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- Seanad: Order of Business (31 Mar 2015)
John Gilroy: The Senator should check his facts.
- Seanad: Order of Business (31 Mar 2015)
John Gilroy: Let us have that debate.
- Seanad: Order of Business (31 Mar 2015)
John Gilroy: The Fianna Fáil Party's view, as outlined by Senator Byrne of Irish history is rather charming in its simplicity. We would all love to live in the simple black and white world that Fianna Fáil portray Irish history to be.
- Seanad: Order of Business (31 Mar 2015)
John Gilroy: It fails to acknowledge the complexity of the positions, the motivation and the actions that lead to the formation of this State. Lest there by anyone in any doubt about how Fianna Fáil rewrites history in a self serving type of way, we note that the only thing Fianna Fáil can say about the Rising today is to focus on a negative thing on the day the Government announced the...
- Seanad: Order of Business (31 Mar 2015)
John Gilroy: The day that something really good and positive happens, the Fianna Fáil Party focuses on the negative.
- Seanad: Order of Business (31 Mar 2015)
John Gilroy: : Let us recall this is the party of men who stood in the General Post Office in 1916
- Seanad: Order of Business (31 Mar 2015)
John Gilroy: The men who stood in the General Post Office in 1916, de Valera and Lemass who were the founders of the party that brought this country to ruin 100 years after they had made a stand in the GPO.
- Seanad: Order of Business (31 Mar 2015)
John Gilroy: What would they be thinking today?
- Seanad: Order of Business (31 Mar 2015)
John Gilroy: I support Senator Byrne's view that there should be an early debate to tease out different positions.
- Seanad: Order of Business (31 Mar 2015)
John Gilroy: That is the worst insult the Senator could give me-----
- Seanad: Order of Business (31 Mar 2015)
John Gilroy: -----that I was a member of Fianna Fáil.
- Seanad: Order of Business (21 Apr 2015)
John Gilroy: Senator Rónán Mullen is making a mountain out of a molehill. The photograph in question is a single photograph and the Garda Commissioner has expressed an opinion on it already; to try to generate further publicity out of it is disingenuous. While we welcome Senator Thomas Byrne's contribution and his welcome for Deputy Willie Penrose's Bill, which we hope will come on to the...
- Seanad: Order of Business (21 Apr 2015)
John Gilroy: While he purports to portray his comments as support for the Bill it is nakedly obvious that it only cynical positioning ahead of the next election.
- Seanad: Order of Business (21 Apr 2015)
John Gilroy: Perhaps we could have a debate on our insolvency mechanisms and enable Deputy Penrose's Bill to have a smoother transition through both Houses?
- Seanad: Order of Business (23 Apr 2015)
John Gilroy: Tomorrow, 24 April, marks the 99th anniversary of the Easter Rising and it is appropriate that this House should acknowledge that fact. Saturday, 25 April, marks the commemoration of ANZAC day, which saw 3,000 Irish men and boys dying on the shores of Gallipoli. Those 3,000 people are as Irish as the heroes of the 1916 Rising. The complexity of our history is illustrated nicely, or...
- Seanad: Order of Business (28 Apr 2015)
John Gilroy: We must salute and commend Senator Darragh O’Brien in his attempts to find something negative to say today. It really is a remarkable achievement to be able to find a way to criticise the hard work and sacrifice of the people that enabled the economy to turn around.
- Seanad: Order of Business (28 Apr 2015)
John Gilroy: Is Senator O'Brien now saying that it was not the people who made the sacrifice?
- Seanad: Order of Business (28 Apr 2015)
John Gilroy: If it was not the people whom Fianna Fáil is prepared to say made the sacrifice-----
- Seanad: Order of Business (28 Apr 2015)
John Gilroy: -----perhaps it was the negativity that Fianna Fáil and Sinn Féin poured out for the past four years that has turned the country around. On every occasion when the Government announced a target, Senator O’Brien criticised it and said it was unachievable. He said it was announced that we would create the conditions to-----
- Seanad: Order of Business (28 Apr 2015)
John Gilroy: When it was announced in 2012 that we would create the conditions to create 90,000 jobs, Senator O’Brien and his party were the first out of the traps saying it cannot be done. In that time 100,000 jobs have been created. When it was announced that we were reducing the VAT rate to 9% to stimulate employment and activity in the tourism sector, Senator O’Brien, Fianna Fáil...