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Seanad: Order of Business (15 Apr 2015)

John Crown: A member of staff, who was also a member of an expert committee which was planning services for the hospital, disagreed with some of the proposed developments. He gave a public interview about them and suddenly found himself suspended. I believe he has now been reinstated, but it is very troubling to me that the HSE elected that this gentleman be suspended from his duties pending an...

Seanad: Order of Business (16 Apr 2015)

John Crown: I rise to raise again today an issue I have raised previously, and on which Senator White has proposed legislation, namely, mandatory retirement in the health service. I would like to bring to the attention of my colleagues that a critical person in a specialty in Ireland has reached the age of mandatory retirement and will retire in three weeks time. I had occasion recently to speak to...

Seanad: Order of Business (16 Apr 2015)

John Crown: I thank the Cathaoirleach for his advice. This is a matter of which legislators need to be aware. This is not an arcane, theoretical issue of some far distant public policy. Three weeks from now this country will be down one critically important specialist who has not as yet been replaced. I take this opportunity to comment on the recent, sad loss of Dr. Mary Redmond, founder of the Irish...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Intellectual Disability and Ageing: Discussion (16 Apr 2015)

John Crown: The TILDA process is phenomenally great research. It is a credit to all involved that, unlike much research, it will provide useful data. Are the issues related to the increased prevalence of dementia in this population real or are they related to changes in diagnostic criteria or people taking the problem more seriously? Were assumptions made about folks who had intellectual disabilities...

Seanad: Report of the Working Group on Seanad Reform 2015: Statements (5 May 2015)

John Crown: I welcome the report and the great effort our distinguished colleagues have made in this regard. As pointed out, the key problem in our democracy, the fruits of which we have seen recently, is that we have too many elected representatives whose sole focus is on local rather than national issues. We do not have a good mechanism for ensuring there is expertise in the halls of power to enable...

Seanad: Order of Business (7 May 2015)

John Crown: I know that I am beginning to sound like a broken record and that the attention of many in the Oireachtas has been distracted by other events which will take place in the first quarter of 2016. However, we cannot lose sight of the fact that there is an unprecedented meltdown in the health service. Problems I identified 22 years ago when I first came back to the country are just as bad as or...

Seanad: Order of Business (7 May 2015)

John Crown: I am finishing.

Seanad: Order of Business (7 May 2015)

John Crown: I always seek a debate. Is the Cathaoirleach on for one? I have recently been informed about what happened with a post considered to be an extraordinarily sought after position. The post should have had Irish graduates lining up, dusting off their curricula vitae and promoting the fact that they had training in America, Boston, London or wherever. It should have enticed them to come back...

Seanad: Order of Business (7 May 2015)

John Crown: We need revolution and not reform in the health service. Will the Leader arrange a debate on the topic? I propose an amendment to the Order of Business in order that this emergency can be addressed by the Minister for Health, or one of his Ministers of State, today.

Seanad: Order of Business (7 May 2015)

John Crown: It is.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: HIQA Investigation into Midland Regional Hospital, Portlaoise: Health Information and Quality Authority (13 May 2015)

John Crown: I thank Mr. Quinn for his hard work on the report and for his presentation today. I mean no intrinsic disrespect when I say that the core recommendations seem to boil down to one group of administrative oversight, investigative staff in HIQA commenting on the generally inadequate administrative responses of another group of administrative staff, that is, the HSE and the staff on the ground...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Update on Health Issues: Department of Health and Health Service Executive (14 May 2015)

John Crown: I know that I have the opportunity to talk about the Midlands Regional Hospital in Portlaoise, but looking at it from a clinician's perspective, it looks like the basic interchange between two entities, with one administrative organisation criticising the other for what its perceives as an inadequate administrative response. I do not think that is a high priority. The problem is not unique...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Update on Health Issues: Department of Health and Health Service Executive (14 May 2015)

John Crown: On a point of information, as the position may have been misrepresented, the Mater hospital and St. Vincent's hospital currently provide daytime services for everyone except STEMI patients. It was proposed that consultants at the two hospitals do a joint rota at the Mater hospital site only in the evenings and on weekends. Consultants did not reject providing the service on two separate...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: HIQA Investigation into Midland Regional Hospital, Portlaoise (Resumed): Parents and Patient Advocates (19 May 2015)

John Crown: I extend my sympathy to the bereaved and those who have suffered such terrible losses. I cannot begin to imagine the pain they continue to experience which has been compounded by certain factors which came into play following the deaths of their children. What they have endured is simply horrific. I am terribly sad about the position in which our guests find themselves and I am also...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: HIQA Investigation into Midland Regional Hospital, Portlaoise (Resumed): Parents and Patient Advocates (19 May 2015)

John Crown: It does not appear to relate to any of my material. I do not think it can be my pacemaker. I believe I can give that a few more years. How long do I have? I was told I had six minutes.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: HIQA Investigation into Midland Regional Hospital, Portlaoise (Resumed): Parents and Patient Advocates (19 May 2015)

John Crown: I did not know we had spokespeople. I am sorry. I will finish very quickly. In the case of Neary, responsibility was put onto the individuals who carried out the terrible, awful practice but there was something wrong with a system which allowed somebody to act, effectively single handedly, way beyond their competence and their surgical skills in a hospital which did not have an intensive...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: HIQA Investigation into Midland Regional Hospital, Portlaoise (Resumed): Parents and Patient Advocates (19 May 2015)

John Crown: I would just like to ask-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: HIQA Investigation into Midland Regional Hospital, Portlaoise (Resumed): Parents and Patient Advocates (19 May 2015)

John Crown: I did not get a chance to ask the question the first time.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: HIQA Investigation into Midland Regional Hospital, Portlaoise (Resumed): Parents and Patient Advocates (19 May 2015)

John Crown: My question is for the relatives, whom I am sorry to put on the spot. When they were interacting with professional staff in the hospital and at the critical moments when they believed the problems occurred that led to their tragic loss, approximately how often were they dealing directly with a consultant in a permanent post?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: HIQA Investigation into Midland Regional Hospital, Portlaoise (Resumed): Parents and Patient Advocates (19 May 2015)

John Crown: In most of the visits during the pregnancy.