Results 481-500 of 1,954 for speaker:John Gilroy
- Seanad: Order of Business (1 Jul 2014)
John Gilroy: Is it the names of Francis Quinn, Hugh Mullan, Joan Connolly, Daniel Taggart, Noel Phillips, Joseph Murphy, Edward Doherty, John Laverty, Paddy-----
- Seanad: Order of Business (1 Jul 2014)
John Gilroy: Which of them? With which names does Senator Mark Daly want to play games?
- Seanad: Order of Business (1 Jul 2014)
John Gilroy: Senator Mark Daly reduced the deaths of people to a mere counting game. It is absolutely disgraceful and shameful.
- Seanad: Order of Business (1 Jul 2014)
John Gilroy: Sinn Féin moved from it years ago.
- Seanad: Order of Business (1 Jul 2014)
John Gilroy: I have plenty of questions for her. Sinn Féin moved from it years ago and reached out a hand to its former opponents and enemies. That is not something Senator Mark Daly has even moved towards. It is despicable nationalism; it is despicable republicanism, the republicanism of no decent minded person. I have raised mental health issues time and again. Many find section 59 of the...
- Seanad: Order of Business (26 Jun 2014)
John Gilroy: All of them perhaps.
- Seanad: Order of Business (26 Jun 2014)
John Gilroy: It is with some regret that I find myself in agreement with what Senator Darragh O'Brien said about the mental health services in this country. I worked as a psychiatric nurse for 28 years, up to 2011, and what I hear from former - and future - colleagues makes for very dispiriting listening. I refer to the report Senator O'Brien mentioned by the Mental Health Commission and the Inspector...
- Seanad: Health Insurance (Reform) Bill 2014: Second Stage (25 Jun 2014)
John Gilroy: I welcome the Minister, Deputy James Reilly, to the House and thank Senator Feargal Quinn for bringing forward these proposals. Although I do not propose to support the legislation, it affords us a welcome opportunity to discuss issues relating to the health insurance market The explanatory memorandum refers to the significant decline in recent years in the numbers availing of private...
- Seanad: Public Health (Standardised Packaging of Tobacco) Bill 2014: Committee and Remaining Stages (24 Jun 2014)
John Gilroy: Senators Burke and MacSharry have neatly summed up what I wanted to say. I congratulate the Minister on taking another step in the journey to making Ireland tobacco free. It is a good move. This is comprehensive and robust legislation and will stand up to any challenge it may face in the future. I wish him well in his further steps on this journey towards making Ireland tobacco free.
- Seanad: Public Health (Standardised Packaging of Tobacco) Bill 2014: Committee and Remaining Stages (24 Jun 2014)
John Gilroy: Section 7(1)(f) refers to inserted items.
- Seanad: Public Health (Standardised Packaging of Tobacco) Bill 2014: Committee and Remaining Stages (24 Jun 2014)
John Gilroy: It is a question of bringing subsection (11) on to it as well.
- Seanad: Public Health (Standardised Packaging of Tobacco) Bill 2014: Committee and Remaining Stages (24 Jun 2014)
John Gilroy: I have listened carefully to what has been said and agree wholeheartedly with the point Senator Crown is making. I wonder, however, whether the provisions in section 7, particularly subsections (1)(f) and (11), make the amendment unnecessary. They seem to me to cover the exact point Senator Crown is making.
- Seanad: Order of Business (24 Jun 2014)
John Gilroy: Their souls are the most important thing.
- Seanad: Order of Business (24 Jun 2014)
John Gilroy: I have been a consistent critic of our mental health services in a low key manner over recent years. I am highly conscious of the fact that it is not in anybody's interests to be shouting or scoring political points on this. However, there is a serious problem in the mental health services, and we can cite the situation Senator Bacik raised. Senator Darragh O'Brien talks constantly about...
- Seanad: Criminal Justice (Amendment) Act 2009: Motion (19 Jun 2014)
John Gilroy: Is this for real?
- Seanad: Criminal Justice (Amendment) Act 2009: Motion (19 Jun 2014)
John Gilroy: Without any exasperation.
- Seanad: Criminal Justice (Amendment) Act 2009: Motion (19 Jun 2014)
John Gilroy: Is this a parallel Senate? Is it parallel to any normal democracy?
- Seanad: Criminal Justice (Amendment) Act 2009: Motion (19 Jun 2014)
John Gilroy: It would nationalise organised crime.
- Seanad: Criminal Justice (Amendment) Act 2009: Motion (19 Jun 2014)
John Gilroy: I am absolutely perplexed and amazed. Words fail me when I see a party that purports to be a democratic party offering some sort of sympathy to these organised thugs. I suppose it was not that long ago that many of these thugs were fellow travellers of the same party. I can point to some-----
- Seanad: Criminal Justice (Amendment) Act 2009: Motion (19 Jun 2014)
John Gilroy: I am glad that my social media strategies work. It is rather remarkable. A six year old boy is lucky to be alive after being shot by absolute thugs in Dublin during the week. How are we going to prosecute people who carry out these crimes? What is the way to prosecute them if they are likely to shoot a child or intimidate juries? Our friends on the Opposition bench offer some comfort to...