Results 341-360 of 1,253 for speaker:John Crown

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Implementation of Government Decision Following Expert Group Report into Matters Relating to A, B and C v. Ireland (8 Jan 2013)

John Crown: I respect her opinion on matters related to psychiatry, but she has strayed outside that area of competence to comment on a broader social policy which is more relevant to her other affiliation.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Implementation of Government Decision Following Expert Group Report into Matters Relating to A, B and C v. Ireland (8 Jan 2013)

John Crown: I have a series of short questions for Professor Greene, for the benefit of my colleagues who do not have a background in interpretation of medical and epidemiological statistics. Will he elucidate the difficulties which occur in attempting to draw conclusions statistically when one is dealing with such small numbers? Several statements have appeared in the lay media suggesting that one...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Implementation of Government Decision Following Expert Group Report into Matters Relating to A, B and C v. Ireland (8 Jan 2013)

John Crown: I will try not to stray into other areas but the association does provide post-abortion counselling services. Will the witnesses clarify how in the event of a legal change it would police the medical veracity of what is said to clients attending their clinics?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Implementation of Government Decision Following Expert Group Report into Matters Relating to A, B and C v. Ireland (9 Jan 2013)

John Crown: I thank the witnesses for coming in. These have been clear and informative presentations. There are two related issues which cannot be seen outside the context our health service, namely, the necessity for the provision of short-cutting the approval process for a termination when an emergency arises and the question of conscientious objection. Both issues appear to presuppose the notion...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Implementation of Government Decision Following Expert Group Report into Matters Relating to A, B and C v. Ireland (9 Jan 2013)

John Crown: I request that we go into private session briefly.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Implementation of Government Decision Following Expert Group Report into Matters Relating to A, B and C v. Ireland (9 Jan 2013)

John Crown: I am making a request and it is in the Chairman's gift to grant it.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Implementation of Government Decision Following Expert Group Report into Matters Relating to A, B and C v. Ireland (9 Jan 2013)

John Crown: The Irish Council for Civil Liberties should understand that I come from this with no particular ideological baggage. My own position is that an early embryo does not have the rights of a person and that many foetuses that are legally aborted in otherwise civilised countries, and in the United Kingdom, are, in fact, humans who are being deprived of their right to personhood, a process which,...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Implementation of Government Decision Following Expert Group Report into Matters Relating to A, B and C v. Ireland (9 Jan 2013)

John Crown: I am delighted to have the honour of sharing this Chamber today with two such distinguished people whose very sincerely beliefs I respect. I have a few questions for Professor Binchy. The five minute walk he referred to with respect to the National Maternity Hospital was taken yesterday in the opposite direction by people who came here and told us what they wanted at the end of that walk:...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Implementation of Government Decision Following Expert Group Report into Matters Relating to A, B and C v. Ireland (9 Jan 2013)

John Crown: To put the record straight, it was 30 seconds of effort.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Implementation of Government Decision Following Expert Group Report into Matters Relating to A, B and C v. Ireland (9 Jan 2013)

John Crown: It has been submitted. The death certificate has not been issued in this case yet.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Implementation of Government Decision Following Expert Group Report into Matters Relating to A, B and C v. Ireland (10 Jan 2013)

John Crown: I beg the indulgence of the visitors, and I will speak while sitting as I am a little too tall for the microphone. I have a number of rather focused questions and wish to direct them to Dr. Jones and Father Bartlett. We do not have exact figures, but it appears approximately 30 terminations of pregnancy are conducted annually in Ireland for reasons of threat to the life of the mother. It...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Implementation of Government Decision Following Expert Group Report into Matters Relating to A, B and C v. Ireland (10 Jan 2013)

John Crown: I thank our guests. I will repeat my question of this morning. When we questioned our colleagues from the maternity hospitals, it appeared that there are probably 30 abortions per year at present carried out where there are unambiguous grounds based on a risk to the life, rather than the health, of the mother. The consensus among our colleagues was that no cases have been missed. They...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Independent Study into Ward Staffing Levels: Discussion with INMO (24 Jan 2013)

John Crown: I am off sugar.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Independent Study into Ward Staffing Levels: Discussion with INMO (24 Jan 2013)

John Crown: I wish to raise a matter in private session.

Seanad: Order of Business (6 Feb 2013)

John Crown: Members of this and the other House have raised issues concerning the recently issued report on the Magdalen laundries. I ask the Leader to try to obtain for me the answer to some very specific questions. I am interested in the financial investigation into the various organisations and the laundries. I refer, in particular, to the evidence to support the assertion that the laundries were...

Seanad: Order of Business (6 Feb 2013)

John Crown: Will the Leader seek clarification from the Minister for Justice and Equality on the procedure involved in choosing the members of the committee? Was there any expert accounting forensic analysis available to the committee or did it simply accept what the orders' accountants gave them at face value?

Seanad: Irish Bank Resolution Corporation Bill 2013: Second Stage (6 Feb 2013)

John Crown: All I can say at this hour of the morning is that I hope that poisoned chalice everybody refers to is full of Red Bull. Otherwise, we will have some difficulty getting through the next hour or so. There have been frequent references to how inadvisable it is to have people making critical decisions in the middle of the night. For the record, our junior doctors are one group of people in this...

Seanad: Irish Bank Resolution Corporation Bill 2013: Second Stage (6 Feb 2013)

John Crown: No, we are dealing with another kind of bull. As a doctor, I have patients who will get second opinions. In general, the opinions will point in roughly the same direction. There will be nuanced differences. The extraordinary thing about the world in which I have been living for the last year and a half and in dealing with economists, planners and so forth is the unbelievably, widely...

Seanad: Industrial Development (Science Foundation Ireland) (Amendment) Bill 2012: Second Stage (7 Feb 2013)

John Crown: I must declare an interest at the outset. While I derive no income or funds from SFI, I am the leader of a consortium funded by SFI, which will be in receipt of approximately ¤7.5 million worth of research funds over a five-year period. This has enabled us to build a unique nationwide consortium of cancer researchers working together to try to deal with the inconsistencies of a country...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Lung Health Promotion: Discussion with Irish Lung Health Alliance (7 Feb 2013)

John Crown: I thank my colleagues and sundry other allies for attending this meeting. It was great to hear their presentations. It is recognised there are disparities in smoking across the socio-educational spectrum. Does Dr. Edward McKone believe there are other factors which determine the disparity of the incidence of lung disease across social groups? How do we stack up in international...