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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Heads of Protection of Life during Pregnancy Bill 2013: Public Hearings (Resumed) (21 May 2013)

John Crown: I am sorry but this terminology is a fact.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Heads of Protection of Life during Pregnancy Bill 2013: Public Hearings (Resumed) (21 May 2013)

John Crown: If Dr. Cahill has qualifications to speak about psychiatry, I will be delighted to be corrected.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Heads of Protection of Life during Pregnancy Bill 2013: Public Hearings (Resumed) (21 May 2013)

John Crown: I do understand that but her-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Heads of Protection of Life during Pregnancy Bill 2013: Public Hearings (Resumed) (21 May 2013)

John Crown: It is singularly disingenuous to state that there has been a considered, unanimous body of opinion on the basis of evidence-based medicine, which tells us that suicidality will never be an issue which could be addressed by termination of a pregnancy. There has been a spectrum of opinions. I live by consensus medical opinions and the development of evidence-based medical guidelines, and we...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Heads of Protection of Life during Pregnancy Bill 2013: Public Hearings (Resumed) (21 May 2013)

John Crown: I welcome the Minister of State, Deputy Alex White. I also pay tribute to your job, Chairman. There is a phrase in academic medicine that sometimes trying to chair meetings of academic doctors is like herding cats. The hearings were a bit like trying to herd cats when they had been taking crystal meth and possibly had rabies.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Heads of Protection of Life during Pregnancy Bill 2013: Public Hearings (Resumed) (21 May 2013)

John Crown: I am very sorry. I regret any offence to the cat community for the latter remark of drawing an analogy between cats and Irish parliamentarians. There can truly be few situations where the will of the people and the voice of the Constitution have spoken as clearly as they have on the narrowly defined necessity for abortion in very narrow circumstances, ones which entirely relate to the life...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Heads of Protection of Life during Pregnancy Bill 2013: Public Hearings (Resumed) (21 May 2013)

John Crown: I am very sorry. I will finish on this point. It is regrettable that the Minister, the CEO and the chief medical officer have not been able to be present for the three days of hearings. They were present for the first session. The Minister left and we were under the impression that the CEO and the CMO of the Department of Health would be present, but they were not. I cancelled an...

Seanad: Diesel Laundering: Statements (23 May 2013)

John Crown: I will probably be ruled out of order and asked to sit down because I will stray from the issue. The issue before us today relates to laundering and smuggling. A much more important issue relating to smuggling was apparently discussed at a meeting of three of our senior Ministers, including the Taoiseach, on 7 May with three representatives of the tobacco industry. The story came out in...

Seanad: Diesel Laundering: Statements (23 May 2013)

John Crown: It is clearly inappropriate and we will need explanations in coming days as to how this was allowed to happen.

Seanad: Diesel Laundering: Statements (23 May 2013)

John Crown: The Minister of State should see the frenzy when it happens.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Update on Health Affairs: Discussion with Minister for Health and HSE (23 May 2013)

John Crown: I am going to depart from my prepared questions in order to ask the Minister to clarify something. Thankfully, I have had an hour and a half to calm down about this matter. It is reported in today's edition of The Irish Times that on 7 May the Taoiseach, together with the Ministers for Finance and Justice and Equality, Deputies Michael Noonan and Alan Shatter, held a meeting with...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Update on Health Affairs: Discussion with Minister for Health and HSE (23 May 2013)

John Crown: I understand the Minister may not have been briefed on this breaking development. However, he will be in a position to indicate whether he is aware that the meeting in question took place and whether he advised his political colleagues not to proceed with it. The meeting in question may be in breach of the 2004 directive regarding transparency in lobbying by the tobacco industry....

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Update on Health Affairs: Discussion with Minister for Health and HSE (23 May 2013)

John Crown: We did not discuss what took place at the meeting held on 7 May.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Update on Health Affairs: Discussion with Minister for Health and HSE (23 May 2013)

John Crown: That is fair enough. I will return to my prepared questions. I am tremendously concerned about developments in the matter of oversight of ethical committees. For reasons I do not have time to discuss today, I have had a long involvement in this area and encountered the extraordinary dysfunction and pathology of the way these committees worked in the past. In some cases they were under...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Update on Health Affairs: Discussion with Minister for Health and HSE (23 May 2013)

John Crown: I do not think was HIQA.

Seanad: Order of Business (13 Jun 2013)

John Crown: We will, in the coming weeks, be celebrating the 50th anniversary of President Kennedy's visit to Ireland. Also coming up soon is the 53rd anniversary of the speech President Kennedy made to the Greater Houston Ministerial Association when he was running for the presidency of the United States. He made his speech in September 1960, two months before the election and I wish to quote briefly...

Seanad: Hospital Services: Statements (13 Jun 2013)

John Crown: I will take a moment to compliment the Minister on the good work he is doing on the Protection of Life during Pregnancy Bill. It has not been an easy passage but the Minister has addressed it while others have neglected it. When the story of these times is told, people will recognise that he has taken a very wise and responsible course. The hospital groups issue is being discussed today and...

Seanad: Hospital Services: Statements (13 Jun 2013)

John Crown: On a point of information, I am staying.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Tackling Childhood Obesity: Discussion (Resumed) (13 Jun 2013)

John Crown: I apologise to Dr. Murphy if I sound reduplicative, but the point she made was so important that it needs to be emphasised. Perhaps some of our colleagues who do not work in the health service might have missed the nuance of it. There is no statutory funding available for the provision of the obesity service at Temple Street hospital. It was set up completely through voluntary fundraising...

Seanad: Order of Business (18 Jun 2013)

John Crown: I have an urgent request for the Leader to bring to the attention of the Minister for Health something that has been bubbling under the radar for several weeks, the uneven access to cancer treatments for patients with private health insurance, depending on which company they are with. This causes spin-off problems for the public health service because patients who require particular...