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Seanad: HSE National Service Plan 2015: Statements (20 Jan 2015)

John Gilroy: ...comments on that. Is he concerned about this? My colleague and friend, Senator MacSharry, during his - I have to say - ill-informed contribution, referred to what the Minister of State, Deputy Lynch, said about the crisis she feels might be developing in staffing in the mental health services. There is a danger that 1,000 staff might be leaving the system this year. It is an ongoing...

Seanad: Order of Business (20 Jan 2015)

John Gilroy: I wish to speak about the proposed increase in registration fees for nurses and midwives. This is an 80% increase over two years from €88 two years ago to a proposed €150 this year. If the costs rose as a result of legislative changes there might be a case to be made, although I think the case would be a very poor one. There is a growing and deepening suspicion that a figure...

Seanad: Health Insurance (Amendment) Bill 2014: Second Stage (15 Dec 2014)

John Gilroy: ...x20ac;17,000. One could get a month in a hotel in Florida for the same accommodation costs. When we questioned it, we got no answer, no breakdown of the costs and how it could be that such an exorbitant fee was charged by the hospital and the health insurance company appeared quite happy to pay it. The Labour Party will support the Bill which is long overdue. Senator Denis O'Donovan...

Seanad: Order of Business (18 Nov 2014)

John Gilroy: I will add my voice to the concerns expressed by nurses and midwives about the recent increase in registration fees, representing an 88% increase in the retention fee in just one year. Among my colleagues, there is a distinct feeling that there is no justification for this increase and none has been proposed by the Irish Nursing Board. I raised this issue in the Chamber with the Minister of...

Seanad: Health (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2014: Second Stage (6 Nov 2014)

John Gilroy: ...; Murchú raised about the finance-raising element of the Bill. I raise this in the context of the concerns of 89,000 active registered nurses who find themselves facing a 50% increase in their registration fees. It is certainly going to present a problem to us in the new year, when these fees fall due for payment. The representative bodies of the various nursing disciplines have...

Seanad: Health Services: Statements (4 Nov 2014)

John Gilroy: ...briefly an impending crisis in the nursing profession on foot of the recent announcement by An Bord Altranais agus Cnáimhseachais, The Nursing and Midwifery Board, of an increase of 50% in registration fees. I note the representative bodies are encouraging their members not to pay this fee and by January, several thousand pupils will find themselves unregistered. Is a contingency...

Seanad: Credit Reporting Bill 2012: Second Stage (11 Dec 2013)

John Gilroy: ...information. What kind of data might this be and what use could it be put to if it is at such a macro level? Senator Darragh O’Brien, in his good contribution earlier, referred to banks passing on fees for accessing information to their customers. It would be in a bank’s interests to seek credit information but also not to pass on any levy or fee. However, I am not sure...

Seanad: Register of Lobbyists Legislation: Motion (26 Jun 2013)

John Gilroy: ...always looked at each other with a wry smile on their faces. Often we wonder about the incentive of most of the developers who were entertained and wined and dined and had to pay substantial fees to visit the famous tent at Ballybrit. I wonder whether some of the things we know now, but which seemed obscure at time, would have happened if developers did not have such ready access to...

Seanad: Budget 2013: Statements (5 Dec 2012)

John Gilroy: ...were very sceptical about our ability to maintain that ratio. Now that we have done so, I am sure that those involved in the education sector will be happy. It was not possible to do the same in fee paying schools, but in terms of reducing the subsidy to fee paying schools from the public purse, we have done this in a reasonably fair way. The increase in student fees in third level...

Seanad: Water Services (Amendment) Bill 2011: Committee Stage (Resumed) (23 Nov 2011)

John Gilroy: The €50 fee is giving rise to a great deal of trouble. Senator Ó Murchú referred to the urban-rural divide. I must remind Senator Cullinane - because it appears to have slipped his mind - that it is not discriminatory to charge someone in a particular area €50 when one is also imposing development charges on those who live in urban and semi-urban areas. Members of Sinn Féin have not...

Seanad: Medical Practitioners (Amendment) Bill 2011: Second Stage (8 Jul 2011)

John Gilroy: ...policies have contributed to this situation. The 2009-2010 report shows the college has an annual turnover of €180 million and will probably find itself increasingly reliant on the high fees payable by non-EU entrants. This will have implications for the future staffing of hospitals. There seems to be no alignment of medical training programmes and trainee numbers to meet estimated...

Seanad: Finance (No. 2) Bill 2011 (Certified Money Bill): Second Stage (15 Jun 2011)

John Gilroy: ...in the past and remain extremely tax efficient instruments at present. Like my colleague, Senator Zappone, I understand the managers of pension funds charge as much as 1.5% per annum in management fees and must rank among the most highly remunerated people in Ireland. I wonder idly whether one could find a way to facilitate these high earners to display their undoubted sense of...