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- Seanad: Order of Business (18 Sep 2013)
John Gilroy: That is a good point.
- Seanad: Services for People with Disabilities: Motion (25 Sep 2013)
John Gilroy: It is your touching sympathy for us that makes me smile.
- Seanad: Services for People with Disabilities: Motion (25 Sep 2013)
John Gilroy: I circulated it earlier.
- Seanad: Services for People with Disabilities: Motion (25 Sep 2013)
John Gilroy: I am glad that the Senator has an insight into the minds of his opponents.
- Seanad: Services for People with Disabilities: Motion (25 Sep 2013)
John Gilroy: I welcome the Minister of State to the Chamber and I add my voice to those wishing another Minister of State, Deputy Kathleen Lynch, my good friend and constituency colleague, a speedy recovery. She is doing an immense job and covers four different sectors in Departments, any one of which could easily carry a junior Ministry on its own. The work she is doing in the area is commendable. I...
- Seanad: Services for People with Disabilities: Motion (25 Sep 2013)
John Gilroy: I need protection right enough. It is important we have this conversation in advance of the budget and that is a benefit of today's motion. Nobody has a monopoly on concern in the area and there is no question that there have been cuts. Of course it is unsatisfactory that we have seen cuts, although I am afraid I supported cuts last year. On balance, although it was difficult, the savings...
- Seanad: Services for People with Disabilities: Motion (25 Sep 2013)
John Gilroy: Absolutely. I do not have any insight into the nature and extent of that unhappiness. I am unhappy and we must do some awful things when we are part of the Government. I could use my time lambasting Fianna Fáil for its mismanagement of the economy that has resulted in these cuts. I will not do so but we should agree it is an underlying reason.
- Seanad: Services for People with Disabilities: Motion (25 Sep 2013)
John Gilroy: So the Minister inherited a robust and booming economic process?
- Seanad: Services for People with Disabilities: Motion (25 Sep 2013)
John Gilroy: There is some revisionism there.
- Seanad: Services for People with Disabilities: Motion (25 Sep 2013)
John Gilroy: I am worse to rise to it. I will leave my contribution at that. I welcome the proposal, if not the tone of its introduction. It is a pity it is couched in such party political terms. Senator Power did her best to remove that tone, and that is a reflection of the nature in which the Seanad should be run. Senator O'Brien dragged the tone back to narrow party politics and blame but I should...
- Seanad: Services for People with Disabilities: Motion (25 Sep 2013)
John Gilroy: There will be lots of backtracking now.
- Seanad: Services for People with Disabilities: Motion (25 Sep 2013)
John Gilroy: Senator Daly will support it. The country is safe.
- Seanad: Order of Business (2 Oct 2013)
John Gilroy: Reference was made to statements made by my colleague, the Minister of State at the Department of Health, Deputy White. I want to put on record that regardless of whether we agree with what he said, he is probably the only person who has actually put up a proper argument in favour of abolishing the Seanad. He has published a very good paper on his website. We must disagree with it but at...
- Seanad: Upward Only Rent (Clauses and Reviews) Bill 2013: Second Stage (2 Oct 2013)
John Gilroy: Of course it is. That is fairly elementary.
- Seanad: Upward Only Rent (Clauses and Reviews) Bill 2013: Second Stage (2 Oct 2013)
John Gilroy: How can one bring in legislation that is not constitutional?
- Seanad: Upward Only Rent (Clauses and Reviews) Bill 2013: Second Stage (2 Oct 2013)
John Gilroy: An astonishing contribution.
- Seanad: Upward Only Rent (Clauses and Reviews) Bill 2013: Second Stage (2 Oct 2013)
John Gilroy: For someone with a legal background to make that argument is astonishing.
- Seanad: Upward Only Rent (Clauses and Reviews) Bill 2013: Second Stage (2 Oct 2013)
John Gilroy: The House must have regard to first principles. I was astonished to hear Senator Byrne and some of his colleagues say that we need not have regard to the Constitution while making law in the House.
- Seanad: Upward Only Rent (Clauses and Reviews) Bill 2013: Second Stage (2 Oct 2013)
John Gilroy: Senator Byrne certainly said it.
- Seanad: Upward Only Rent (Clauses and Reviews) Bill 2013: Second Stage (2 Oct 2013)
John Gilroy: We can decide what Senator Byrne said. He said that we do not need to have regard to the Constitution when making law.