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Seanad: Children and Family Relationships Bill 2015: Committee Stage (26 Mar 2015)

John Crown: I do not want to fall into the trap others have been accused of in regard to making general comments on the specifics of an amendment. However, I want to record my complete respect and appreciation for the patience of people, mainly women, I have met over the years who found themselves making a harsh decision about compromising cancer care that would increase their chance of cure because...

Seanad: Children and Family Relationships Bill 2015: Committee Stage (26 Mar 2015)

John Crown: I move amendment No. 18: In page 22, between lines 13 and 14, to insert the following:(10) Notwithstanding any other part of this Act, under this section, a donor, or donors, may donate an embryo, for the purpose of a DAHR procedure, or a further DAHR procedure(s), anonymously, wherein all information pertaining to them in the National Donor-Conceived Person Register, established under...

Seanad: Children and Family Relationships Bill 2015: Committee Stage (26 Mar 2015)

John Crown: I move amendment No. 32: In page 29, lines 16 to 19, to delete all words from and including “, and” in line 16 down to and including “donor” in line 19.

Seanad: Children and Family Relationships Bill 2015: Committee Stage (26 Mar 2015)

John Crown: I move amendment No. 33: In page 29, line 29, after “formed” to insert “if the donor gives consent for this to occur”.

Seanad: Children and Family Relationships Bill 2015: Committee Stage (26 Mar 2015)

John Crown: I move amendment No. 34: In page 29, lines 35 to 38, to delete all words from and including “procedure,” in line 35 down to and including line 38 and substitute the following:“procedure.”.I shall not delay because I am pretty convinced at this stage that no amendments will be accepted. The purpose of this section is to try to clean up some of the problems which...

Seanad: Children and Family Relationships Bill 2015: Committee Stage (26 Mar 2015)

John Crown: What happens if I am right and they are all wrong? What happens if sperm donations pretty much end and we do not have a pool of legally registered non-anonymous donors providing sperm for people whose only recourse and opportunity for pregnancy is artificial insemination by donor? What happens if there is no supply? What if somebody comes to me crying their eyes out because I have made...

Seanad: Children and Family Relationships Bill 2015: Committee Stage (26 Mar 2015)

John Crown: The amendment looks as though it is becoming punitive at this stage. It does not look like an attempt to construct reasonable social policy. I urge Senator Mullen to reconsider his amendment and to think through its implications. I know he is a thoughtful and compassionate person. I ask him to think this matter through. I happen to believe that I am right and they are wrong about what is...

Seanad: Children and Family Relationships Bill 2015: Committee Stage (26 Mar 2015)

John Crown: I move amendment No. 38: In page 31, lines 17 to 26, to delete all words from and including "with" in line 17 down to and including line 26 and substitute the following:"with the information referred to under subsection (3) where the procedure has resulted in the pregnancy of the intending mother, the date on which the intending mother is expected to give birth or, where applicable, the...

Seanad: Children and Family Relationships Bill 2015: Committee Stage (26 Mar 2015)

John Crown: My esteemed and learned colleague has not misunderstood me. With great respect, perhaps I misunderstood the implications of the Bill.

Seanad: Children and Family Relationships Bill 2015: Committee Stage (26 Mar 2015)

John Crown: I will await the Minister's clarification.

Seanad: Children and Family Relationships Bill 2015: Committee Stage (26 Mar 2015)

John Crown: With respect, I understand the intention. My concern is in relation to the implementation. These data are not anonymised, such that if the pregnancy does not occur or proceed successfully, there is no child who has a right to those data. I am not sure why data, which are essentially maternal data or data of the couple, are being collected when there is no possible benefit to anybody else...

Seanad: Children and Family Relationships Bill 2015: Committee Stage (26 Mar 2015)

John Crown: That would be a different form of data collection, of the type undertaken in registries for research purposes. In this instance, this is notification of what a specific person had done, which becomes utterly irrelevant if there is not a living child resulting from it. While I do in general trust the integrity of the data systems of our public systems, there have been occasions when they...

Seanad: Children and Family Relationships Bill 2015: Committee Stage (26 Mar 2015)

John Crown: My amendment is related to the previous amendment which I suggested. This amendment would ensure that information that pertains to failed attempts at fertility treatments, such as miscarriages or perhaps terminations, is destroyed. The argument is the same as for the previous amendment but it provides for the fact that the Minister has been notified about a pregnancy that was as a result of...

Seanad: Children and Family Relationships Bill 2015: Committee Stage (26 Mar 2015)

John Crown: I move amendment No. 42: In page 35, between lines 18 and 19, to insert the following: “(5) Where a DAHR procedure has not resulted in a live birth, and information has been provided to the Minister under section 28, then the Minister shall ensure that records pertaining to this DAHR treatment are destroyed.”.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Drug Addiction and Recovery Models: Discussion (26 Mar 2015)

John Crown: What is crazy?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Drug Addiction and Recovery Models: Discussion (26 Mar 2015)

John Crown: I apologise that I was not present for the beginning of the presentation. I pay tribute to the great work ongoing in the area of drug rehabilitation and treatment, harm reduction and population safety. When I was elected to the Seanad a few years ago, I set off on a personal series of fact-finding missions. I visited Merchant's Quay, Hyde Park and other treatment centres. Quite a few...

Seanad: Order of Business (31 Mar 2015)

John Crown: I call on the Leader to ask the Minister for Health, the Taoiseach and the Minister for Justice and Equality to consider some radical approaches to dealing with the tobacco industry in light of the disclosure that Japan Tobacco International intends mounting a serious, and I believe ultimately futile, legal challenge. It is worth looking into the context of this to consider what remedies are...

Seanad: Order of Business (15 Apr 2015)

John Crown: I ask the Leader for clarification from the Minister for Health on the circumstances of a somewhat troubling event that occurred in Cork in the South Lee mental health services over the past several weeks. One of the nursing staff is also a member of the Psychiatric Nurses' Association, Mr. Des McSweeney, and was part of an expert committee planning future services in the unit that was to be...

Seanad: Order of Business (15 Apr 2015)

John Crown: I am not saying anything bad about the person; I am praising him.

Seanad: Order of Business (15 Apr 2015)

John Crown: I am quite happy to take responsibility for naming Mr. McSweeney in the House.