Results 641-660 of 1,954 for speaker:John Gilroy
- Seanad: Mental Health Services: Motion (4 Dec 2013)
John Gilroy: I went along last week. It was very good. I congratulate the Minister of State.
- Seanad: Mental Health Services: Motion (4 Dec 2013)
John Gilroy: Perhaps, but this is an issue we must address. I accept it may result in too many patients in one service but it is a good thing that more people would be seen by the better services. There is no method for knowing where are the good and bad practices. I am rapporteur for suicide prevention on the Joint Committee on Health and Children. I will be bringing a report to the committee and to...
- Seanad: Mental Health Services: Motion (4 Dec 2013)
John Gilroy: I welcome the Minister of State to the Chamber.
- Seanad: Mental Health Services: Motion (4 Dec 2013)
John Gilroy: I was just thinking the same thing as I listened to Senator Barrett's generous comments. Perhaps I should tear up this script and make up something else. I started to work as a psychiatric nurse in 1984, which was the year in which a policy document, Planning for the Future, was published with great fanfare. The main provision in the document was a proposal to close this country's old-style...
- Seanad: Order of Business (28 Nov 2013)
John Gilroy: Some 58,000 jobs have been created.
- Seanad: Sea Fisheries and Maritime Jurisdiction (Fixed Penalty Notice) Bill 2013: Second Stage (27 Nov 2013)
John Gilroy: I welcome the Minister to the Chamber. While I am not opposed to the general objectives and thrust of this Bill, the detail is another matter. Seafood exports are worth €415 million to the economy, a little known fact among the public. Senator Ó Domhnaill has drawn our attention to the fact that 11,600 people are directly employed in this sector. Many of the areas where these...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Health Information and Quality Authority Corporate Plan 2013-2015: Discussion (26 Nov 2013)
John Gilroy: This democracy thing is a little tiresome.
- Seanad: Protected Disclosures Bill 2013: Report and Final Stages (20 Nov 2013)
John Gilroy: Bring in an amendment.
- Seanad: Order of Business (19 Nov 2013)
John Gilroy: Hear, hear.
- Seanad: Order of Business (19 Nov 2013)
John Gilroy: I join in the welcome to Ms Jody Blake. I hope she missed us as much as we missed her. It is great to her back at work. I share in the expression of condolences to Senator Eamonn Coghlan on his recent bereavement. We were all very shocked and upset to hear of Senator Jimmy Harte's accident on Friday night. It is a real mark of the man to note the number of telephone calls I received from...
- Seanad: Electricity Transmission Network: Motion (13 Nov 2013)
John Gilroy: That is a matter for the Senator to consider.
- Seanad: Order of Business (13 Nov 2013)
John Gilroy: Hear, hear. The Leader is dead right.
- Seanad: Order of Business (13 Nov 2013)
John Gilroy: That is not fair.
- Seanad: Order of Business (13 Nov 2013)
John Gilroy: That is dreadful.
- Seanad: Order of Business (13 Nov 2013)
John Gilroy: Deputy Micheál Martin does not read reports.
- Seanad: Order of Business (13 Nov 2013)
John Gilroy: Noel Dempsey and Dermot Ahern, was it?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: End-of-Life Care: Discussion (Resumed) (7 Nov 2013)
John Gilroy: Deputy Kelleher has already asked most of the questions I intended to ask. The death of a child must be the greatest catastrophe to be visited on any family. The evidence given this morning was rather distressing, to be honest. To choose the particular career path that the witnesses have chosen requires a very special kind of dedication and I mean that in the best possible sense....
- Seanad: Social Welfare and Pensions Bill 2013: Committee Stage (6 Nov 2013)
John Gilroy: It is the predictable truth.
- Seanad: Social Welfare and Pensions Bill 2013: Committee Stage (6 Nov 2013)
John Gilroy: You spent 30 years forcing young people in the North to emigrate.
- Seanad: Social Welfare and Pensions Bill 2013: Committee Stage (6 Nov 2013)
John Gilroy: Your party did.