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

John Crown: I am grateful for the attention the Minister of State and the Minister will give this matter. I am reassured by the personal attention of the Minister of State and therefore wish to raise some specific questions. Nurses are troubled by the board's lack of transparency. I do not refer to vagueness or waffle in terms of transparency; there are specific concerns. How much is being spent on...

Seanad: Order of Business (13 Nov 2014)

John Crown: I echo Senator Feargal Quinn's hopes that the working group on Seanad reform will be productive. My own sense is that it should comprise people who are committed Seanad reformers and have spoken, acted, written and theorised on the issue. It should not include anybody who advocated for abolition of the Seanad. It would be strangely counterproductive to have an anti-reformist fifth column...

Seanad: Order of Business (13 Nov 2014)

John Crown: The issue I wish to raise-----

Seanad: Order of Business (13 Nov 2014)

John Crown: Several articles in the newspapers today refer to the issue of clinical genetics, an issue I have previously highlighted in the House. I ask the Deputy Leader to request the Minister for Health or one of the Ministers of State at the Department of Health to give his or her special attention to the urgent need to develop clinical genetics in this country and brief the House on how these plans...

Seanad: Adoption (Identity and Information) Bill 2014: Second Stage (19 Nov 2014)

John Crown: Hear, hear.

Seanad: Order of Business (20 Nov 2014)

John Crown: One of the themes of the current Seanad is that our Leader, Senator Cummins, has done a very good job in smoothing the way business is done in the Chamber in general. We are appreciative of that but I would like to make one more suggestion. It happens fairly frequently that there is no legislation available. We have been seeing a few gaps in the schedule lately. While I understand...

Seanad: Order of Business (25 Nov 2014)

John Crown: Will the Leader ask the Minister for Justice and Equality to make representations to the Pakistani Government on behalf of Asia Bibi who has been in prison for the past four years for the crime of blasphemy. I find it very offensive that in any country anywhere in the world somebody is serving a custodial sentence, not to mention, as this lady is, under a death sentence which, thankfully has...

Seanad: Order of Business (25 Nov 2014)

John Crown: Yes.

Seanad: Availability of Certain Medication: Statements (26 Nov 2014)

John Crown: The Minister is very familiar with the whole concept of health economics. I do not believe for one second that medicine can be practised in an economic vacuum. I understand that every decision made about a patient has an opportunity cost for another patient who may benefit from a treatment which is denied them because the money was spent on the first patient. It is a question of...

Seanad: Availability of Certain Medication: Statements (26 Nov 2014)

John Crown: On a point of information, the money would not be spent on health services; it would be spent elsewhere in the bureaucracy of government.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: HIV in Ireland: Discussion (27 Nov 2014)

John Crown: I apologise for coming and going, but I am also dealing with another matter this morning. I am in the grip of double jobbing, for which I apologise. This has been one of the most extraordinary stories in modern medicine. People forget this, but it is simply amazing. If anyone had predicted, even in 1989, that treatments routinely available within 15 years would be so good that, as far...

Seanad: Order of Business (2 Dec 2014)

John Crown: I add my sympathies to those being extended to Mr. Corrie's family. Homelessness is a very sad reality in the city and it is a problem which has many facets. People may find themselves in settled employment one minute, with a home and family, and they may suddenly find they have lost their job and house. Their problems are different to the issues experienced by somebody who is severely ill...

Seanad: Order of Business (2 Dec 2014)

John Crown: Every public relations contract in every local authority in the country can be ended and we should put a modest tax on cigarettes, with the money being used specifically for maintaining a homeless shelter. We could fix this problem in approximately six weeks if we had the will.

Seanad: Order of Business (2 Dec 2014)

John Crown: Dublin City Council is spending money this year on an interpretive centre for Bull Island. The entire country is starting to resemble a bull island if this is the scale of priorities when people are freezing in the street.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Ambulance Service Review: Health Information and Quality Authority (2 Dec 2014)

John Crown: As previous speakers said, the report has highlighted inefficiencies and I am sorry but the officials may have presented these data. How many ambulances do we have per head of population? How many are there in Northern Ireland and Scotland? Does HIQA have the statistics for most countries in western Europe?

Seanad: Order of Business (3 Dec 2014)

John Crown: I acknowledge the co-operation of my friend and colleague, Senator Mullen, for allowing me to speak first so that he can second my amendment to the Order of Business. I propose that the Minister for Health or the Minister of State at the Department of Health should come to the House to brief us urgently on what is happening with obstetrical care. It is now more than two years since the...

Seanad: Order of Business (3 Dec 2014)

John Crown: Yes.

Seanad: Defamation (Amendment) Bill 2014: Second Stage (3 Dec 2014)

John Crown: Cuirim fáilte roimh an Aire Stáit. I welcome the Minister of State, Deputy Aodhán Ó Ríordáin, to answer formally on behalf of the Government for this Bill. I also take this opportunity to wish him the best in his future endeavours in his portfolio. He has a strong personal and professional commitment to the issues of equality and human rights and I am...

Seanad: Defamation (Amendment) Bill 2014: Second Stage (3 Dec 2014)

John Crown: I thank in particular the Minister of State. We talked earlier on about the new politics and we have seen a good example of a very constructive approach. I was humbled by the detailed and appropriately forensic analysis of the legal deficiencies in the Bill, which were pointed out, and I am delighted to have had the opportunity to have so much free legal advice as I have had this afternoon....

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Best Practice Access Guidelines: Irish Wheelchair Association (4 Dec 2014)

John Crown: I thank the deputation for coming. I am sorry, but I have not had a chance to study the document provided. Are there guidelines for private residential rented accommodation? I raise this question because I live in rented accommodation and recently had a guest in a wheelchair. It had never struck me that there might be a problem. The main bathrooms in these relatively large apartments...