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- Seanad: Environment (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2014: Report and Final Stages (21 Jul 2015)
John Gilroy: We can only respond to what we hear from the Opposition.
- Seanad: Environment (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2014: Report and Final Stages (21 Jul 2015)
John Gilroy: On the amendment, the Opposition has thrown in the kitchen sink. Opposition Senators have called the introduction of the grant madness, a shambles and a farce. It has been described as everything except what it is. Senator David Cullinane said little, apart from shouting the word "joke", which might describe his own party's policies on the economy and water services. Sinn Féin has a...
- Seanad: Environment (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2014: Report and Final Stages (21 Jul 2015)
John Gilroy: It is used by An Post to deliver letters.
- Seanad: Environment (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2014: Report and Final Stages (21 Jul 2015)
John Gilroy: I do not know what you can say to that.
- Seanad: Order of Business (23 Sep 2015)
John Gilroy: I agree with Senator D'Arcy.
- Seanad: Order of Business (23 Sep 2015)
John Gilroy: Hear, hear.
- Seanad: Order of Business (23 Sep 2015)
John Gilroy: I wish my good friend and colleague, Jimmy Harte, all the best on his retirement. It is a sad day for Leinster House when we lose somebody of the calibre of Jimmy. Jimmy is a gentleman and one of the most decent people I have met. His contribution to Seanad Éireann has been exemplary, as was his dedication to public service. Jimmy seldom stood up without first thinking how his...
- Seanad: Order of Business (24 Sep 2015)
John Gilroy: Yesterday and again this morning we heard much comment about the loss of the Web Summit to Lisbon. While the reasons for it are probably varied and complex, the cost of accommodation here----
- Seanad: Order of Business (24 Sep 2015)
John Gilroy: While the cost of accommodation here in the city is certainly a factor, I want to draw attention to what might be another factor in this decision. Back in 2013 for the entire period of the Web Summit, there was a water shortage here in Dublin. When there were 30,000 international and national entrepreneurs and high-tech businesses coming here to experience the Irish ambiance for...
- Seanad: Order of Business (29 Sep 2015)
John Gilroy: The immediately previous exchange demonstrates why we cannot have a mature debate.
- Seanad: Order of Business (29 Sep 2015)
John Gilroy: Yes but I want to build a background to my question. The exchange demonstrates why we cannot have a mature debate on these very important issues. People start roaring, shouting and throwing personal abuse at people just because they oppose the position that people take.
- Seanad: Order of Business (29 Sep 2015)
John Gilroy: A torrent of abuse was directed at my colleague because of a position that they do not share. Personal abuse is never appropriate. If that is the level of argument that this House is able to generate then I do not think it is worth engaging at all.
- Seanad: Order of Business (29 Sep 2015)
John Gilroy: I welcome the Cabinet's expenditure programme that was outlined today which gives money to the badly-needed upgrade of the Dunkettle interchange in Cork. The measure will remove the last set of traffic lights from Cork to Belfast when completed which is a good thing and can only be welcomed. The location is a real bottleneck and holds up the full development of the city and port of Cork....
- Seanad: Pre-Budget Outlook: Statements (30 Sep 2015)
John Gilroy: There would be no tax cuts for a generation if that happened.
- Seanad: Longer Healthy Living Bill 2015: Second Stage (30 Sep 2015)
John Gilroy: I welcome the Minister to the Chamber. We are not opposing the Bill, the intention of which is decent and sound and worth much consideration.We can speak only about the Bill before us. The Bill, as presented, requires additional work before it can be fully supported, and I look forward to discussing it on Committee Stage. The Minister might think about and redress some of my concerns....
- Seanad: Horizon 2020: Statements (8 Oct 2015)
John Gilroy: I welcome the Minister of State. I would like to comment on a statement made by my friend and colleague, Senator White, who referred to a letter written by 1,200 scientists - dated March 2011 - about two weeks after we formed the Government. Senator White seems to attempt to lay the blame for a failed Fianna Fáil policy on two weeks of the current Government's handling of the issue. I...
- Seanad: Horizon 2020: Statements (8 Oct 2015)
John Gilroy: Absolutely. Cork is a perfect example. I was just going to come to it. The centres of employment in County Cork - Ringaskiddy, Little Island, Cork Airport Business Park - are magnets for inward investment. It is often too easy to think of inward investment as just being money. It is also skill, expertise, innovation, enterprise and everything. The energy that foreign direct investment...
- Seanad: Budget 2016: Statements (13 Oct 2015)
John Gilroy: The Senator should provide some facts. He has spoken only of the NAMA element and omitted to mention 90% of Government investment in housing.
- Seanad: Budget 2016: Statements (13 Oct 2015)
John Gilroy: That sounds a little racist to me.
- Seanad: Budget 2016: Statements (13 Oct 2015)
John Gilroy: I was beginning to wonder whether I was still in the Seanad Chamber or had suddenly found myself at the Kilkenomics comedy festival or something. The argument from Fianna Fáil, particularly from Senator MacSharry, to whom I have been listening for five years, seems to be that when Fianna Fáil was in government the Opposition decried calls for increased public spending and now that...