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

John Gilroy: The people who were in government-----

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

John Gilroy: If members of a Government turn around and say that they were not governing and blame the Opposition for the policies that it implemented, I do not think that it is a good Government at all.

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

John Gilroy: The Senator's party was in government.

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

John Gilroy: It was Senator Ó Domhnaill's party that made the decisions; it boomed it.

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

John Gilroy: It was the former leader of the Senator's party who coined the phrase and called it "boomier". The boom was going to get boomier. Having spoken for a moment on our previous Government's role in fiscal irresponsibility, we should now talk about fiscal responsibility, which is what the economic statement is about. Jobs are the only show in town if we are to allow people feel the real...

Seanad: Order of Business (29 Apr 2015)

John Gilroy: That is right.

Seanad: Mental Health Services: Statements (29 Apr 2015)

John Gilroy: I welcome the Minister of State to the Chamber. I am glad to see her here again. No one in this Chamber or outside would ever doubt her commitment to reform of the mental health services. I will take a look at the historical or legacy obstacles that face us to put in context some of the challenges with which we are faced in the mental health services, both child and adolescent services and...

Seanad: Mental Health Services: Statements (29 Apr 2015)

John Gilroy: There are 12 at present but my information is that not all these are functional.

Seanad: Mental Health Services: Statements (29 Apr 2015)

John Gilroy: In 1984, there was another momentous development. In 1984, the report, Planning for the Future, was published. Planning for the Future proposed a pathway through which we would close the large institutions and move psychiatry and mental health into the community. That was followed by a series of seven-year plans, which worked and built upon the policy framework set out in Planning for the...

Seanad: Order of Business (28 Apr 2015)

John Gilroy: We must salute and commend Senator Darragh O’Brien in his attempts to find something negative to say today. It really is a remarkable achievement to be able to find a way to criticise the hard work and sacrifice of the people that enabled the economy to turn around.

Seanad: Order of Business (28 Apr 2015)

John Gilroy: Is Senator O'Brien now saying that it was not the people who made the sacrifice?

Seanad: Order of Business (28 Apr 2015)

John Gilroy: If it was not the people whom Fianna Fáil is prepared to say made the sacrifice-----

Seanad: Order of Business (28 Apr 2015)

John Gilroy: -----perhaps it was the negativity that Fianna Fáil and Sinn Féin poured out for the past four years that has turned the country around. On every occasion when the Government announced a target, Senator O’Brien criticised it and said it was unachievable. He said it was announced that we would create the conditions to-----

Seanad: Order of Business (28 Apr 2015)

John Gilroy: When it was announced in 2012 that we would create the conditions to create 90,000 jobs, Senator O’Brien and his party were the first out of the traps saying it cannot be done. In that time 100,000 jobs have been created. When it was announced that we were reducing the VAT rate to 9% to stimulate employment and activity in the tourism sector, Senator O’Brien, Fianna Fáil...

Seanad: Order of Business (28 Apr 2015)

John Gilroy: The reduced VAT rate has been a great success. No commentator would think differently. When we said we would remove 400,000 people from the universal social charge, which Fianna Fáil introduced in 2010 and it kicked in at €4,000, they said it could not be done.

Seanad: Order of Business (28 Apr 2015)

John Gilroy: By the end of the year 500,000 people will be removed from USC. Senator O’Brien is calling for a debate on the economic recovery, which has been driven by the people, and would like to have one or both Ministers in the Chamber to discuss it. I am fully in favour of that and endorse his views on it. I recognise that it is not possible to do it today but as soon as possible. We will...

Seanad: Order of Business (28 Apr 2015)

John Gilroy: Well done.

Seanad: Order of Business (28 Apr 2015)

John Gilroy: What is the Senator doing in Sinn Féin?

Seanad: Order of Business (28 Apr 2015)

John Gilroy: There are plenty of extra gardaí in Templemore.

Seanad: Order of Business (23 Apr 2015)

John Gilroy: Tomorrow, 24 April, marks the 99th anniversary of the Easter Rising and it is appropriate that this House should acknowledge that fact. Saturday, 25 April, marks the commemoration of ANZAC day, which saw 3,000 Irish men and boys dying on the shores of Gallipoli. Those 3,000 people are as Irish as the heroes of the 1916 Rising. The complexity of our history is illustrated nicely, or...