John Crown (Independent) | Oireachtas source

Go raibh maith agat. I warmly welcome my colleagues. I remember my own days as a trainee doctor, as an NCHD, with a mixture of the odd sleepless night and what it was like to be on call for three or four consecutive nights. I also recall it with a degree of nostalgia about the excitement of first being involved in our wonderful specialty. A couple of weeks ago we had the vote on the Irish Bank Resolution Corporation Bill. This rare event occurred when Deputies and Senators had to stay up until about 2.30 a.m. in the case of the Deputies and the more hardy Senators were up until about 6.30 a.m. The most complicated thing they had to do at the end was to push a green or red button and, in most cases, had been told what button to push. There was nothing more complicated than that. There was a certain amount of whingeing the next day when people had to do other aspects of their job as well. This is just the every day and every night experience-----