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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Neurological Health Issues: Discussion (11 Feb 2014)

John Crown: I apologise. I was aware of that.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Neurological Health Issues: Discussion (11 Feb 2014)

John Crown: Could the witnesses respond to my concerns about acute neurosurgical emergency treatment and whether we are doing it correctly?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Neurological Health Issues: Discussion (11 Feb 2014)

John Crown: We need to hold a special session to debate neurosurgical and neurotrauma services.

Seanad: Political Reform: Motion (12 Feb 2014)

John Crown: I thank Senator Cullinane for sharing time. This afternoon's proceedings, including the Government's amendment to the substantive motion, constitute a powerful argument in favour of emigration. This country desperately needs political reform. The disaster we faced over the last five years was not primarily due to bankers, builders or bureaucrats. Bankers and builders acted understandably,...

Seanad: Political Reform: Motion (12 Feb 2014)

John Crown: I will gladly yield to my colleague and commend him on his introduction of the motion.

Seanad: Order of Business (19 Feb 2014)

John Crown: I wish to seek clarification from the Government side with regard to an issue relating to the Order of Business for the next week or so. Last week we were promised that Report Stage of the Protection of Children's Health from Tobacco Smoke would be taken in the House. When I withdrew my amendment to last Tuesday's Order of Business, it was on the basis that Report Stage of the legislation...

Seanad: Order of Business (19 Feb 2014)

John Crown: Yes, I accept the point from my learned colleague. This gagging clause should be withdrawn.

Seanad: Order of Business (19 Feb 2014)

John Crown: The only people who can damage the name of any public body are those who work for such a body. When this matter is seen in the context of the other issued I have raised in recent weeks regarding a respected medical journalist who wrote an article in which he made the same criticisms which have continually made during the past year about the current policy on discretionary and...

Seanad: Order of Business (19 Feb 2014)

John Crown: Will the Deputy Leader accept a point of information?

Seanad: Order of Business (19 Feb 2014)

John Crown: I am asking the Deputy Leader, when it is not yet set in stone, to bring it to their attention because we have grave reservations about it but it will be very hard to-----

Seanad: Mental Health Services Provision: Motion (19 Feb 2014)

John Crown: I thank Senator Mullen, who has graciously shared his time. I am not an instinctive "save our hospital" type. I understand that, sometimes, hospitals need to be closed and units rationalised. Nor am I anti-Roscommon. It is a matter of public record that I was staunch in my defence of an unfair closure of the emergency services in Roscommon in the face of data that were shown to be clearly...

Seanad: Order of Business (20 Feb 2014)

John Crown: I am troubled by certain aspects of the emerging story of the intersection between the legislative branch that oversees the Garda and the various bodies that exist to ensure complaints from within and without the Garda can be handled and by the adequacy of the protection that the latter provide for whistleblowers. With this in mind, I will ask a question of the Deputy Leader, herself a...

Seanad: Order of Business (20 Feb 2014)

John Crown: I will not go over old ground, but as someone who once found himself facing some very unusual reactions from public bodies in this country when I blew a whistle on a problem, I do not believe that the culture of the public service collectively has yet managed to transcend corporatism and self-loyalty and to understand that it works for the people. If individuals blow whistles about problems,...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Ambulance Response Times: Discussion (25 Feb 2014)

John Crown: I also wish to welcome our guests. As somebody who has been a consumer of the ambulance service on the medical side for a long time, I would like to ask the witnesses to address two specific operational questions, one of which is Dublin specific. The situation is common in Dublin whereby the emergency ambulance will be called to somebody who has got an existing relationship with a hospital...

Seanad: Order of Business (27 Feb 2014)

John Crown: Two years ago, in conjunction with Senators Daly and van Turnhout, I proposed legislation to ban smoking in cars where children are present. The Bill has passed a number of stages and we should be given a definite date for the debate on Report Stage. I received correspondence from one of the officials involved telling us that the various Departments' Report Stage amendments would be ready...

Seanad: Order of Business (4 Mar 2014)

John Crown: I ask the Leaders to draw the attention of the Minister to the state of our obstetric services and the staffing levels in them and possibly to arrange a debate. The tragic loss of the parents in Portlaoise deserves our sympathy. As a parent, I cannot feel how awful it must be to lose a child and particularly to lose a child in the circumstances outlined. I am very troubled by one of the...

Seanad: Order of Business (4 Mar 2014)

John Crown: How can communications problems be labelled as a major issue, as it is in the report, without acknowledging that a rapidly rotating cohort of agency temporary staff fosters the very same problems of communications?

Seanad: Order of Business (4 Mar 2014)

John Crown: I am looking for a debate. One and a half years after the tragic events in Galway, the tragedy that lady and her family went through and after our handwringing and agonising last year about the Protection of Life During Pregnancy Bill, has one extra penny been invested in obstetric services and maternity services? The answer is "No".

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Report on Perinatal Deaths at Midland Regional Hospital: Discussion (6 Mar 2014)

John Crown: I welcome our guests and extend sympathy to those who had tragedies visited on their families in Portlaoise. I will try to act in a fashion becoming of the Parliament but I must be harsh. All I can say is this room reeks of whitewash, and I am sorry this report does not address core issues. I mean no personal disrespect to anybody but people employed in the Department and HSE have grown up...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Report on Perinatal Deaths at Midland Regional Hospital: Discussion (6 Mar 2014)

John Crown: My key questions were not answered.