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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Procurement Practices for the Purchase of Hospital Supplies and Equipment: Beacon Hospital and Health Service Executive (23 Jul 2015)

John Crown: I am in a slightly embarrassing position today, being an employee of St. Vincent's and one who famously does not enjoy particularly good relations with the board of management, so I have to be careful. I would also like to acknowledge that I would be perceived as working for a competitor of the Beacon Hospital, which is a very fine institution, and for that reason I am going to recuse myself...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Procurement Practices for the Purchase of Hospital Supplies and Equipment: Beacon Hospital and Health Service Executive (23 Jul 2015)

John Crown: I am not attacking her.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Procurement Practices for the Purchase of Hospital Supplies and Equipment: Beacon Hospital and Health Service Executive (23 Jul 2015)

John Crown: I am sure she is a person of incredible rectitude, but if somebody is offered a contract for which one is qualified, he or she would normally take it. The question arises from our level of satisfaction with St. Vincent's effectively investigating itself. The questions that need to be asked are not only about the person who is in line management on procurement issues but about the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Procurement Practices for the Purchase of Hospital Supplies and Equipment: Beacon Hospital and Health Service Executive (23 Jul 2015)

John Crown: Some of my researchers have asked me to be clear on the following. Mr. Menton is most accurately described as a retired partner in KPMG. I apologise for any ambiguity.

Seanad: Order of Business (23 Sep 2015)

John Crown: A Chathaoirligh, a chairde, welcome back everyone. I wish to associate myself as well with the remarks regarding our colleague, Senator Jimmy Harte, who has become a very good colleague and good friend over the last several years. I wish him all the very best for a full recovery. A Chathaoirligh, I would like to ask leave of the Leader that No. 15 be taken before No. 1 on the Order of...

Seanad: Order of Business (23 Sep 2015)

John Crown: I propose an amendment to the Order of Business, namely, that No. 15 be taken before No. 1.

Seanad: Longer Healthy Living Bill 2015: First Stage (23 Sep 2015)

John Crown: I move:That leave be granted to introduce a Bill entitled an Act to ensure that all those who are employees of the Department of Health, and all those who are employed by bodies directly funded by the Department of Health, may, if they wish, postpone their retirement where they would otherwise have been forced to retire at a particular age that is stipulated in their employment contract,...

Seanad: Longer Healthy Living Bill 2015: First Stage (23 Sep 2015)

John Crown: In a break with tradition, next Wednesday.

Seanad: Longer Healthy Living Bill 2015: Second Stage (30 Sep 2015)

John Crown: Cuirim fáilte roimh an Aire. I give the Minister a great big welcome and thank him for coming to the House. I know this is an issue he has dealt with very constructively before. In introducing the Bill today we are not in any sense trying to undermine anything he might wish to do independently to implement it in spirit, if not in all of the specifics. We would hope that this Bill, if...

Seanad: Longer Healthy Living Bill 2015: Second Stage (30 Sep 2015)

John Crown: I can go to the long version of my speech. I am reminded of a couple of outstanding anecdotal examples, one of which shall remain nameless, a very famous surgeon who worked in St. Vincent's Hospital, who one day was running an academic department, performing operations, coming in at night-time to do emergency surgery, teaching medical students, preparing international research presentations...

Seanad: Longer Healthy Living Bill 2015: Second Stage (30 Sep 2015)

John Crown: I thank the Minister for his courtesy and constructiveness in dealing with the Bill. I am grateful that he and his officials have decided not to oppose it but to allow it proceed to the next Stage which we hope to do, relatively quickly, giving everyone the opportunity to table the substantial Committee Stage amendments which are required. In answer to a few specific points, such as the...

Seanad: Longer Healthy Living Bill 2015: Second Stage (30 Sep 2015)

John Crown: Next Wednesday.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: National Maternity Services and Infrastructure: Discussion (Resumed) (1 Oct 2015)

John Crown: I am at this stage officially despondent about any attempts to reform the health system or about meaningful practical actions to improve the service for patients taking place on foot of administrative reports. Forgive me if I sound browbeaten at this stage. I have been harping for 22 years since I came back to this country about the absolutely mediocre health system. People talk about it...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: National Maternity Services and Infrastructure: Discussion (Resumed) (1 Oct 2015)

John Crown: That would leave us way below the average.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: National Maternity Services and Infrastructure: Discussion (Resumed) (1 Oct 2015)

John Crown: I thank Dr. Fitzpatrick. That was a fantastic, passionate presentation. I have seldom been as impressed by or as proud of a professional colleague sitting in that chair as I am of him right now, calling it as it is. However, I am not overly confident that all the things he has said will actually percolate through to the decision-making process, such is my level of cynicism about that...

Seanad: Order of Business (22 Oct 2015)

John Crown: I bring to the attention of Members that yesterday was Back to the Future day. It was the day depicted in the famous 1985 movie starring Michael J. Fox, following the intervention of Christopher Lloyd and a DeLorean encapsulated time machine. If Marty McFly had been Dr. Marty McFly and had been transported from the Irish health service in 1985 to the health service in 2015, he would have...

Seanad: Order of Business (22 Oct 2015)

John Crown: Yes.

Seanad: Order of Business (10 Nov 2015)

John Crown: Will the Leader bring to the attention of the Minister my concerns on the issue of whistleblower protection and the attitude towards those who point out deficiencies in the health service? This issue has been alluded to on a number of occasions but it is fairly obvious from recent events - I will not personalise the issue by mentioning the name of the doctor or the hospital - that there is...

Seanad: Order of Business (10 Nov 2015)

John Crown: Perhaps we should schedule a debate in this House to discuss the issue of whistleblowing and have the Leader consider arranging one of our special sessions to examine some specific examples of whistleblower intimidation which have occurred.I propose an amendment to the Order of Business that No. 48 be taken before No. 1.

Seanad: Order of Business (10 Nov 2015)

John Crown: Yes.