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- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: HIQA Investigation into Midland Regional Hospital, Portlaoise (Resumed): Parents and Patient Advocates (19 May 2015)
John Gilroy: I welcome Ollie and Amy, and Róisín and Mark. They have my deepest and profound sympathy. I also welcome Sheila O'Connor and Cathriona Molloy from Patient Focus. It is terribly important that they are here today because while the HIQA report makes for powerful reading, the testimony we have heard gives an insight that nothing else could achieve. I salute them for that. Ms...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: HIQA Investigation into Midland Regional Hospital, Portlaoise (Resumed): Parents and Patient Advocates (19 May 2015)
John Gilroy: I am a psychiatric staff nurse myself and have worked in the service for 30 years. I noticed that when advocacy was brought in, in parallel with the new Mental Health Act, the culture changed overnight at all staff levels. It was remarkable how the culture changed overnight when there was outside scrutiny. Mrs. Róisín Molloy alleges that case notes were changed. I do not want...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: HIQA Investigation into Midland Regional Hospital, Portlaoise (Resumed): Health Service Executive (19 May 2015)
John Gilroy: Mr. O'Brien started his contribution today by acknowledging the convention that contributions are circulated in advance, but he deviated from the convention. Why did he not circulate his response to us?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: HIQA Investigation into Midland Regional Hospital, Portlaoise (Resumed): Health Service Executive (19 May 2015)
John Gilroy: I understand that but I was just curious about it. That leads me to my second point. At this morning's session we heard powerful and moving contributions from the families. The one message that I heard very clearly concerned the difficulty in obtaining information. I am very frustrated by what I am hearing this afternoon because in my view, Mr. O'Brien's contribution bears very little...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: HIQA Investigation into Midland Regional Hospital, Portlaoise (Resumed): Health Service Executive (19 May 2015)
John Gilroy: Mr. O'Brien seemed to be suggesting in his contribution that his concerns relating to the HIQA report were primarily due to the absence of reference to individuals. I ask him to elaborate on that point.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: HIQA Investigation into Midland Regional Hospital, Portlaoise (Resumed): Health Service Executive (19 May 2015)
John Gilroy: He did say that. Finally, when there was talk about legal obligations and judicial reviews, did Mr. O'Brien have any regard to how the families might have felt on hearing such public pronouncements at a time when one of the most emotive topics was being discussed widely in the media? My final point relates to cutting budgets in the areas of training and advocacy. I would have thought...
- Seanad: Order of Business (11 Jun 2015)
John Gilroy: The unintelligible noise coming from the Opposition benches is that of Senator Mark Daly jumping on every passing bandwagon that has come through the House since Christmas. If he had taken the time to attend a debate in the House yesterday when the Minister was present he could have put his one-upmanship to him.
- Seanad: Order of Business (11 Jun 2015)
John Gilroy: I agree.
- Seanad: Order of Business (11 Jun 2015)
John Gilroy: The Minister was here yesterday.
- Seanad: Order of Business (11 Jun 2015)
John Gilroy: The Minister would have answered Senator Daly if he had the courage to come in for the debate.
- Seanad: Order of Business (11 Jun 2015)
John Gilroy: If the Senator had the courage to come in to the House yesterday and put his concerns to the Minister-----
- Seanad: Order of Business (11 Jun 2015)
John Gilroy: I will not refer to Senator Daly at all. The Senator from Kerry also referred to the work of the Department of Foreign Affairs committee in respect of an Irish citizen. All Irish citizens are treated in the same way in the Republic-----
- Seanad: Order of Business (11 Jun 2015)
John Gilroy: -----irrespective of the Senator's innuendo that the Government would dare to treat somebody of a different ethnicity differently in a Republic, which he suggested it did.
- Seanad: Order of Business (11 Jun 2015)
John Gilroy: The Senator also jumped on the bandwagon by raising the mental health services in Roscommon. It is blatantly transparent and he even admitted to the fact that he wishes to score political points as opposed to having a genuine concern for the service users of the mental health service in Roscommon.
- Seanad: Order of Business (11 Jun 2015)
John Gilroy: A Chathaoirleach, may I make my contribution without interruption, please?
- Seanad: Order of Business (11 Jun 2015)
John Gilroy: I have.
- Seanad: Order of Business (11 Jun 2015)
John Gilroy: I have several. I could not allow the bandwagon effect to pass without comment. On an unrelated matter, there are some anomalies in the price structuring fare of public transport in Ireland. A comparison of bus fares in Cork and similar bus fares in Dublin shows a price differential. I ask the acting Leading to facilitate a debate with the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport on...
- Seanad: Health (General Practitioner Service) Bill 2015: Second Stage (11 Jun 2015)
John Gilroy: That is a very poor argument.
- Seanad: Health (General Practitioner Service) Bill 2015: Second Stage (11 Jun 2015)
John Gilroy: Other children have been born in the meantime to replace those growing older.
- Seanad: Health (General Practitioner Service) Bill 2015: Second Stage (11 Jun 2015)
John Gilroy: That is also a poor argument.