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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 thank Ms Molloy.

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 thank Ms Delahunt.

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

John Crown: We should not have any requirement or need for locums. We should have a sufficiently well-staffed service to enable cover when a staff member becomes ill or is otherwise incapacitated. It is wrong that we have locums in the first place. It is a Band-aid over the problem of under-staffing.

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

John Crown: Deputy Healy has kindly yielded. I am very sorry I was not here for Mr. O'Brien's presentation. This is not a day I normally have blocked off for Seanad activities. I am afraid that there are certain parts of the schedule that have become a little inflexible. I thank Deputy Healy for giving his time to me. If any of my ten minutes are left over, I would like to give them back to him. ...

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

John Crown: I acknowledge that.

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

John Crown: Do you deny that these men and women were Minister for Health?

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

John Crown: Mea culpa.

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

John Crown: I will not. I withdraw the names, but I believe that, collectively, all Ministers for Health in modern times in the State were asleep at the wheel and allowed this to happen. That is the way the system has evolved; they are the people we picked to do it and it is there responsibility rests. It is also from there that reform will come. I am hopeful the new Minister will actually...

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

John Crown: I would gladly give the opportunity to all former Ministers for Health to say the problems in the health system had nothing to do with them. I would be delighted to hear them say this.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Amnesty International Report on Ireland's Abortion Laws: Discussion (9 Jun 2015)

John Crown: I thank the witnesses for attending and for the report. I have a position on abortion that makes everyone maximally unhappy. While it may not have been hijacked, the debate is being driven by people at the two extremes, and a logical, considered, temperate, thoughtful, scientifically informed and unsentimental middle ground has not been allowed to develop. The position that a two-cell,...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Amnesty International Report on Ireland's Abortion Laws: Discussion (9 Jun 2015)

John Crown: While I am open to correction, I do not believe any finding of medical negligence has been made against any doctor with respect to-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Amnesty International Report on Ireland's Abortion Laws: Discussion (9 Jun 2015)

John Crown: ----- Ms Savita Halappanavar. That is very important. I say quite firmly that there has been gross administrative negligence on the part of successive Governments that let this unit be so understaffed and under-resourced in common with all the other obstetric, medical and surgical units throughout the country.

Seanad: Order of Business (11 Jun 2015)

John Crown: I will give some good and some bad news and in the process ask the Deputy Leader and the representatives of the Government parties to communicate to the Minister for Health and possibly to schedule a debate in this Chamber on an issue that has become a low-level national emergency. I will give the bad news first on this beautiful sunny summer's day. The incidence of malignant melanoma in...

Seanad: Health (General Practitioner Service) Bill 2015: Second Stage (11 Jun 2015)

John Crown: I welcome the extension of the provisions to the over-70s. It is overdue and while it is, as the Minister of State has said, a step along the road, it is a very long road and a lot needs to be done. I am not happy that the basic tenet on which the Government was elected, namely fundamental reform of the health service, is not being honoured. I do not wish the Minister of State to take that...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: St. James's Hospital, Dublin: Chairman Designate (11 Jun 2015)

John Crown: I apologise for missing the beginning of Mr. Donnelly's presentation. I wish him the very best in his new role. My first oncology job was in St. James's Hospital many years ago and I have a large well of warm and sentimental good feeling about the institution. It is, in the Irish context, a wonderful hospital. While things in Ireland are not great by international standards, the hospital...

Seanad: Tackling Obesity in Ireland: Statements (17 Jun 2015)

John Crown: I welcome the Minister and I am sorry I was not in the House for his opening address. I welcome the priority he and the Government will give to this problem. Many of his medical school classmates, younger women and men than me, will be spending long careers dealing with the consequences if we do not tackle this problem now. There has been an incredible explosion in knowledge about the true...

Seanad: Tackling Obesity in Ireland: Statements (17 Jun 2015)

John Crown: I beg the indulgence of the Minister. I wish to make another point. I do not think it would undermine the principles of community rating if we put a policy of incentives in place regarding private health premiums to incentivise healthy behaviours and lifestyles. Somebody cannot choose not to be old, therefore we as a community decide to rate them in the same way as we rate young people for...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Pre-Pregnancy Folic Acid Supplementation: Discussion (25 Jun 2015)

John Crown: I was trying to find out what was the first paper from Ireland on the issue of FA and neural tube defects because a lot of research was done on this here by Professor Weir and Dr. Scott. Ireland has contributed significantly to this area. I am delighted to see such high quality publications from Professor Turner and others in this area. I thank Professor Turner. This is very important....

Seanad: Harmful and Malicious Electronic Communications Bill 2015: Second Stage [Private Members] (1 Jul 2015)

John Crown: While I respect the sentiments which have motivated the Bill, I must, with regret, oppose it because we do not have a first amendment in Ireland. If we did, I would be a first amendment hawk. Free speech is the cornerstone of any democratic society. Any law which has within it the potential to undermine free speech, a law which, when crafted by well-meaning people like Senator Higgins,...

Seanad: Harmful and Malicious Electronic Communications Bill 2015: Second Stage [Private Members] (1 Jul 2015)

John Crown: Although it has been suggested that I should stick to medicine, and perhaps it is because of that occupation that I am unfamiliar with the relevant Standing Order-----