Results 121-140 of 1,954 for speaker:John Gilroy
- Seanad: Order of Business (21 Apr 2015)
John Gilroy: Senator Rónán Mullen is making a mountain out of a molehill. The photograph in question is a single photograph and the Garda Commissioner has expressed an opinion on it already; to try to generate further publicity out of it is disingenuous. While we welcome Senator Thomas Byrne's contribution and his welcome for Deputy Willie Penrose's Bill, which we hope will come on to the...
- Seanad: Order of Business (21 Apr 2015)
John Gilroy: While he purports to portray his comments as support for the Bill it is nakedly obvious that it only cynical positioning ahead of the next election.
- Seanad: Order of Business (21 Apr 2015)
John Gilroy: Perhaps we could have a debate on our insolvency mechanisms and enable Deputy Penrose's Bill to have a smoother transition through both Houses?
- Seanad: Order of Business (31 Mar 2015)
John Gilroy: No one is proposing to rewrite it.
- Seanad: Order of Business (31 Mar 2015)
John Gilroy: The Senator should check his facts.
- Seanad: Order of Business (31 Mar 2015)
John Gilroy: Let us have that debate.
- Seanad: Order of Business (31 Mar 2015)
John Gilroy: The Fianna Fáil Party's view, as outlined by Senator Byrne of Irish history is rather charming in its simplicity. We would all love to live in the simple black and white world that Fianna Fáil portray Irish history to be.
- Seanad: Order of Business (31 Mar 2015)
John Gilroy: It fails to acknowledge the complexity of the positions, the motivation and the actions that lead to the formation of this State. Lest there by anyone in any doubt about how Fianna Fáil rewrites history in a self serving type of way, we note that the only thing Fianna Fáil can say about the Rising today is to focus on a negative thing on the day the Government announced the...
- Seanad: Order of Business (31 Mar 2015)
John Gilroy: The day that something really good and positive happens, the Fianna Fáil Party focuses on the negative.
- Seanad: Order of Business (31 Mar 2015)
John Gilroy: : Let us recall this is the party of men who stood in the General Post Office in 1916
- Seanad: Order of Business (31 Mar 2015)
John Gilroy: The men who stood in the General Post Office in 1916, de Valera and Lemass who were the founders of the party that brought this country to ruin 100 years after they had made a stand in the GPO.
- Seanad: Order of Business (31 Mar 2015)
John Gilroy: What would they be thinking today?
- Seanad: Order of Business (31 Mar 2015)
John Gilroy: I support Senator Byrne's view that there should be an early debate to tease out different positions.
- Seanad: Order of Business (31 Mar 2015)
John Gilroy: That is the worst insult the Senator could give me-----
- Seanad: Order of Business (31 Mar 2015)
John Gilroy: -----that I was a member of Fianna Fáil.
- Seanad: Children and Family Relationships Bill 2015: Report and Final Stages (30 Mar 2015)
John Gilroy: It should not be allowed to stand.
- Seanad: Children and Family Relationships Bill 2015: Report and Final Stages (30 Mar 2015)
John Gilroy: Why would the Government be in the pocket of the clinics? That is nonsense.
- Seanad: Children and Family Relationships Bill 2015: Report and Final Stages (30 Mar 2015)
John Gilroy: Not yet
- Seanad: Children and Family Relationships Bill 2015: Report and Final Stages (30 Mar 2015)
John Gilroy: He is doing a disservice to the Senator's argument.
- Seanad: Children and Family Relationships Bill 2015: Report and Final Stages (30 Mar 2015)
John Gilroy: Hear, hear