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

John Gilroy: ...of data in this area. Mr. Molloy set out 33 items of correspondence with the HSE, which translates into many hours of meetings and extensive consideration of information and reading. How did Mr. Molloy feel when the report was published and there were early media suggestions that the HSE was threatening to bring HIQA to court over it? Did Mr. Molloy get a sinking feeling and did it...

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

John Gilroy: ...like "subset of a directorate". The submission was laden with jargon and seemed to be designed to obscure the issues rather than to enlighten us. I am sorry for being so harsh but this is how I feel about it. Mr. O'Brien seemed to be suggesting that one of his concerns about the HIQA report was the absence of reference to individuals.

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

John Gilroy: ...where budgets should be maintained, if not expanded, in order to maintain quality of service. I ask the witnesses to comment. I am sure they can hear the sense of frustration in my voice but I feel that I am no wiser now than I was before they spoke.

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

John Gilroy: ...'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 benefits of the recovery. It is important that real people feel real benefits and that the recovery is not just seen at a macro level. We can point to the macro figures, which are all...

Seanad: Betting (Amendment) Bill 2013: Report and Final Stages (18 Feb 2015)

John Gilroy: ...industry needs to be regulated. We all know of heartbreaking cases of gambling addiction which need to be dealt with urgently. As we stated earlier, we could not support the amendment because we feel it would be better placed in the gambling control Bill. I believe the Minister of State will take heed of what Senator O'Brien stated - that there is no timeframe for the gambling control...

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: Water Services Bill 2014: Committee Stage (Resumed) (22 Dec 2014)

John Gilroy: .... We listened to some dreadful tosh last Friday when Senators stuck their heads in holes in the ground, although when I listen to some of the contributions made by Opposition Senators, I sometimes feel like sticking my head into a hole in the ground.

Seanad: Water Services Bill 2014: Committee Stage (19 Dec 2014)

John Gilroy: ...morning with Senator Byrne about this amendment. It is a decent attempt to reach some sort of compromise on the matter. I have put a lot of thought into this since we spoke this morning. While I feel I should support the amendment, I have one or two genuine questions that mean I cannot support it in its current form. I will explain why if the Members opposite can listen without...

Seanad: Water Services Bill 2014: Committee Stage (19 Dec 2014)

John Gilroy: ...we should not legislate to refer this to a constitutional convention because doing so would be interfering with the autonomy of the convention. We would be obliging it to consider something it may feel is not appropriate. The Senators opposite may shake their heads but my remarks comprise a genuine attempt to address the concerns that arise. If we want to start slagging each other...

Seanad: Water Services Bill 2014: Second Stage (Resumed) (18 Dec 2014)

John Gilroy: I was asked would I support the Bill and I said I would. I received 518 comments, some of which were not wholly positive from 126 irate people. That is a substantial number of people who feel annoyed enough about Irish Water to tweet about it. Senator Mooney said he received 4,000 e-mails lobbying him but I only received 1,000. Obviously the Opposition is more popular than the Government...

Seanad: Standards of Care in Residential Care Homes: Statements (10 Dec 2014)

John Gilroy: ...the overwhelming majority of people working in them are decent, hard-working people. That point cannot be forgotten. We must approach this in a cool way, despite the level of anger we justifiably feel. I was a little concerned to hear in the early comments from Pat Healy, Tony O'Brien and the Minister on the programme, and the Minister also mentioned it in her statement here, about...

Seanad: Finance Bill 2014: Second Stage (4 Dec 2014)

John Gilroy: I welcome the measures proposed in the Finance Bill. Having suffered eight austerity budgets the time has come when the Government feels that public finances are such that people can be given a bit of a break. While most of the measures in the budget are very modest they put money back in people's pockets, which is welcome. We understand it is the Opposition's role and function to oppose...

Seanad: Water Sector Reforms: Statements (25 Nov 2014)

John Gilroy: I was not going to speak on this issue, but I feel bound to comment on some of the contributions of my colleagues. I am bemused to hear Senator Mark Daly say Fianna Fáil is against water charges as that party signed up to the measure. If its regime had won out, we would have had water charges of €400 per year for the past three years.

Seanad: Order of Business (18 Nov 2014)

John Gilroy: ...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 State, Deputy Kathleen Lynch,...

Seanad: Order of Business (17 Jul 2014)

John Gilroy: ...not unaware of the concern expressed and the hardship caused. He said he was open to receiving representations not only from Government Members but from all Oireachtas Members. We left the meeting feeling rather confident that in due course there would be a positive outcome on all of the cuts made. I ask the Leader if will be possible to have a discussion on Seanad reform early in the...

Seanad: Health (General Practitioner Service) Bill 2014: Second Stage (2 Jul 2014)

John Gilroy: ...and said he had received 26 representations on health issues that very day. That struck me as more than most GPs in the room had received. There must be something very wrong with a system where people feel the first port of call for health care delivery is a politician rather than a medic. The diagnosis not the remedy is the awful two-tier system we have. There is competition for...

Seanad: Care of the Elderly: Motion (9 Apr 2014)

John Gilroy: .... In the end, my relative took advantage of the nursing home support scheme which was a smooth transition from home and community care to residential care. I was impressed by the way it worked. Perhaps we were just lucky but I feel that people in the service do receive a good level of care. Gaining access to the service might be where the real challenges lie. The Fianna Fáil...

Seanad: Health Insurance (Amendment) Bill 2013: Second Stage (12 Dec 2013)

John Gilroy: ...that when she telephoned VHI, her service provider, it could not adequately explain the reason for such a bill. One might even have said it was excessive at €1,700. Is it not strange that people feel they have to go to politicians? Is there not something wrong with the system when a member of the public must go to her local Senator to explain something rather than her health...

Seanad: Mental Health Services: Motion (4 Dec 2013)

John Gilroy: ...of an integrated, world-class, modern, effective and humane mental health policy. This country is sometimes not very good at drawing up policies in this area and many other areas. We sometimes feel that if we feed in policy at the top, it will come out oven-ready at the bottom. We need to remember that it needs to be mediated at every level in between. I am glad that when A Vision for...

Seanad: Services for People with Disabilities: Motion (25 Sep 2013)

John Gilroy: ...we can stand back and not make any cuts? We cannot do so, although the motion before us asks us to. We will probably vote on whether it should be done now. Senator Power has argued that if we feel in our hearts that this is the wrong action, we should act accordingly, which is a very good point. We should do that in this Chamber a bit more often. It may be premature to support or...