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Seanad: United Nations Principles for Older Persons: Motion (21 Oct 2015)

John Gilroy: Sometimes old age is seen as a burden. Others think the accumulated benefits of aging, such as knowledge, experience and wisdom, mean it is not a burden but something that is welcome and necessary. As a society, as people and as policy makers, we must acknowledge our attitudes to aging and see where the fit into the dichotomy of views on aging. This takes on an increasing importance as our...

Seanad: Budget 2016: Statements (13 Oct 2015)

John Gilroy: The Senator should provide some facts. He has spoken only of the NAMA element and omitted to mention 90% of Government investment in housing.

Seanad: Budget 2016: Statements (13 Oct 2015)

John Gilroy: That sounds a little racist to me.

Seanad: Budget 2016: Statements (13 Oct 2015)

John Gilroy: I was beginning to wonder whether I was still in the Seanad Chamber or had suddenly found myself at the Kilkenomics comedy festival or something. The argument from Fianna Fáil, particularly from Senator MacSharry, to whom I have been listening for five years, seems to be that when Fianna Fáil was in government the Opposition decried calls for increased public spending and now that...

Seanad: Budget 2016: Statements (13 Oct 2015)

John Gilroy: As if I needed it to be proved.

Seanad: Budget 2016: Statements (13 Oct 2015)

John Gilroy: I thank the Senator. She is excellent.

Seanad: Budget 2016: Statements (13 Oct 2015)

John Gilroy: That is very helpful. I listened to the Sinn Féin contributions in the other House and read some press releases afterwards. One point referred to how the budget treats young people, in terms of how they are ignored and cast adrift. A clear example of the difference between the policy pursued by this Government and that which might be pursued if Sinn Féin was ever in government...

Seanad: Budget 2016: Statements (13 Oct 2015)

John Gilroy: Were we in government? Was the Senator in government? The same argument applies to him.

Seanad: Budget 2016: Statements (13 Oct 2015)

John Gilroy: The second reason is the over-reliance by the Fianna Fáil Government on Part 5 of the Planning Act to deliver social housing. The amount of investment-----

Seanad: Budget 2016: Statements (13 Oct 2015)

John Gilroy: Senator Ó Clochartaigh must have joined Fianna Fáil, or must be about to, given his vociferous defence of it. This budget is progressive and decent. It is a good start, it is prudent, and it sets the parameters for discussion and investment for the next three or four years. We should consider the record of those in government because past performance is an indication of future...

Seanad: Budget 2016: Statements (13 Oct 2015)

John Gilroy: Should we take it back?

Seanad: Budget 2016: Statements (13 Oct 2015)

John Gilroy: It is the opposite of regressive.

Seanad: Budget 2016: Statements (13 Oct 2015)

John Gilroy: We are more interested in curing the ills than maintaining them.

Seanad: Budget 2016: Statements (13 Oct 2015)

John Gilroy: There will be extra gardaí too. Sinn Féin does not like that part of it.

Seanad: Budget 2016: Statements (13 Oct 2015)

John Gilroy: That is not true. It is the opposite.

Seanad: Budget 2016: Statements (13 Oct 2015)

John Gilroy: That is wrong. Senator Ó Clochartaigh should read it.

Seanad: Budget 2016: Statements (13 Oct 2015)

John Gilroy: We all sit here for hours.

Seanad: Horizon 2020: Statements (8 Oct 2015)

John Gilroy: I welcome the Minister of State. I would like to comment on a statement made by my friend and colleague, Senator White, who referred to a letter written by 1,200 scientists - dated March 2011 - about two weeks after we formed the Government. Senator White seems to attempt to lay the blame for a failed Fianna Fáil policy on two weeks of the current Government's handling of the issue. I...

Seanad: Horizon 2020: Statements (8 Oct 2015)

John Gilroy: Absolutely. Cork is a perfect example. I was just going to come to it. The centres of employment in County Cork - Ringaskiddy, Little Island, Cork Airport Business Park - are magnets for inward investment. It is often too easy to think of inward investment as just being money. It is also skill, expertise, innovation, enterprise and everything. The energy that foreign direct investment...

Seanad: Pre-Budget Outlook: Statements (30 Sep 2015)

John Gilroy: There would be no tax cuts for a generation if that happened.