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Seanad: Order of Business (26 Nov 2015)

John Crown: Following on from Senator Norris's comment about the very hypocritical admonition of alcohol companies to drink carefully, they mean "don't spill it". The truth is that alcohol companies have one ambition and that is to sell more alcohol. I have said here and in the Oireachtas Joint Committee on Health and Children that any attempt by the authorities to engage with the alcohol industry as...

Seanad: Order of Business (26 Nov 2015)

John Crown: I join in the thanks and praise to Bernard Hand. Will the Leader clarify if he will make time available for outstanding Bills on Committee Stage before the expiration of the current Oireachtas? If not, I will press for a division on the amendment today.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Independent Advocacy Services for Health Service Users: Discussion (26 Nov 2015)

John Crown: I apologise for not being here for the earlier presentation. I will also try to be brief. We clearly need better advocacy services. I am very supportive of it. I am a supporter of transparency and openness in all areas of the public service, from Government down to doctors and hospitals. There should be an automatic right of access to all records which does not have to go through any kind...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Independent Advocacy Services for Health Service Users: Discussion (26 Nov 2015)

John Crown: The Government's record is very clear.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Independent Advocacy Services for Health Service Users: Discussion (26 Nov 2015)

John Crown: I am setting the record straight, not advocating. I have been accused of being untruthful on a matter of public record.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Independent Advocacy Services for Health Service Users: Discussion (26 Nov 2015)

John Crown: I reminded the meeting of the point of view of the Government in 2011.

Seanad: Order of Business (2 Dec 2015)

John Crown: When I made my acceptance speech in Seanad Éireann in 2011, I stated that I would never again run for the Seanad under the existing electoral system, which I described as an affront to democracy. It was, is and remains an affront to democracy. It is unacceptable that we still have not had Seanad reform. We recently had a statement from the Taoiseach, two years after the referendum...

Seanad: Order of Business (2 Dec 2015)

John Crown: May I speak?

Seanad: Order of Business (2 Dec 2015)

John Crown: We are not pressing the amendment but I acknowledge that the Leader has undertaken to do his best. I understand, with the vicissitudes of the scheduling between now and the Christmas recess, he will give us time, hopefully the week after next, to debate that Bill.

Seanad: Seanad Electoral Reform Bill 2013: Committee and Remaining Stages (15 Dec 2015)

John Crown: Ba mhaith liom buíochas a ghabháil leis an Aire Stáit. I thank the Minister of State for coming to the Seanad today. I am conscious of the fact that, at a busy time in the dying embers of the current Oireachtas, the Government has generously made 29 minutes available to me to discuss Committee and Final Stages of this legislation, legislation which would cause a fundamental...

Seanad: Order of Business (17 Dec 2015)

John Crown: Hear, hear.

Seanad: Order of Business (17 Dec 2015)

John Crown: On the day on which the Bill to ban smoking in cars where children are present, which was originated in the House, is being implemented by ministerial decree, I thank the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs, Deputy James Reilly, who adopted the Bill and shepherded it through the Oireachtas. I also thank the Minister for Health, Deputy Leo Varadkar. I particularly thank Senator Mark Daly...

Seanad: Public Health (Alcohol) Bill 2015: Second Stage (17 Dec 2015)

John Crown: I welcome the Minister to the House. I am sure the points I make will be duplicative. I have been asked by the Royal College of Physicians in Ireland and others who are the experts in the area to make a few points. The following is the fantasy scenario that would happen if everybody in Ireland stopped drinking alcohol completely tomorrow. There would be a colossal decline in the incidence...

Seanad: Order of Business (21 Jan 2016)

John Crown: I was somewhat inspired when I heard the interplay between the Fianna Fáil and Fine Gael Senators on various issues, including the national anthem. I kept thinking that perhaps we should entitle today's proceedings "Civil War: The Musical". On a very serious note, it is probably a well-known fact at this stage that I am unlikely to run for this House again. In reflecting on the five...

Seanad: Order of Business (21 Jan 2016)

John Crown: I propose an amendment to the Order of Business that the Minister for Health would come to the House to discuss the emergency in Cork.

Seanad: Order of Business (21 Jan 2016)

John Crown: Senator Bacik was a Government Senator.

Seanad: Order of Business (21 Jan 2016)

John Crown: Tá sé.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Health Products Regulatory Authority: Chairman Designate (21 Jan 2016)

John Crown: I also welcome Ms Horan to her critically important role. I have been very involved in new drug development and I founded the country’s first national clinical research group so I have had extensive dealings over the years with the Irish Medicines Board, IMB, as it was then, now the HPRA. Over the past decade in general it has conducted its business in a professional fashion. I...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Health Products Regulatory Authority: Chairman Designate (21 Jan 2016)

John Crown: I am not. I am discussing aspects of the curriculum vitae of the person who is here before us today.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Health Products Regulatory Authority: Chairman Designate (21 Jan 2016)

John Crown: That is correct.