Results 681-700 of 1,253 for speaker:John Crown
- Seanad: Order of Business (22 Jan 2014)
John Crown: I propose an amendment to the Order of Business to ask the Minister for Health to attend the House today to address the issues that arose with respect to the letter by the Irish emergency medicine trainees that courageously highlighted some glaring deficiencies and some misperceptions that are being advanced, one hopes inaccurately, by the authorities with respect to the number of patients on...
- Seanad: Order of Business (22 Jan 2014)
John Crown: I am not attacking him. He has asked me to raise this matter.
- Seanad: Order of Business (22 Jan 2014)
John Crown: He has asked me to raise this.
- Seanad: Order of Business (22 Jan 2014)
John Crown: He has asked me to bring up the issue. I will not be criticising anybody by name. I am supporting Dr. Hanley who pointed out that when he wrote an article in which he bluntly stated that he believed the HSE was terrifying people with the threat of the denial of their medical cards, he received a letter from a member of the communications staff of the HSE accusing him of defaming the HSE and...
- Seanad: Order of Business (22 Jan 2014)
John Crown: Yes.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Public Health (Standardised Packaging of Tobacco) Bill 2013: Discussion (23 Jan 2014)
John Crown: I welcome my Garda colleagues. I am sorry if I am being inappropriate but I would like to express my sympathy to them as it is close to the anniversary of the loss of one of their colleagues in the line of duty last year. I know it is in everybody's mind today. The situation with respect to tobacco is unprecedented. If this product had been discovered during the 20th century it would...
- Seanad: Health Identifiers Bill 2013: Second Stage (29 Jan 2014)
John Crown: Cuirim fáilte roimh an Aire. I am broadly in support of the idea of enhanced patient identification as a means of improving safety. There is no doubt that when one has as internally discordant set of health services as we have in this country that it is essential that we think of better ways of managing medical records and facilitating appropriate transferral of sensitive information....
- Seanad: Seanad Reform: Motion (29 Jan 2014)
John Crown: I second the motion. I welcome the Minister of State, Deputy Kehoe, to the House. It is in truth a given that there is a prevalent cynicism about democracy and an increasing scepticism about its potential for reform and self improvement. Many citizens are totally alienated from the democratic process, believing that a self-perpetuating system populated by self-serving people neither...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Public Health (Standardised Packaging of Tobacco) Bill 2013: Discussion (Resumed) (30 Jan 2014)
John Crown: I welcome my various colleagues in the anti-smoking struggle here today. This is a slam dunk and everybody who cares about health will support this Bill. We need to get it shepherded through as quickly as we can. All the arguments about smuggling and illegality are entirely bogus. I believe in my heart, and I believe the evidence is clear, that the tobacco industry directly and indirectly...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Public Health (Standardised Packaging of Tobacco) Bill 2013: Discussion (Resumed) (30 Jan 2014)
John Crown: It could be fixed with about three hours of legal time.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Public Health (Standardised Packaging of Tobacco) Bill 2013: Discussion (Resumed) (30 Jan 2014)
John Crown: I have no comment to make at the moment.
- Seanad: Order of Business (5 Feb 2014)
John Crown: I raised an issue last week which was not exactly dealt with. Given the torrent of issues that arose, it was one that was somehow skipped over but I would like to remind the Leader of it. A medical journalist and practitioner contacted me to state that following a piece he had written in a national newspaper in which he was, as are many people - I understand there are two sides to the...
- Seanad: Order of Business (5 Feb 2014)
John Crown: Hear, hear.
- Seanad: Order of Business (5 Feb 2014)
John Crown: Will the Leader take the point of information please? It was not a public relations company, it was a public relations employed spokesman of the HSE.
- Seanad: Order of Business (5 Feb 2014)
John Crown: Yes.
- Seanad: Order of Business (11 Feb 2014)
John Crown: I propose an amendment to the Order of Business to request one of the health Ministers to come into the House today to comment on the discrepancy in the way health-related legislation is dealt with across the two sovereign jurisdictions on either side of the Irish Sea. Last night the British House of Commons passed an amendment to a Bill to ban smoking in cars when children are present....
- Seanad: Order of Business (11 Feb 2014)
John Crown: I withdraw the amendment.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Neurological Health Issues: Discussion (11 Feb 2014)
John Crown: Can it be said under the privilege that I have, that---
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Neurological Health Issues: Discussion (11 Feb 2014)
John Crown: I welcome my professional colleagues, other representatives and Mr. Lawless. I have a number of very focused questions. In common with most parts of the health service, neurological services such as neurosurgery, neurorehabilitation and neuropathology, are grotesquely understaffed by any international comparison. I will ask some specific questions on that. I do not want anybody to think...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Neurological Health Issues: Discussion (11 Feb 2014)
John Crown: Invite him in. I will gladly hold the door open for him. I have no problem. I will buy him a cup of coffee and say it to his face. I have not mentioned him. It is wrong. The backbone of a democracy is a critical press and it should not happen that we cannot criticise public bodies because the public body has a newly-defined reputational right. Can one imagine if somebody was prevented...