Results 141-160 of 1,954 for speaker:John Gilroy
- Seanad: Alcohol Pricing: Motion (16 Nov 2011)
John Gilroy: Moreover, his idea of introducing café bars certainly is worth exploring. However, matters will not change overnight but in incremental steps over a long journey. The step proposed in this motion constitutes the first step in that journey. If one approaches the issue by suggesting that minimum pricing alone will solve the problem, it will not. However, it will solve it as part of a...
- Seanad: Alcohol Pricing: Motion (16 Nov 2011)
John Gilroy: I could talk all day about this subject. There are obstacles in the path to the introduction of minimum pricing and I wonder whether it should be approached by way of taxation. If so, how would one differentiate between alcohol products, such as standard and premium beers for instance, and how would the taxation system capture that difference? If it is not intended to use taxation to...
- Seanad: Alcohol Pricing: Motion (16 Nov 2011)
John Gilroy: All of them?
- Seanad: Alcohol Pricing: Motion (16 Nov 2011)
John Gilroy: I am sorry about the confusion surrounding the closure of the debate.
- Seanad: Alcohol Pricing: Motion (16 Nov 2011)
John Gilroy: I am speaking in the absence of the proposer.
- Seanad: Alcohol Pricing: Motion (16 Nov 2011)
John Gilroy: I will allow Senator Colm Burke some time.
- Seanad: Alcohol Pricing: Motion (16 Nov 2011)
John Gilroy: He is summing up.
- Seanad: Alcohol Pricing: Motion (16 Nov 2011)
John Gilroy: He is acting as Leader to close the debate.
- Seanad: Order of Business (17 Nov 2011)
John Gilroy: Fianna Fáil ruined the country.
- Seanad: Order of Business (17 Nov 2011)
John Gilroy: The Minister has not done so.
- Seanad: Order of Business (17 Nov 2011)
John Gilroy: The faux indignation being expressed by the Fianna Fáil Party never fails to amaze me. It is funny at times. One might imagine that the past 14 years have not happened.
- Seanad: Order of Business (17 Nov 2011)
John Gilroy: It has been said that we are like the previous Government. There have been two television programmes about the crisis in the Cabinet of the former Taoiseach, Brian Cowen. We can imagine if that Government still existed what state the country would be in.
- Seanad: Order of Business (17 Nov 2011)
John Gilroy: I support the call for a debate on education. It is gravely worrying that no Irish university is in the world's top 100 institutions. We must explore this in an education debate. The idea that the Minister for Education and Skills, who is in the photograph which Senator O'Brien is enthusiastically waving around-----
- Seanad: Order of Business (17 Nov 2011)
John Gilroy: Has the Minister presented the budget to the Senator? Perhaps he has.
- Seanad: Order of Business (17 Nov 2011)
John Gilroy: The word "pathetic" was mentioned earlier but a better word might be "prophetic". Either Senator O'Brien is endowed with the gift of clairvoyance or the Minister has already spoken to him. It is one or the other.
- Seanad: Order of Business (17 Nov 2011)
John Gilroy: The suggestion is that we discuss the budget in advance of its announcement but parliamentary procedure is a bit faulty in that respect. I am calling for a debate on education and a discussion of the chronic under-investment in the past 14 years in third and fourth level institutions, which means not one is in the top 100 universities in the world.
- Seanad: Infrastructure and Capital Investment: Statements, Questions and Answers (22 Nov 2011)
John Gilroy: I welcome the Minister to the House. I also welcome the â¬3.9 billion of cuts in the capital programme given the circumstances we are in. It is necessary that spending be reduced by â¬12.4 billion over the next four years. As the Minister stated, hard political choices have to be made. This Government is and will continue to make those choices, not because it wants to but because it...
- Seanad: Infrastructure and Capital Investment: Statements, Questions and Answers (22 Nov 2011)
John Gilroy: I placed a moratorium on my criticising Fianna Fáil. However, I must admit I am sometimes guilty of breaching it. It is difficult to be lectured by Fianna Fáil Members whose party when in government made no provision for the capital programmes it announced and to have to now listen to them say this Government's proposals are shameful.
- Seanad: Infrastructure and Capital Investment: Statements, Questions and Answers (22 Nov 2011)
John Gilroy: Some years ago Fianna Fáil announced decentralisation, which was hailed as a stroke of genius. It now turns out to be a ball of smoke, hubris nonsense that must be confronted. Perhaps the Minister will confirm the Government's commitment to providing funding for a substantial number of regeneration projects in urban areas, in particular Limerick, Ballymun and substantial parts of the...
- Seanad: Infrastructure and Capital Investment: Statements, Questions and Answers (22 Nov 2011)
John Gilroy: Mental health is an area in which I have a particular interest as I have worked in the area for many years. I welcome the proposal to rebuild the Central Mental Hospital. I have one or two concerns in regard to the allocation of funding to A Vision for Change. Decisions made in other policy areas may well negate the best of intentions here. Do the Minister and his Department intend to...