2011: Committee Stage (Resumed) and Remaining Stages (15 Dec 2011)
John Gilroy: Politicians do not wantââ
- Seanad: Social Welfare Bill 2011: Committee Stage (Resumed) and Remaining Stages (15 Dec 2011)
John Gilroy: We would be better off hearing more reasoned debate from the likes of Senators van Turnhout and Darragh O'Brien than the petty party political points scoring we have heard. It would be better for the House and everybody involved. All parties in this House and the other agree that the deficit in public finances must be closed and most parties are in agreement on the broad parameters of that...
- Seanad: Social Welfare Bill 2011: Committee Stage (Resumed) and Remaining Stages (15 Dec 2011)
John Gilroy: Anywhere the hand falls within this programme will be seen as unpalatable and sometimes unfair. The Opposition may argue these measures are unfair but we see them as unpalatable. We regret them and hate implementing those measures because they are terrible. They are necessary, none the less, and the Opposition would act similarly in our position. There is no point in being pious. I do not...
- Seanad: Social Welfare Bill 2011: Committee Stage (Resumed) and Remaining Stages (15 Dec 2011)
John Gilroy: The Order of Business was agreed to this morning. Question put.
- Seanad: Order of Business (11 Jan 2012)
John Gilroy: I wish the Cathaoirleach and everybody else a happy new year. Senator Marie Moloney's contribution in support of the Vita Cortex workers in Cork was very welcome and I add my voice to it. However, I draw the attention of the House to the plight of the Cork-based Bowen construction workers. Some 92 workers have been left without any final payments or redundancy payments because NAMA refused...
- Seanad: Suicide Prevention: Statements (12 Jan 2012)
John Gilroy: I welcome the Minister of State, the group from Clondalkin and Deputy Derek Keating, who is doing tremendous work in this area. As Senators, every day we hear about people dying by suicide - it is sometimes one person but it is sometimes several people. It is very easy to feel helpless in the face of that but it is important that, as policymakers, we do not allow ourselves to be...
- Seanad: Order of Business (25 Jan 2012)
John Gilroy: My good friend, Senator Mac Conghail, was despondent about the fact that we are paying the bondholders of Anglo Irish Bank. I share his despondency and I do not think there is a person in Ireland who is not outraged that the country has come to the situation whereby we have to pay bondholders. Unfortunately, however, in other elements of the debate a deep dishonesty is being put forward....
- Seanad: Water Services (Amendment) Bill 2011 [Seanad Bill amended by the Dáil]: Report and Final Stages (1 Feb 2012)
John Gilroy: Should it not be a crime?
- Seanad: Water Services (Amendment) Bill 2011 [Seanad Bill amended by the Dáil]: Report and Final Stages (1 Feb 2012)
John Gilroy: Should we have legislation without any sanction?
- Seanad: Water Services (Amendment) Bill 2011 [Seanad Bill amended by the Dáil]: Report and Final Stages (1 Feb 2012)
John Gilroy: They are up in arms because you are scaremongering.
- Seanad: Water Services (Amendment) Bill 2011 [Seanad Bill amended by the Dáil]: Report and Final Stages (1 Feb 2012)
John Gilroy: This is the single most dishonest debate I have ever heard.
- Seanad: Water Services (Amendment) Bill 2011 [Seanad Bill amended by the Dáil]: Report and Final Stages (1 Feb 2012)
John Gilroy: Sinn Féin has taken a reasonably responsible position on this, but Fianna Fáil is using it to reconnect with a voter base in rural areas that it has betrayed and whose trust it has lost.
- Seanad: Water Services (Amendment) Bill 2011 [Seanad Bill amended by the Dáil]: Report and Final Stages (1 Feb 2012)
John Gilroy: That is the motivation of Fianna Fáil. There is no fear low enough for Fianna Fáil to exploit. It brings no credit on this House for Fianna Fáil Members to stand up and not even understand the nature of legislation. We expect more from people.
- Seanad: Water Services (Amendment) Bill 2011 [Seanad Bill amended by the Dáil]: Report and Final Stages (1 Feb 2012)
John Gilroy: We expect more from Senator Byrne, who is a legal person by trade. Imagine living in a world where one can breach legislation without penalty, which is what Fianna Fáil have suggested.
- Seanad: Water Services (Amendment) Bill 2011 [Seanad Bill amended by the Dáil]: Report and Final Stages (1 Feb 2012)
John Gilroy: We expect more from Senators.
- Seanad: Water Services (Amendment) Bill 2011 [Seanad Bill amended by the Dáil]: Report and Final Stages (1 Feb 2012)
John Gilroy: It brings discredit on this House to score such blatant party points, play on the fears of ordinary decent people living in rural Ireland and then claim to have a monopoly of wisdom. It is dishonest and disgraceful. It is shameful to come into the House and undermine the reasonable level of debate we normally have here. They should be ashamed of themselves.
- Seanad: Water Services (Amendment) Bill 2011 [Seanad Bill amended by the Dáil]: Report and Final Stages (1 Feb 2012)
John Gilroy: Senator Daly is absolutely wrong. What about development charges, which practically everyone in urban Ireland pays?