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- Seanad: Water Services Bill 2014: Committee Stage (Resumed) (22 Dec 2014)
John Gilroy: This is the sort of argument we are having - that the finances of the ESB are dodgy. Are there people who are putting that on the record of the House?
- Seanad: Water Services Bill 2014: Committee Stage (Resumed) (22 Dec 2014)
John Gilroy: Are we saying that the CER is not capable of fulfilling its role? Are we expressing such lack of confidence in our own colleagues to be able to interrogate the finances of Irish Water under the Committee of Public Accounts and the joint Oireachtas committee?
- Seanad: Water Services Bill 2014: Committee Stage (Resumed) (22 Dec 2014)
John Gilroy: Do we not have confidence in the ability of the Houses of the Oireachtas to raise appropriate questions?
- Seanad: Water Services Bill 2014: Committee Stage (Resumed) (22 Dec 2014)
John Gilroy: This is fabulous stuff, Senator O'Brien.
- Seanad: Water Services Bill 2014: Committee Stage (Resumed) (22 Dec 2014)
John Gilroy: I have read it. I spent at least 130 hours working on this legislation.
- Seanad: Water Services Bill 2014: Committee Stage (Resumed) (22 Dec 2014)
John Gilroy: It is an unfortunate, if completely unintentional, habit of mine.
- Seanad: Water Services Bill 2014: Committee Stage (Resumed) (22 Dec 2014)
John Gilroy: One of the Leas-Chathaoirleach's party colleagues accused me of waffling, which was amazing. We listened to some dreadful tosh last Friday when Senators stuck their heads in holes in the ground, although when I listen to some of the contributions made by Opposition Senators, I sometimes feel like sticking my head into a hole in the ground.
- Seanad: Water Services Bill 2014: Committee Stage (Resumed) (22 Dec 2014)
John Gilroy: I thank the Leas-Chathaoirleach for his guidance. If the Joint Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht, Committee of Public Accounts, Commission for Energy Regulation and the State's entire auditing mechanisms are not to be trusted, and both Houses of the Oireachtas are incapable of interrogating the finances of a semi-State body, there is something seriously wrong.
- Seanad: Water Services Bill 2014: Committee Stage (Resumed) (22 Dec 2014)
John Gilroy: This farce is called democracy.
- Seanad: Water Services Bill 2014: Committee Stage (Resumed) (22 Dec 2014)
John Gilroy: That is what it is called - democracy.
- Seanad: Water Services Bill 2014: Committee Stage (Resumed) (22 Dec 2014)
John Gilroy: It is never about doing the right thing; it is all about being elected.
- Seanad: Water Services Bill 2014: Committee Stage (Resumed) (22 Dec 2014)
John Gilroy: Hear, hear.
- Seanad: Water Services Bill 2014: Committee Stage (Resumed) (22 Dec 2014)
John Gilroy: That happened on 15 January 2014.
- Seanad: Order of Business (20 Jan 2015)
John Gilroy: It is not a surprise.
- Seanad: Order of Business (20 Jan 2015)
John Gilroy: Republicans.
- Seanad: Order of Business (20 Jan 2015)
John Gilroy: Implemented €800 million worth of cuts.
- Seanad: Order of Business (20 Jan 2015)
John Gilroy: I wish to speak about the proposed increase in registration fees for nurses and midwives. This is an 80% increase over two years from €88 two years ago to a proposed €150 this year. If the costs rose as a result of legislative changes there might be a case to be made, although I think the case would be a very poor one. There is a growing and deepening suspicion that a figure...
- Seanad: Order of Business (20 Jan 2015)
John Gilroy: It is exercising freedom of speech.
- Seanad: HSE National Service Plan 2015: Statements (20 Jan 2015)
John Gilroy: Senator MacSharry has the sum of all human knowledge.
- Seanad: HSE National Service Plan 2015: Statements (20 Jan 2015)
John Gilroy: It is sufficient for us listening to you.