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Seanad: Water Fluoridation: Motion (30 Jan 2013)

John Gilroy: No, one could not have that.

Seanad: Order of Business (30 Jan 2013)

John Gilroy: I call on the Leader to arrange for the Minister for Finance to come into the House to give a brief description and clarification of what is happening with regard to the impending deadline for the payment of the promissory notes. It is important that the negotiators are allowed as much autonomy and freedom as possible to negotiate but it is also important that, as a democracy, this and the...

Seanad: Order of Business (30 Jan 2013)

John Gilroy: Of course, but it seemed that there was a certain glee in that spokesperson's voice that things were not going perhaps as good as-----

Seanad: Order of Business (30 Jan 2013)

John Gilroy: It is not fair.

Seanad: Order of Business (30 Jan 2013)

John Gilroy: I support my colleague, Senator O'Neill, in his comments asking Senator MacSharry to withdraw his rather inappropriate remarks. It invites a level of ridicule when we hear Fianna Fáil speaking of corruption given that it did not have a leader among its last four who did not leave without a cloud over his head.

Seanad: Order of Business (30 Jan 2013)

John Gilroy: Sermons on corruption from Fianna Fáil. That is a good one.

Seanad: Address to Seanad Éireann by Mr. Gay Mitchell, MEP (24 Jan 2013)

John Gilroy: I welcome Mr. Mitchell. In his address, he referred to the notion of sovereignty and how it is his opinion that ascension to the EU has strengthened and achieved a real level of sovereignty. It is an opinion I share. Each succeeding treaty we passed has strengthened that level of sovereignty. Sovereignty is about much more than the ability to say "No". It is about partnership and making...

Seanad: Community Development: Motion (Resumed) (23 Jan 2013)

John Gilroy: There is warm support for it.

Seanad: Community Development: Motion (Resumed) (23 Jan 2013)

John Gilroy: I am glad to be able to speak on this motion. I will confine my comments to policing. It is important that legislators and policy-makers be very careful in the language they use in this regard. There are two issues at stake with regard to policing, the first of which is public safety, which is important, and the second of which is public confidence, which is equally important. Legislators...

Seanad: Community Development: Motion (Resumed) (23 Jan 2013)

John Gilroy: No. We will deal with facts here as opposed to supposition. The statistics indicate that people living in the greater Dublin area are more likely to be victims of burglary while the Border counties and the south west have the lowest rate of break-ins.

Seanad: Community Development: Motion (Resumed) (23 Jan 2013)

John Gilroy: These are the official statistics, as reported by the Garda.

Seanad: Community Development: Motion (Resumed) (23 Jan 2013)

John Gilroy: We can make up statistics. The Senator is entitled to his opinion but he is not entitled to make up facts. I am quoting the actual facts.

Seanad: Community Development: Motion (Resumed) (23 Jan 2013)

John Gilroy: Giving the impression that crime is on the rise, although the opposite is the case, terrifies people who need not be terrified. The Garda and policing patterns are changing. Senator Ó Clochartaigh said people do not enjoy the same policing patterns that their grandparents enjoyed. I am glad they do not because society has moved on enormously in the past 50 years.

Seanad: Community Development: Motion (Resumed) (23 Jan 2013)

John Gilroy: What is occurring is an undermining of public confidence in the Garda, which I believe is doing a great job, bearing in mind that would all like to see more gardaí on the street. Let us consider the crime of burglary, for example. Is it the garda on the beat or in the rural Garda station who solves and prevents burglaries? It is not. Up to June of last year, there was an increase, of up...

Seanad: Community Development: Motion (Resumed) (23 Jan 2013)

John Gilroy: The statistics show that people living in the greater Dublin area are more likely to be victims of burglary, while the Border counties and south west have the lowest rate. One cannot make up one's own statistics, including on Galway. The statistics do not bear out the Senator's argument. It is in the Dublin area, as opposed to rural areas, that crimes are more likely to be carried out. To...

Seanad: Order of Business (23 Jan 2013)

John Gilroy: Hear, hear.

Seanad: Order of Business (23 Jan 2013)

John Gilroy: I rise to express my concern with regard to some aspects of employment law as it stands. It seems that in the current economic climate the rights of employees are often overlooked and neglected. I say as much in the context of a situation that is evolving in Athboy, County Meath, at a hotel called the Old Darnley Lodge. The staff at the Old Darnley Lodge were informed last Wednesday, with...

Seanad: Order of Business (23 Jan 2013)

John Gilroy: I apologise for that. I am calling on the former manager of the Meath football team to contact employees and clarify the situation.

Seanad: Order of Business (22 Jan 2013)

John Gilroy: In the context of Senator Labhrás Ó Murchú's reference to good news, there were several pieces of good news on the economic front recently that have not been referred to, except by Senator Cáit Keane, in the House today. The first concerns the agreement in principle, reached last night, that the repayment schedule of our debt to the EFSF and the ECB will be extended. This is very good...

Seanad: Order of Business (22 Jan 2013)

John Gilroy: On a point of order-----