John Crown (Independent) | Oireachtas source

I am very sorry I was not able to get here earlier but I had complex commitments today and I intended no disrespect to any of the witness by not hearing their testimony.

As I said last week, I really believe practising medicine in Ireland is nearly uniquely dangerous. A doctor in Ireland has one of the highest chances of finding himself or herself on the receiving end of a lawsuit of any country in the world. Primarily, this is not the fault of lawyers but of the health system. I am afraid all the craw thumping by the full-time politicians about how much they really want to fix the medical problems here rings hollow with me when they have had ample opportunity to do so. Certainly over the 22 years that I have been working in this country, no one has ever shown the slightest interest in actually trying to fix the health system. We have a health system which is right at the bottom of the charts-----