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Seanad: Order of Business (11 Jun 2015)

John Gilroy: I have.

Seanad: Order of Business (11 Jun 2015)

John Gilroy: I have several. I could not allow the bandwagon effect to pass without comment. On an unrelated matter, there are some anomalies in the price structuring fare of public transport in Ireland. A comparison of bus fares in Cork and similar bus fares in Dublin shows a price differential. I ask the acting Leading to facilitate a debate with the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport on...

Seanad: Health (General Practitioner Service) Bill 2015: Second Stage (11 Jun 2015)

John Gilroy: That is a very poor argument.

Seanad: Health (General Practitioner Service) Bill 2015: Second Stage (11 Jun 2015)

John Gilroy: Other children have been born in the meantime to replace those growing older.

Seanad: Health (General Practitioner Service) Bill 2015: Second Stage (11 Jun 2015)

John Gilroy: That is also a poor argument.

Seanad: Health (General Practitioner Service) Bill 2015: Second Stage (11 Jun 2015)

John Gilroy: I welcome the Minister of State. Universal GP services for citizens over 70 are most welcome. It is a very good day for our health service as we put in place the legislative underpinnings for this. It represents the second phase of our reform of the health service, following on from free GP care for the under-sixes. The small step to which Senator Crown referred directly affects 300,000...

Seanad: Health (General Practitioner Service) Bill 2015: Second Stage (11 Jun 2015)

John Gilroy: We have learned our lesson; however, some of the problems we now face stem from those times and the lack of reform. Let us not enter into a blame game. This is part of the programme for Government. Senator John Crown is correct to remind us that the former Minister for Health, Deputy James Reilly, told us that it would take two terms to deliver universal health care. It is a reasonable...

Seanad: Health (General Practitioner Service) Bill 2015: Second Stage (11 Jun 2015)

John Gilroy: Free for them, that is. We have discussed the first and second steps. Presumably, a third step will be taken shortly. Will it involve free GP care based on an age cohort or another model? Will it be, perhaps, in blocks of six years, up to the age of 12 and later up to the age of 18 when resources and finances become available? While it is a small step, it is more than the minimal step...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: HIQA Investigation into Midland Regional Hospital, Portlaoise (Resumed): Parents and Patient Advocates (19 May 2015)

John Gilroy: I welcome Ollie and Amy, and Róisín and Mark. They have my deepest and profound sympathy. I also welcome Sheila O'Connor and Cathriona Molloy from Patient Focus. It is terribly important that they are here today because while the HIQA report makes for powerful reading, the testimony we have heard gives an insight that nothing else could achieve. I salute them for that. Ms...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: HIQA Investigation into Midland Regional Hospital, Portlaoise (Resumed): Parents and Patient Advocates (19 May 2015)

John Gilroy: I am a psychiatric staff nurse myself and have worked in the service for 30 years. I noticed that when advocacy was brought in, in parallel with the new Mental Health Act, the culture changed overnight at all staff levels. It was remarkable how the culture changed overnight when there was outside scrutiny. Mrs. Róisín Molloy alleges that case notes were changed. I do not want...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: HIQA Investigation into Midland Regional Hospital, Portlaoise (Resumed): Health Service Executive (19 May 2015)

John Gilroy: Mr. O'Brien started his contribution today by acknowledging the convention that contributions are circulated in advance, but he deviated from the convention. Why did he not circulate his response to us?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: HIQA Investigation into Midland Regional Hospital, Portlaoise (Resumed): Health Service Executive (19 May 2015)

John Gilroy: I understand that but I was just curious about it. That leads me to my second point. At this morning's session we heard powerful and moving contributions from the families. The one message that I heard very clearly concerned the difficulty in obtaining information. I am very frustrated by what I am hearing this afternoon because in my view, Mr. O'Brien's contribution bears very little...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: HIQA Investigation into Midland Regional Hospital, Portlaoise (Resumed): Health Service Executive (19 May 2015)

John Gilroy: Mr. O'Brien seemed to be suggesting in his contribution that his concerns relating to the HIQA report were primarily due to the absence of reference to individuals. I ask him to elaborate on that point.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: HIQA Investigation into Midland Regional Hospital, Portlaoise (Resumed): Health Service Executive (19 May 2015)

John Gilroy: He did say that. Finally, when there was talk about legal obligations and judicial reviews, did Mr. O'Brien have any regard to how the families might have felt on hearing such public pronouncements at a time when one of the most emotive topics was being discussed widely in the media? My final point relates to cutting budgets in the areas of training and advocacy. I would have thought...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Update on Health Issues: Department of Health and Health Service Executive (14 May 2015)

John Gilroy: I have a single question for the Minister. At a time of unprecedented public concern about suicide rates, the Reach Out national suicide prevention strategy seems to have expired. In March 2014, this committee was told that a new policy framework would be in place by November 2014. We are now into the fifth month of 2015 which makes the framework strategy seven months late. Could the...

Seanad: Alcohol Consumption in Ireland: Statements (12 May 2015)

John Gilroy: I welcome the Minister. When I turned on the television a week or so ago to flick through what was on, I came across an incredibly named programme called "Drunk History" on one of the British cable channels. The format of the programme involved some comedians, or so-called comedians, discussing history while drunk. I do not know who thought comedians discussing history could be...

Seanad: Order of Business (7 May 2015)

John Gilroy: Did the late Margaret Thatcher do it?

Seanad: Spring Economic Statement: Statements (6 May 2015)

John Gilroy: That is not true.

Seanad: Spring Economic Statement: Statements (6 May 2015)

John Gilroy: Senator Ó Domhnaill erroneously suggested that 95% of all jobs created were in the Dublin region. The Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation put the true figure on the record when he addressed the House last week. He also reminded us that if one takes a narrow snapshot of statistics, one can find any result one wishes. However, the standardised techniques through which the CSO...

Seanad: Spring Economic Statement: Statements (6 May 2015)

John Gilroy: The Labour Party was not in government.