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- Seanad: Order of Business (24 Jun 2014)
John Gilroy: I have been a consistent critic of our mental health services in a low key manner over recent years. I am highly conscious of the fact that it is not in anybody's interests to be shouting or scoring political points on this. However, there is a serious problem in the mental health services, and we can cite the situation Senator Bacik raised. Senator Darragh O'Brien talks constantly about...
- Seanad: Order of Business (24 Jun 2014)
John Gilroy: Their souls are the most important thing.
- Seanad: Public Health (Standardised Packaging of Tobacco) Bill 2014: Committee and Remaining Stages (24 Jun 2014)
John Gilroy: I have listened carefully to what has been said and agree wholeheartedly with the point Senator Crown is making. I wonder, however, whether the provisions in section 7, particularly subsections (1)(f) and (11), make the amendment unnecessary. They seem to me to cover the exact point Senator Crown is making.
- Seanad: Public Health (Standardised Packaging of Tobacco) Bill 2014: Committee and Remaining Stages (24 Jun 2014)
John Gilroy: Section 7(1)(f) refers to inserted items.
- Seanad: Public Health (Standardised Packaging of Tobacco) Bill 2014: Committee and Remaining Stages (24 Jun 2014)
John Gilroy: It is a question of bringing subsection (11) on to it as well.
- Seanad: Public Health (Standardised Packaging of Tobacco) Bill 2014: Committee and Remaining Stages (24 Jun 2014)
John Gilroy: Senators Burke and MacSharry have neatly summed up what I wanted to say. I congratulate the Minister on taking another step in the journey to making Ireland tobacco free. It is a good move. This is comprehensive and robust legislation and will stand up to any challenge it may face in the future. I wish him well in his further steps on this journey towards making Ireland tobacco free.
- Seanad: Health Insurance (Reform) Bill 2014: Second Stage (25 Jun 2014)
John Gilroy: I welcome the Minister, Deputy James Reilly, to the House and thank Senator Feargal Quinn for bringing forward these proposals. Although I do not propose to support the legislation, it affords us a welcome opportunity to discuss issues relating to the health insurance market The explanatory memorandum refers to the significant decline in recent years in the numbers availing of private...
- Seanad: Order of Business (26 Jun 2014)
John Gilroy: It is with some regret that I find myself in agreement with what Senator Darragh O'Brien said about the mental health services in this country. I worked as a psychiatric nurse for 28 years, up to 2011, and what I hear from former - and future - colleagues makes for very dispiriting listening. I refer to the report Senator O'Brien mentioned by the Mental Health Commission and the Inspector...
- Seanad: Order of Business (26 Jun 2014)
John Gilroy: All of them perhaps.
- 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.
- Seanad: Order of Business (1 Jul 2014)
John Gilroy: Is it the names of Francis Quinn, Hugh Mullan, Joan Connolly, Daniel Taggart, Noel Phillips, Joseph Murphy, Edward Doherty, John Laverty, Paddy-----
- Seanad: Order of Business (1 Jul 2014)
John Gilroy: Which of them? With which names does Senator Mark Daly want to play games?
- Seanad: Order of Business (1 Jul 2014)
John Gilroy: Senator Mark Daly reduced the deaths of people to a mere counting game. It is absolutely disgraceful and shameful.
- Seanad: Order of Business (1 Jul 2014)
John Gilroy: Sinn Féin moved from it years ago.
- Seanad: Order of Business (1 Jul 2014)
John Gilroy: I have plenty of questions for her. Sinn Féin moved from it years ago and reached out a hand to its former opponents and enemies. That is not something Senator Mark Daly has even moved towards. It is despicable nationalism; it is despicable republicanism, the republicanism of no decent minded person. I have raised mental health issues time and again. Many find section 59 of the...
- 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: 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 (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: 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: 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...