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Seanad: SME Envoy Networks: Statements (3 Apr 2014)

John Gilroy: Hear, hear.

Seanad: SME Envoy Networks: Statements (3 Apr 2014)

John Gilroy: The Minister of State is very welcome to the Chamber. I read the address on stability through good governance that he delivered to the OSCE Economic and Environmental Forum some time ago and I was very impressed by it. Most of the points made were very good. The importance of good governance cannot be overstated. While we have made good strides in this area recently, we still have some...

Seanad: Order of Business (3 Apr 2014)

John Gilroy: Again.

Seanad: Order of Business (1 Apr 2014)

John Gilroy: This is madness. The Senator does not understand the system at all.

Seanad: Order of Business (1 Apr 2014)

John Gilroy: I do not propose that Senator Darragh O'Brien take this personally. I do not intend it as a smear on him. Senator Darragh O'Brien is a decent, honourable Senator-----

Seanad: Order of Business (1 Apr 2014)

John Gilroy: -----but I am saying that this is an opportunistic move on behalf of Fianna Fáil and I find this-----

Seanad: Order of Business (1 Apr 2014)

John Gilroy: I can only call what I see here and that is what I do.

Seanad: Order of Business (1 Apr 2014)

John Gilroy: I do not intend to withdraw the remark. I am going to leave the remark to stand on the record because we are asked to consider this to be just a coincidence and it is far from that.

Seanad: Order of Business (1 Apr 2014)

John Gilroy: I intend to ask the Leader, with regard to my first contribution on the recently published crime figures, if we might have a debate on the issue at the earliest convenience.

Seanad: Order of Business (1 Apr 2014)

John Gilroy: I note that crime figures under most headings are down except in one or two areas, which is totally unacceptable. There is a matter of public confidence and public safety with regard to crime figures. The recent comment in the media about different types of crime being out of control is not borne out by the most recent figures released for 2011 and 2012. I ask the Leader to organise a time...

Seanad: Order of Business (1 Apr 2014)

John Gilroy: I had wished to speak about the recently published crime figures, but Senator Darragh O'Brien's speculation and dramatisation of events require that I comment. While his remarks add to the political tension, they shed no light. It is now 2.45 p.m. and he has requested that the Attorney General come to the House today-----

Seanad: Order of Business (1 Apr 2014)

John Gilroy: In accordance with the amendment proposed to the Order of Business, the Senator is insisting that she come to the House today.

Seanad: Order of Business (1 Apr 2014)

John Gilroy: It is obvious that Senator Darragh O'Brien has no interest in pursuing the issue of the Attorney General coming to the House. From his point of view ------

Seanad: Order of Business (1 Apr 2014)

John Gilroy: ----- it makes more sense to try to catch "Oireachtas Report" and in the great Fianna Fáil tradition to be seen trying to do something when it really does not want to do it.

Seanad: Order of Business (1 Apr 2014)

John Gilroy: If it was a real and serious proposal that the Attorney General come to the House today, she would have been given notice and it would have been scheduled for tomorrow or Thursday. I am loath to refer to it, but it brings the procedures of the House to a new low and shows indecency that the Fianna Fáil Party is using the circumstances of the death of a Member's father, at a time when...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Suicide in Ireland: Discussion (13 Mar 2014)

John Gilroy: I thank the Chairman for facilitating these two sessions today. It was tremendously useful in what I am proposing to do. I thank the witnesses for coming in. Their comments, constructive and otherwise, are more than welcome. As I stated earlier, the milieu in which good ideas arise is when there are conflicting views being thrown forward. If we all agreed on everything, we would have a...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Suicide in Ireland: Discussion (13 Mar 2014)

John Gilroy: On that point, it might be worthwhile for the message to go out that providers of alcohol might take a particularly responsible attitude towards the serving thereof this weekend.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Suicide in Ireland: Discussion (13 Mar 2014)

John Gilroy: Certainly. The Reach Out document does not contain a list of named agencies with responsibility for implementation or outcomes nor does it contain any timeframe for completion of the outcomes. That is not a criticism of the National Office for Suicide Prevention but rather of us as politicians. The Health Research Board published a document entitled Document No. 7 which included a rather...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Suicide in Ireland: Discussion (13 Mar 2014)

John Gilroy: To give context to what we are trying to achieve with this report, doing a public consultation throughout the country with members of the public who are not experts in this area but are interested in it is a starting point. Since I wrote the paper in draft form I have had the opportunity to meet some of the chief executive officers and leading people in some of our voluntary organisations....

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Suicide in Ireland: Discussion (13 Mar 2014)

John Gilroy: With the indulgence of the Chairman, I will repeat the remarks I made this morning at the outset of the earlier session in order to introduce a level of consistency between the respective groups of witnesses. I thank the Chairman for his ongoing support for this public consultation process. I also welcome the witnesses who are giving evidence this morning. I do not intend to say a great...