Results 1-16 of 16 for destroyed speaker:John Gilroy

Seanad: Health Services: Statements (4 Nov 2014)

John Gilroy: ...during my 30 years as a psychiatric nurse or even during the 20 years before I entered the service. Section 58 of the Mental Health Act pertains to psychosurgery, which "means any surgical operation that destroys brain tissue or the functioning of brain tissue and which is performed for the purposes of ameliorating a mental disorder". I do not know what this provision is doing in a...

Seanad: Order of Business (21 Oct 2014)

John Gilroy: ...) of the same Act begins: "Where it is proposed to perform psycho-surgery on a patient..." Section 58(6) defines psycho-surgery: "In this section "psycho-surgery" means any surgical operation that destroys brain tissue or the functioning of brain tissue and which is performed for the purposes of ameliorating a mental disorder." It is absolutely obscene in this day and age that such a...

Seanad: Maternity Services: Motion (28 May 2014)

John Gilroy: He destroys his good points by making nonsense points.

Seanad: Protection of the Public Interest from Tobacco Lobbying Bill 2013: Second Stage (18 Dec 2013)

John Gilroy: Is the Senator suggesting the officials destroyed the country?

Seanad: Budget 2014: Statements (15 Oct 2013)

John Gilroy: ...people will try and say here, austerity is not a policy. It is a necessity after the previous Fianna Fáil-led Government, of which my two friends were members, drove this economy on to the rocks and destroyed it. Therefore, what could we do but only try to retrieve an almost hopeless situation. I remember when we came in here first and were informed of exactly how bad the situation...

Seanad: An Bille um Dara Leasú is Tríocha ar an mBunreacht (Deireadh a chur le Seanad Éireann) 2013: An Cúigiú Céim - Thirty-second Amendment of the Constitution (Abolition of Seanad Éireann) Bill 2013: Fifth Stage (23 Jul 2013)

John Gilroy: Apart from Fianna Fáil destroying the country.

Seanad: Finance Bill 2013 (Certified Money Bill): Second Stage (20 Mar 2013)

John Gilroy: ...some scope to do that. However, if we were to try to close the deficit by taxation measures alone, we could put 20% onto all tax heads in the next budget, if we were happy to do that, but it would destroy the economy. We must find a balance between cuts and revenue-raising measures. That is a dreadful decision to have to make. Dreadful decisions have been made, and further dreadful...

Seanad: Budget 2013: Statements (5 Dec 2012)

John Gilroy: The Senator's party destroyed the economy.

Seanad: Credit Union Bill 2012: Second Stage (4 Dec 2012)

John Gilroy: ...on the heroes whereas the revenge of the financial gods does not seem to have affected our financial heroes but instead every member of the public is affected and the country has been more or less destroyed. Our Irish heroes were swanning around the country receiving the acclamation of other Irish heroes such as the politicians and commentators. On 5 February 2007 in a glowing...

Seanad: Order of Business (Resumed) (14 Nov 2012)

John Gilroy: It causes me some distress to have to be critical of him, which is uncharacteristic of me. This is the first time since the Senator's Government destroyed the economy that an Irish bank has made a successful return to the money markets outside the guarantee, yet he can find something negative to say about this.

Seanad: Health Service Executive (Governance) Bill 2012: Second Stage (26 Sep 2012)

John Gilroy: That is one term shorter than the time it took for the Senator's party to destroy the country.

Seanad: Order of Business (19 Jul 2012)

John Gilroy: He was a man who never made decisions. He was the man who destroyed the health service.

Seanad: European Stability Mechanism Bill 2012: Committee and Remaining Stages (27 Jun 2012)

John Gilroy: ...if we unilaterally interfered with the ELA. It would also undermine the rules of monetary policy if we did that. What is more important is that while we could do that economically, it would destroy the reputation of the country. Of course, politics is about relationships - in this case, relationships with our partners in Europe and trying to find a common way forward. Although we said...

Seanad: Investment in Education: Motion (8 Feb 2012)

John Gilroy: It is a pity that Senator Mooney and his colleagues did not reflect on this before they destroyed the country.

Seanad: Order of Business (6 Dec 2011)

John Gilroy: They destroyed the country twice.

Seanad: Order of Business (6 Dec 2011)

John Gilroy: The country has been destroyed by Senator Daly and his colleagues.