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Seanad: Order of Business (15 Oct 2014)

John Gilroy: When the Senator from Kerry-----

Seanad: Order of Business (15 Oct 2014)

John Gilroy: If I am over time, it can hardly be blamed on me.

Seanad: Order of Business (15 Oct 2014)

John Gilroy: Senator Daly has used two minutes of my time.

Seanad: Order of Business (15 Oct 2014)

John Gilroy: May I finish with one last comment?

Seanad: Order of Business (15 Oct 2014)

John Gilroy: I can. If the acting leader of the Fianna Fáil group draws his literary references from the front page of the IrishDaily Mail, it surely explains all the-----

Seanad: Order of Business (15 Oct 2014)

John Gilroy: The Senator's concern is touching.

Seanad: Budget 2015: Statements (14 Oct 2014)

John Gilroy: Do it in the North first.

Seanad: Budget 2015: Statements (14 Oct 2014)

John Gilroy: I am glad to have an opportunity to contribute to this important debate. We will have plenty of opportunity in the next couple of days and weeks to flesh out the meaning of this budget. With that in mind, I want to speak in general terms about what we are trying to achieve here. We have had seven budgets in six years which could be described as austerity budgets. This is the first one that...

Seanad: Budget 2015: Statements (14 Oct 2014)

John Gilroy: What is it in Northern Ireland? It is £67.

Seanad: Order of Business (Resumed) (2 Oct 2014)

John Gilroy: Section 836 of the Taxes Consolidation Act 1997 provides for a Minister to be exempt from certain charges relating to the necessity of maintaining a second home in the course of his or her duties. I commend the Minister for Finance, Deputy Noonan, on indicating that he will move quickly to close this obscure loophole. Yesterday in the other House Deputy Pearse Doherty of Sinn Féin...

Seanad: Order of Business (Resumed) (2 Oct 2014)

John Gilroy: How do you know?

Seanad: Fluoridation of Water: Motion (1 Oct 2014)

John Gilroy: I will welcome one Minister of State and bid the other farewell in the same breath. I have some sympathy for the motion, although I am not convinced that fluoride-free water is a fundamental right. The motion overstates the case. Senator Colm Burke referred to the Supreme Court ruling of Mr. Justice John Kenny that it is not a fundamental right. While people generally should be free to...

Seanad: Order of Business (1 Oct 2014)

John Gilroy: At lunchtime today, the staff at St. Stephen's hospital in Glanmire, which is part of north Cork mental health services, will be staging a one hour protest at the inability or unwillingness of the HSE to fill 15 vacant posts. These posts are over and above the recent announcement of new posts, at a time when services nationally are struggling due to the lack of resources and staff, and are...

Seanad: Medical Practitioners (Amendment) Bill 2014: Second Stage (Resumed) (24 Sep 2014)

John Gilroy: Rightly so, thanks be to God.

Seanad: Medical Practitioners (Amendment) Bill 2014: Second Stage (Resumed) (24 Sep 2014)

John Gilroy: I welcome the Minister and wish him well in his new job. The magnitude of the responsibilities involved and the frustrations to which the job gives rise turned his predecessors grey, not just in terms of their hair but also, perhaps, in the context of their reputations. I have every confidence that this will not happen to the Minister. He has begun his tenure very well and some of his...

Seanad: Order of Business (23 Sep 2014)

John Gilroy: Senator Darragh O'Brien provided a very fair analysis with regard to the current crisis relating to speech and language services and made a reasonable request in the context of how we might deal with the matter. I do not believe it was the Senator's intention to have the Minister come before the House today to discuss the issue but rather that this would happen at the earliest possible date,...

Seanad: Freedom of Information Bill 2013: Second Stage (18 Sep 2014)

John Gilroy: Interesting.

Seanad: Order of Business (18 Sep 2014)

John Gilroy: At the outset, I wish to say that I am a supporter of the JobBridge internship scheme and I will continue to support it. International evidence and experience shows that internship schemes play a very important role in supporting labour forces. The experience in Ireland has shown that 63% of people who take part in JobBridge schemes enter the workforce at the end of it, not necessarily in...

Seanad: Order of Business (17 Sep 2014)

John Gilroy: Is it in County Kerry?

Seanad: Order of Business (17 Sep 2014)

John Gilroy: Recently, we heard reports that some contractors working on the schools building programme are employing sub-contractors who are paid substantially less than industry-wide agreed rates. This morning there was a protest at the gates of Leinster House and many colleagues will have met members of the trade union involved. This is not a recent phenomenon and has been ongoing for a considerable...