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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Acquired Brain Injuries: Discussion (6 Nov 2014)

John Crown: I am very sorry I missed the presentation. I heard a quick report from the staff in my office. I was detained in the hospital this morning. I know the presentation was very moving and wish the family all the best. One of the key issues in addressing head injuries is to have appropriate acute treatment to minimise the medical consequences when they occur. This country is a disaster for...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Deep Brain Stimulation Treatment: Discussion (6 Nov 2014)

John Crown: I welcome our guests. I am sorry I did not hear their presentations. There is a great logic to trying to undertake several initiatives on an all-island basis. I will be a little partisan. I want to ensure we have not been put on too much of a long finger in the South by the authorities in the HSE. I would have guessed from what the deputations have stated that, in truth, the...

Seanad: Order of Business (11 Nov 2014)

John Crown: I ask the Leader to bring to the attention of the Minister for Health, and to consider having a debate on, the promised reform of our health system. It was one of the key planks of Fine Gael and the Labour Party before the last general election and reform would have ended our two-tier health system. Two pieces of evidence illustrate it this week. Data were published over the past 24 hours...

Seanad: Suicide and Mental Health: Statements (11 Nov 2014)

John Crown: I call for a quorum as this is a very important topic.

Seanad: Suicide and Mental Health: Statements (11 Nov 2014)

John Crown: I welcome the Minister of State. I know she takes this problem very seriously and I am grateful to her for giving it such a priority. Earlier, I was going through a mental checklist of people I know who lost their lives, sadly, through self-harm, and I came up with 14 names. These included a few nurses, medical students, doctors and world-famous cancer experts. There were also a couple of...

Seanad: Health (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2014: Committee and Remaining Stages (12 Nov 2014)

John Crown: I move amendment No. 4: In page 24, between lines 10 and 11, to insert the following:“81F.Should any person registered by the Optical Registration Board, in the course of an examination, discover a medical condition that would require medical treatment, or arrive at the suspicion that there exists a medical condition that may require treatment, that person shall—(a) inform the...

Seanad: Health (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2014: Committee and Remaining Stages (12 Nov 2014)

John Crown: I thank the various contributors. I had not realised that so many people in this Chamber were such extraordinary experts in the arcane details of the optical specialties. I say well done all round. Much research has gone into this. I remind the Minister of State of two facts. First, it was the Irish College of Ophthalmologists that approached me. It was medical doctors - the people who...

Seanad: Health (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2014: Committee and Remaining Stages (12 Nov 2014)

John Crown: I will take a question from the Senator.

Seanad: Health (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2014: Committee and Remaining Stages (12 Nov 2014)

John Crown: It in no way limits the scope of anyone's practice because, by definition, if somebody felt it was outside the scope of his or her practice, he or she would not be referring in the first place. I do not get this argument. There is more than a little whiff of turf to this. It is a simple, minimal amendment that enhances patient safety and hurts nobody. I cannot understand why it is being...

Seanad: Health (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2014: Committee and Remaining Stages (12 Nov 2014)

John Crown: The reason we are imposing it at this stage is that the Bill deals with that specialty. I was not in the Oireachtas when the original legislation was introduced. The ophthalmologists brought this to my attention because, as the Minister of State pointed out, there is a unique professional-client among opticians. Interactions with other specialties follow a professional referral. Somebody...

Seanad: Health (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2014: Committee and Remaining Stages (12 Nov 2014)

John Crown: I move amendment No. 5: In page 30, between lines 13 and 14, to insert the following: "41.Subsection (1) of section 18 of the Principal Act is amended by substituting "be set by the Minister" for "be set by the Council".".I welcome the Minister of State and her officials and acknowledge their very active role in the proceedings. There is a tendency for bureaucracies to get bigger, there is a...

Seanad: Health (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2014: Committee and Remaining Stages (12 Nov 2014)

John Crown: I am a democrat at heart.

Seanad: Health (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2014: Committee and Remaining Stages (12 Nov 2014)

John Crown: I am. I would remind the House of those other great examples of modern Irish legislation where similar independence was granted, such as Irish Water. In the spirit of that inspiration I will press the amendment.

Seanad: Health (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2014: Committee and Remaining Stages (12 Nov 2014)

John Crown: I move amendment No. 6: In page 30, between lines 13 and 14, to insert the following:“41. Section 32 of the Principal Act is amended by the substitution of the following for subsections (6) and (7):“(6) If any member of the Council is of the opinion that a registration board has submitted to the Council a draft bye-law that may be likely to result in competition being prevented,...

Seanad: Health (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2014: Committee and Remaining Stages (12 Nov 2014)

John Crown: I would presume that the Competition Authority, like all other branches of our extraordinarily efficient public service, would deal with any such query rapidly and that there would not be any delay in addressing a legitimate query with the regard to the possibility of the operation of a closed shop.

Seanad: Health (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2014: Committee and Remaining Stages (12 Nov 2014)

John Crown: One would presume that the absence of an opinion implies the absence of a judgment that a provision is anti-competitive.

Seanad: Seanad Bill 2013: Committee Stage (12 Nov 2014)

John Crown: I am stunned at the effrontery of the Government side in trying to be so utterly obstructionist about every aspect of this Bill. Those Members were elected on the promise of political reform but have split themselves asunder on the issue of abolishing the Seanad. Most Government Senators were either lukewarm in their support for abolition or, in many cases, frankly opposed their own...

Seanad: Seanad Bill 2013: Committee Stage (12 Nov 2014)

John Crown: What could be simpler? The people said "No" to abolishing the Seanad. We are all democrats and we believe that we should have a popularly, generally enfranchised second Chamber, elected in a different fashion from the first Chamber, so that we have people representing a different spectrum of interests; perhaps not local electoral constituency interests, but more national interests. What...

Seanad: Seanad Bill 2013: Committee Stage (12 Nov 2014)

John Crown: I have raised this matter because it may explain the fact that Senator Paul Coghlan seemed to think there were two categories of Irish citizen abroad: those who have access to a consular office and those who do not. That is not the case. Everyone has access to a consular office. For some of them it will be in the same country they live in, while for others it will be a designated consular...

Seanad: Adjournment Matters: Nursing and Midwifery Board of Ireland (12 Nov 2014)

John Crown: I thank the Minister of State who has certainly been serving above and beyond the call of duty in Seanad Éireann today. The working conditions of nurses are a source of particular concern to me. I know that in a health services such as ours we are absolutely blessed by the presence of an extraordinary cohort of nurses. That they are so much in demand internationally is not a...