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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Childhood Obesity: Discussion (Resumed) (11 Oct 2012)

John Crown: Do any of the witnesses believe that, historically, people's concern about eating disorders in young people, especially young girls, made them shy away from discussing and tackling weight? There was a spurious psychological movement which said that we must not let children worry about their weight or we might feed eating disorders. Second, in terms of activity, would it not be simple to...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Childhood Obesity: Discussion (Resumed) (11 Oct 2012)

John Crown: If I sent somebody to Dr. O'Shea tomorrow who was a potential candidate for bariatric surgery and they ended up needing the surgery, how long does he estimate it would take him or her to get as far as an operating table?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Childhood Obesity: Discussion (Resumed) (11 Oct 2012)

John Crown: What entity is telling Dr. O'Shea the waiting list may not be real?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Childhood Obesity: Discussion (Resumed) (11 Oct 2012)

John Crown: This is very important. Does Dr. O'Shea have a document that asks if the waiting list exists? If he does, it should be in the public domain. This is very important.

Seanad: Alcohol Consumption: Statements (17 Oct 2012)

John Crown: I welcome the Minister of State. I look forward to working with him in the years to come. I have a particular interest in health issues. I do not think the Government's thinking, as set out in its strategy, goes far enough. It is time for a little radicalism in its approach. Like most people in this Chamber, I am speaking with the internal conflict of someone who culturally grandfathered...

Seanad: Alcohol Consumption: Statements (17 Oct 2012)

John Crown: I must correct Senator Barrett, who is normally very numerate and statistically astute. He is incorrect in this regard. The reality is that Ireland is placed approximately third in the global league table for the documented consumption of raw alcohol, as measured in terms of litres consumed per head of population. The figures referred to by Senator Barrett related to litres of alcoholic...

Seanad: Alcohol Consumption: Statements (Resumed) (17 Oct 2012)

John Crown: Excuse me, will the Minister of State reply today or in the next session?

Seanad: Mortgage Credit (Loans and Bonds) Bill 2012: Second Stage (17 Oct 2012)

John Crown: This is a brief interjection. I call on the Minister of State to ask the Minister for Finance if he will consider some fundamental changes in the way we do our financial business with regard to the question of mortgage debt and bank sustainability. This is a time of national emergency. Let us reflect on when many people took the advice of bankers. They were a group the people in Ireland...

Seanad: Junior Certificate Reform and the Literacy and Numeracy Strategy: Statements (23 Oct 2012)

John Crown: I join with colleagues in welcoming the Minister to the House. There are many nice aspects to being in Seanad Éireann, but one of the nicer ones is that no one is ever in the press gallery and few are in the public Gallery. It is like having a private audience with the Minister. He must forgive me if I take this opportunity to try to earwig him regarding a matter that is relevant to the...

Seanad: Junior Certificate Reform and the Literacy and Numeracy Strategy: Statements (23 Oct 2012)

John Crown: The Minister should examine the entire issue and the nuance of their statement. They stated that the data to date had not given a particular reason to be worried about an earthquake. This was not unreasonable. There are no data that can be used to predict earthquakes. We live in a world in which nearly half of the citizens of the most powerful country with the largest economy believe that...

Seanad: Order of Business (24 Oct 2012)

John Crown: I preface a request to invite the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade to the House with a brief statement. Yesterday was the 37th anniversary of the murder of Gordon Hamilton Fairley, the only medical doctor to die in the Northern Ireland Troubles. He was a medical oncologist and leader of the cancer medicine movement in the UK. He was walking down a street in London when...

Seanad: Health Service Executive (Governance) Bill 2012: Report and Final Stages (24 Oct 2012)

John Crown: I second the amendment. I agree completely with the sentiments expressed by Senator Barrett. The HSE is a failed experiment. The notion of having a single, nationally commanded and controlled managerialist bureaucracy micro-managing every aspect of our hospitals and other parts of health system has failed. We need to hasten the model's extinction. Many people, on hearing this argument,...

Seanad: Health Service Executive (Governance) Bill 2012: Report and Final Stages (24 Oct 2012)

John Crown: I second Senator Barrett's amendment. In an organisation whose central flaw is generally recognised as having deliberately or inadvertently created a barrier between those who run the health service and those who are elected to oversee the public purse and public services, it does not seem to make sense to allow any additional barriers during what one hopes will be the short term of the...

Seanad: Health Service Executive (Governance) Bill 2012: Report and Final Stages (24 Oct 2012)

John Crown: I second the amendment.

Seanad: Health Service Executive (Governance) Bill 2012: Report and Final Stages (24 Oct 2012)

John Crown: I second the amendment.

Seanad: Adjournment Matters: Garda Vetting (24 Oct 2012)

John Crown: I second Senator Barrett's amendment. In an organisation whose central flaw is generally recognised as having deliberately or inadvertently created a barrier between those who run the health service and those who are elected to oversee the public purse and public services, it does not seem to make sense to allow any additional barriers during what one hopes will be the short term of the...

Seanad: Adjournment Matters: Garda Vetting (24 Oct 2012)

John Crown: I second the amendment.

Seanad: Adjournment Matters: Garda Vetting (24 Oct 2012)

John Crown: I second the amendment.

Seanad: Ireland's Presidency of the Council of the European Union: Statements (25 Oct 2012)

John Crown: I will mention some technical issues that I hope we will have the chance to address and perhaps direct some oversight on during the Irish Presidency. There is a data protection directive coming from Europe and I will attend discussions in Brussels next week about possible research implications. I will mark the card as there are serious concerns it could affect certain types of cancer...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Health Insurance Sector: Discussion (25 Oct 2012)

John Crown: I add my words of welcome. For the benefit of other members of the committee, the debate on the introduction of universal health insurance is frequently misunderstood. People keep referring to the Dutch model. What emerged from the synthesised programme for Government for the two coalition parties would more correctly be called the Deutsch model rather than the Dutch model. It involves a...