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

John Crown: Through the Chair, key questions of mine were not answered.

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

John Crown: I yield to Senator Burke.

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

John Crown: Were the foreign body episodes laid at the hands of the consultants, nurses or NCHDs? What recruitment process was used to recruit the junior doctors who were in these unrecognised non-training positions, whose very existence I would question?

Seanad: General Scheme of the Seanad Electoral (University Members) (Amendment) Bill 2014: Statements (11 Mar 2014)

John Crown: I propose to share time with Senator Quinn. The question before the Government of our Republic with respect to this Bill is a very simple one: does it believe in democracy or does it not? A second question is whether all citizens of our Republic and those qualified to vote have equal rights in selecting their public representatives, or whether some have more rights than others. In...

Seanad: Order of Business (26 Mar 2014)

John Crown: I extend my sympathies to the family of Deputy Nicky McFadden. The disease from which she suffered is an extraordinarily cruel one and she bore it with great bravery. It was particularly inspiring that she went public and used the knowledge of her illness in an attempt to raise much needed research funds for the condition. Without wishing to politicise the tragedy, it would be remiss of...

Seanad: Order of Business (26 Mar 2014)

John Crown: It has been documented repeatedly in the past year by professional bodies and patient representative groups that there have been increased challenges in obtaining medical cards when these dread diseases occur. We all understand the economic context in which we are operating, but this is an issue that should be reviewed. I am grateful to the Leader for his help at every stage in our efforts...

Seanad: Adjournment Matters: Health Professions Admission Test Administration (26 Mar 2014)

John Crown: I am very grateful to the Cathaoirleach for giving me a small amount of time. I did not realise that this item was on the agenda and I wanted to take advantage of the Minister of State's presence to state that this is an area about which I have had some concerns. When the examination was first introduced, there were a number of high-profile cases of youngsters in this country who had full...

Seanad: Order of Business (1 Apr 2014)

John Crown: I ask the Leader to bring to the attention of the Minister for Health the fact that there are now 32,000 children on waiting lists for hearing assessments. Some 16,000 are waiting for a first assessment and a further 16,000 are waiting for treatment, having been assessed. A substantial number are waiting for more than one or two years. There is a geographical discrepancy, but the...

Seanad: Order of Business (1 Apr 2014)

John Crown: I am formally asking the Leader to change tomorrow's Order of Business and not discuss the Bill tomorrow.

Seanad: Higher Education and Research (Consolidation and Improvement) Bill 2014: Second Stage (2 Apr 2014)

John Crown: I am strongly supportive of Senator Barrett's Bill. The presence of people like Senator Barrett in these Houses should be a lesson to us all. It says something about the way politics in general esteems expertise and the way our society esteems expertise that there have been so few people with his qualifications in positions of political authority in a country that has been undone by a lack...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Quarterly Update on Health Issues: Minister for Health (3 Apr 2014)

John Crown: Go raibh maith agat. I am speaking slightly out of turn because I misunderstood the procedure for dealing with the questions this morning. However, I shall make a few very general points. I welcome the Minister's unveiling of the White Paper on universal health insurance. I look forward to studying it, collaborating with him and working on it in the years to come. It is something that I...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Quarterly Update on Health Issues: Minister for Health (3 Apr 2014)

John Crown: I am not attacking our medical schools.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Quarterly Update on Health Issues: Minister for Health (3 Apr 2014)

John Crown: Am I, as a public representative who was elected by a university group, one of whose constituent colleges I am making an editorial comment about, to be prevented from bringing to the committee any expertise and experience I have over 20 years because of some highly theoretical argument that some legal department or PR department in a medical school some place might have an objection to it?...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Quarterly Update on Health Issues: Minister for Health (3 Apr 2014)

John Crown: On the specific questions I raised today, I do not believe the specific question about the gagging clause in the GP contract has been as yet addressed in the written answer I have been given nor has the onerous increase in the bureaucratic demands which will be made on GPs in the new under six GP contract. Similarly, I would like to get a quick opinion as to why we do not have electronic...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Quarterly Update on Health Issues: Minister for Health (3 Apr 2014)

John Crown: The information Mr. O'Brien has given is very helpful and I thank him very much for it. I seek clarification. Does he regard the primary problem not as the actions of the doctors but perhaps - I am trying to think of the most discreet and diplomatic way of putting this - the board being a little bit economical with some of the facts?

Seanad: Order of Business (16 Apr 2014)

John Crown: I propose an amendment to the Order of Business that the Minister of State at the Department of the Environment, Community and Local Government, Deputy Fergus O'Dowd, come to the House to clarify the position on water tax. I am not naive; water is not free and, ultimately, comes from nature. The provision of infrastructure to deliver it safely to people's houses incurs a cost and society...

Seanad: Order of Business (16 Apr 2014)

John Crown: Yes.

Seanad: End-of-Life Care and Bereavement: Motion (16 Apr 2014)

John Crown: I do not normally do this, but I will read a brief article which was written a few years ago by Dr. Ken Murray, an American general practitioner. I found it extraordinarily informative and moving. It is one everybody looking at changing policy on end-of-life care should read. He wrote:It's not a frequent topic of discussion, but doctors die, too. And they don't die like the rest of us....

Seanad: Commission of Investigation (Certain Matters relative to An Garda Síochána and other persons) Order 2014: Motion (16 Apr 2014)

John Crown: I warmly welcome the Taoiseach to the House. The assistant commissioner, John O'Mahoney, reassured us there is no question of what has been described as a culture of non-enforcement of penalties being tolerated by the Garda Síochána but we must wonder how it comes to pass that there are now three separate inquiries into the activities of gardaí. How has it come to this? I...

Seanad: Protection of Children's Health from Tobacco Smoke Bill 2012: Report and Final Stages (17 Apr 2014)

John Crown: I thank An tAire and his staff for the effort that has gone into getting these Report Stage amendments which my co-sponsors, Senators van Turnhout and Daly, and I accept. We wish to see the Bill get through as quickly as possible and we understand the reasons for the fundamental change in the nature of the Bill for clarity's sake. The reason we did it this way was that we thought, perhaps...