Results 901-920 of 1,253 for speaker:John Crown
- Seanad: Electoral (Amendment) (No. 4) Bill 2014: Second Stage (17 Jul 2014)
John Crown: I was not. My father had not left Leitrim at that stage to go to New York.
- Seanad: Electoral (Amendment) (No. 4) Bill 2014: Second Stage (17 Jul 2014)
John Crown: I do not believe my vote or that of anybody else is blocking the election. The people who are blocking it are those who have not appointed a clerk to the Dáil for the past year.
- Seanad: Electoral (Amendment) (No. 4) Bill 2014: Second Stage (17 Jul 2014)
John Crown: This could be fixed on picking up the telephone. No disrespect whatsoever to the office of the Clerk of the Dáil but I strongly suspect the problem has not been finding a suitably qualified person. I do not believe it is a case of finding someone uniquely qualified. It is impossible to escape two conclusions, one being that the problem has not been fixed because of a manifestation of...
- Seanad: Electoral (Amendment) (No. 4) Bill 2014: Second Stage (17 Jul 2014)
John Crown: The entire other side voted in the wrong space.
- Seanad: Order of Business (17 Sep 2014)
John Crown: It is good to be back. Clearly, the most important, and from the point of view of the average citizen of the country the most far-reaching, development in politics and public governance over the summer was the announcement that the long-promised cup of health service reform has been dashed from the lips of people campaigning for this reform for many years. I have been campaigning for health...
- Seanad: Order of Business (17 Sep 2014)
John Crown: A lot happened to me over the summer; I forget what the bell means.
- Seanad: Order of Business (17 Sep 2014)
John Crown: I am more used to taking orders now. When a Government stuffs a letter into every post box in a constituency stating that a hospital service will not be closed but then goes ahead and does it within the first six months of assuming office, and when it comes in here and states that one of the five key points of its policy is that it will bring in universal health insurance and then starts...
- Seanad: Order of Business (17 Sep 2014)
John Crown: To show my docile temperament I will sit down but I propose an amendment to the Order of Business that the Minister for Health, Deputy Varadkar, would come into the House today to outline, first, the sequence of events in the Department which led to the decision being made that this was not feasible in the short term or at all and, second, his intentions to introduce it.
- Seanad: Order of Business (17 Sep 2014)
John Crown: On a point of information, a more traditional wedding present would also be welcome, but that is fine.
- Seanad: Order of Business (17 Sep 2014)
John Crown: Yes.
- Seanad: Order of Business (18 Sep 2014)
John Crown: I am sorry to interrupt the combined history lesson and party political broadcast we have seen this morning. I will make a happy announcement to the House. In San Francisco two days ago, Dr. Pierre Thirion, acting on behalf of the Ireland Co-operative Clinical Oncology Research Group, presented a paper selected for the very top presentation at the American Society for Radiation Oncology,...
- Seanad: Education (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2014: Second Stage (23 Sep 2014)
John Crown: I will shamelessly take the opportunity of having the Minister held captive in the Chamber to make a cri de coeurto her in her new capacity as Minister for Education and Skills to seriously examine the structure and number of medical schools in the Republic. To give some background information, in recent years the medical profession in Ireland has done a good job in persuading the rest of...
- Seanad: Appointments to Board of Irish Museum of Modern Art: Statements (23 Sep 2014)
John Crown: I cancelled a clinic this evening because of this debate. I asked people to reschedule out of respect for my responsibility to our democracy. This is unconscionable.
- Seanad: Appointments to Board of Irish Museum of Modern Art: Statements (23 Sep 2014)
John Crown: It is the Cathaoirleach's decision.
- Seanad: Order of Business - Order of Business (24 Sep 2014)
John Crown: The longer one is in a place such as this, the more grounds one has for cynicism and despondency. As somebody who has consistently for 20 years espoused fundamental reform of our health system, who is prepared to blame successive health Ministers from the Labour Party, Fianna Fáil, the Progressive Democrats and Fine Gael for the problems in our health system, who endorsed the candidacy...
- Seanad: Order of Business - Order of Business (24 Sep 2014)
John Crown: Can I ask the Leader-----
- Seanad: Order of Business - Order of Business (24 Sep 2014)
John Crown: May I ask the Leader to take a question?
- Seanad: Order of Business - Order of Business (24 Sep 2014)
John Crown: It is not a Standing Order. I cannot quote a Standing Order for a point of order, but there is a point of information. I would like to know whether the Leader-----
- Seanad: Order of Business - Order of Business (24 Sep 2014)
John Crown: For the record, my question remains unanswered.
- Seanad: Order of Business - Order of Business (24 Sep 2014)
John Crown: Yes.