Results 1,181-1,200 of 1,253 for speaker:John Crown

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

John Crown: Under the relevant Standing Order, I request that the division be taken again other than by electronic means.

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

John Crown: Yes.

Seanad: Report of Working Group on Seanad Reform 2015: Statements (8 Jul 2015)

John Crown: I welcome my two esteemed colleagues and thank them for the great work they have done in a spirt of public service. Any departures I might have from the consensus that may have existed within its group about its recommendations should not construed as anything less than fully appreciative of the efforts they have made. I came in here last week and spoke on a different issue in which I quoted...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: National Drugs Strategy: Minister of State at the Department of Health (9 Jul 2015)

John Crown: I welcome the Minister of State and his officials. I really wish the Minister of State well. This is perhaps the greatest example of a situation where we need first thinking. This is a classical example of society, and not just Irish society, looking at something in a certain way for 50 or 60 years, seeing the evidence stacking up, ceiling high, that what we are doing is wrong but...

Seanad: Commencement Matters: Hospital Procedures (15 Jul 2015)

John Crown: Cuirim fáilte roimh an Aire Stáit.I wish to use these few minutes to bring to the Minister of State's attention a very frustrating problem which has arisen in the health service. It relates to a very promising, relatively new but well established technique called transcatheter aortic valve implantation, or TAVI. To put the Minister in the picture, aortic stenosis is a condition in...

Seanad: Commencement Matters: Hospital Procedures (15 Jul 2015)

John Crown: I am very grateful for that. My cardiology colleagues and I will eagerly follow the debate as it evolves. For clarity, I am not advocating more centres or any attenuation or dilution of the numbers coming through.

Seanad: Commencement Matters: Hospital Procedures (15 Jul 2015)

John Crown: We have about the right number of centres now. With Cork semi-officially open, that makes four, which is probably enough, as it has to be linked to places where cardiac surgery is done. The problem is that it is being done in an uncoordinated fashion and without a designated budget. When someone comes from another hospital that does not have a budget for cardiac surgery, he or she has less...

Seanad: Commencement Matters: Hospital Procedures (15 Jul 2015)

John Crown: I would make the point that the Mater and St. Vincent's hospitals are already in the same hospital group.

Seanad: Order of Business (15 Jul 2015)

John Crown: Will Senator Heffernan get a chance to speak or do I need to share a minute with him?

Seanad: Order of Business (15 Jul 2015)

John Crown: I also request that the Minister come in and update us on the transplant situation. Over the past few years, those in charge of transplant policy in the country have felt it has been very unco-ordinated. We have seen other examples of problems in the health service where one critical retirement or one strategically important person going on maternity or ill-health leave has caused chaos in...

Seanad: Transplant Patient Services: Motion (15 Jul 2015)

John Crown: I thank the Minister for coming in at short notice. I know it is difficult. I should mention at the outset that I have a dog in this fight, as they say in the vernacular, because I am a member of staff at St. Vincent's Hospital. In that capacity, I would like to welcome the new unit at the hospital and the new service that will be offered in our institution. I am trying to see beyond that...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Delays in the Registration of Nurses and Midwives: Discussion (16 Jul 2015)

John Crown: I welcome the witnesses and acknowledge the important work done by the board. This is obviously a much more challenging time than in the days when six or seven Irish nursing schools provided all the graduates that were needed. Circumstances are now very different. Having had extensive representations made to me by individual nurses and their representatives at the time of the proposed...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Delays in the Registration of Nurses and Midwives: Discussion (16 Jul 2015)

John Crown: The witnesses have addressed most of my questions. My only remaining one is about public relations costs. What public relations contract does the Nursing and Midwifery Board of Ireland, NMBI, have and how much does it pay for it?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Delays in the Registration of Nurses and Midwives: Discussion (16 Jul 2015)

John Crown: I do want to go to the vote. Perhaps I missed the answer, but the specific question I had was about how much is spent on public relations.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Delays in the Registration of Nurses and Midwives: Discussion (16 Jul 2015)

John Crown: Can I ask a supplementary question on that?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Delays in the Registration of Nurses and Midwives: Discussion (16 Jul 2015)

John Crown: I have to leave for the vote. I am not putting Dr. Pidgeon on the spot because she may not have all this information at her fingertips, but is it the same company? Web design and public relations are very different skillsets. Is the same company doing both for €300,000?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Delays in the Registration of Nurses and Midwives: Discussion (16 Jul 2015)

John Crown: Dr. Pidgeon may not know this off the top of her head, but how much of that is for the web part and how much for public relations? I am very interested. It is not just the Nursing and Midwifery Board of Ireland, I ask everybody this. I have a bee in my bonnet about public bodies spending money on public relations.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Delays in the Registration of Nurses and Midwives: Discussion (16 Jul 2015)

John Crown: Approximately €220,000 is budgeted for public relations.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Delays in the Registration of Nurses and Midwives: Discussion (16 Jul 2015)

John Crown: What was the staff member doing?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Delays in the Registration of Nurses and Midwives: Discussion (16 Jul 2015)

John Crown: It is public relations, then. I thank Dr. Pidgeon.