Results 1,841-1,860 of 1,954 for speaker:John Gilroy
- Seanad: Order of Business (28 Apr 2015)
John Gilroy: The reduced VAT rate has been a great success. No commentator would think differently. When we said we would remove 400,000 people from the universal social charge, which Fianna Fáil introduced in 2010 and it kicked in at €4,000, they said it could not be done.
- Seanad: Order of Business (28 Apr 2015)
John Gilroy: By the end of the year 500,000 people will be removed from USC. Senator O’Brien is calling for a debate on the economic recovery, which has been driven by the people, and would like to have one or both Ministers in the Chamber to discuss it. I am fully in favour of that and endorse his views on it. I recognise that it is not possible to do it today but as soon as possible. We will...
- Seanad: Order of Business (28 Apr 2015)
John Gilroy: Well done.
- Seanad: Order of Business (28 Apr 2015)
John Gilroy: What is the Senator doing in Sinn Féin?
- Seanad: Order of Business (28 Apr 2015)
John Gilroy: There are plenty of extra gardaí in Templemore.
- Seanad: Order of Business (29 Apr 2015)
John Gilroy: That is right.
- Seanad: Mental Health Services: Statements (29 Apr 2015)
John Gilroy: I welcome the Minister of State to the Chamber. I am glad to see her here again. No one in this Chamber or outside would ever doubt her commitment to reform of the mental health services. I will take a look at the historical or legacy obstacles that face us to put in context some of the challenges with which we are faced in the mental health services, both child and adolescent services and...
- Seanad: Mental Health Services: Statements (29 Apr 2015)
John Gilroy: There are 12 at present but my information is that not all these are functional.
- Seanad: Mental Health Services: Statements (29 Apr 2015)
John Gilroy: In 1984, there was another momentous development. In 1984, the report, Planning for the Future, was published. Planning for the Future proposed a pathway through which we would close the large institutions and move psychiatry and mental health into the community. That was followed by a series of seven-year plans, which worked and built upon the policy framework set out in Planning for the...
- Seanad: Spring Economic Statement: Statements (6 May 2015)
John Gilroy: That is not true.
- Seanad: Spring Economic Statement: Statements (6 May 2015)
John Gilroy: Senator Ó Domhnaill erroneously suggested that 95% of all jobs created were in the Dublin region. The Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation put the true figure on the record when he addressed the House last week. He also reminded us that if one takes a narrow snapshot of statistics, one can find any result one wishes. However, the standardised techniques through which the CSO...
- Seanad: Spring Economic Statement: Statements (6 May 2015)
John Gilroy: The Labour Party was not in government.
- Seanad: Spring Economic Statement: Statements (6 May 2015)
John Gilroy: The people who were in government-----
- Seanad: Spring Economic Statement: Statements (6 May 2015)
John Gilroy: If members of a Government turn around and say that they were not governing and blame the Opposition for the policies that it implemented, I do not think that it is a good Government at all.
- Seanad: Spring Economic Statement: Statements (6 May 2015)
John Gilroy: The Senator's party was in government.
- Seanad: Spring Economic Statement: Statements (6 May 2015)
John Gilroy: It was Senator Ó Domhnaill's party that made the decisions; it boomed it.
- Seanad: Spring Economic Statement: Statements (6 May 2015)
John Gilroy: It was the former leader of the Senator's party who coined the phrase and called it "boomier". The boom was going to get boomier. Having spoken for a moment on our previous Government's role in fiscal irresponsibility, we should now talk about fiscal responsibility, which is what the economic statement is about. Jobs are the only show in town if we are to allow people feel the real...
- Seanad: Order of Business (7 May 2015)
John Gilroy: Did the late Margaret Thatcher do it?
- Seanad: Alcohol Consumption in Ireland: Statements (12 May 2015)
John Gilroy: I welcome the Minister. When I turned on the television a week or so ago to flick through what was on, I came across an incredibly named programme called "Drunk History" on one of the British cable channels. The format of the programme involved some comedians, or so-called comedians, discussing history while drunk. I do not know who thought comedians discussing history could be...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Update on Health Issues: Department of Health and Health Service Executive (14 May 2015)
John Gilroy: I have a single question for the Minister. At a time of unprecedented public concern about suicide rates, the Reach Out national suicide prevention strategy seems to have expired. In March 2014, this committee was told that a new policy framework would be in place by November 2014. We are now into the fifth month of 2015 which makes the framework strategy seven months late. Could the...