Results 401-420 of 1,253 for speaker:John Crown

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Fertility Issues: National Infertility Support and Information Group (3 Jul 2014)

John Crown: May I ask a supplementary question? If somebody who is not privately insured and who does not have private means goes to a GP stating they have been trying to conceive for a year and a half and they believe they need help with fertility, what will happen to them? I presume they are referred to a public gynaecology clinic.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Fertility Issues: National Infertility Support and Information Group (3 Jul 2014)

John Crown: I know there are a certain number of tests which can be done to rule out particular causes but if none of those causes is there and the recommendation is for assisted reproduction, is there no assisted reproduction available for public patients?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Fertility Issues: National Infertility Support and Information Group (3 Jul 2014)

John Crown: There is no IVF.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Fertility Issues: National Infertility Support and Information Group (3 Jul 2014)

John Crown: It is one of the sad realities for those of us working in the area of oncology that we sometimes make people infertile. We try to ensure infertility is not a side effect of the treatments we administer, but that is not always possible. The consequences of infertility are devastating for individuals and families and it is an issue we need to address. I will begin by offering Ms Fitzpatrick...

Seanad: Suicide Prevention and Mental Health Fund Bill 2014: Second Stage (2 Jul 2014)

John Crown: Cuirim fáilte roimh an Aire Stáit. I was just doing a quick mental inventory of the number of people I know personally who have taken their lives over the years, and I could make a list of 12. Suicide is a common problem, a tragedy for those concerned and an unbelievable tragedy for the bereaved. Anything we can do to highlight the issue and tackle the problem should be given...

Seanad: Health (General Practitioner Service) Bill 2014: Second Stage (2 Jul 2014)

John Crown: It is obvious that circumstances have changed somewhat since this Bill first saw the light of day in a context when radical changes were taking place in the provision of medical cards. We had a new Bill which, taken on its own, could only be welcomed. Anything that seeks to expand the access and reach of the medical card scheme can only be seen as a positive thing. Taken on its own, it is...

Seanad: Health (General Practitioner Service) Bill 2014: Second Stage (2 Jul 2014)

John Crown: The major problem with GP system as presently constituted is that for some people who do not have medical cards it is a bit expensive. We would welcome as a society any attempt to roll out free GP care, and most of the GPs I know would too. If this under-six scheme is the beginning of a roll-out, I ask the Minister of State - I am delighted to see he has a pencil in his hand - to give us...

Seanad: Health (General Practitioner Service) Bill 2014: Second Stage (2 Jul 2014)

John Crown: Do we not have time to make individual contributions?

Seanad: Order of Business (2 Jul 2014)

John Crown: I would be grateful if the Deputy Leader could find out something for me. I was very distressed to find out from a patient, in correspondence I received this morning, that the drug fampridine, which has been shown to improve the ability of patients with multiple sclerosis who have impaired mobility to walk, is now being withdrawn. Also, folks who have MS, many of whom who are bad enough to...

Seanad: Education (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2014: Second Stage (1 Jul 2014)

John Crown: I thank the Minister for his contributions to the education portfolio. I would like to state that one of the joys of my brief career here to date has been the opportunity to interact with the Minister. He has done, and hopefully will continue to do, very important work in the educational arena. I completely understand the technical requirements for this Bill and the disadvantage that its...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Expanding the Role of the Pharmacy: Irish Pharmacy Union (1 Jul 2014)

John Crown: On a point of clarification, what was it that I said?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Expanding the Role of the Pharmacy: Irish Pharmacy Union (1 Jul 2014)

John Crown: The health service is a limping service, not the pharmacy service. I said pharmacy acts as a band-aid on a limping health service.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Expanding the Role of the Pharmacy: Irish Pharmacy Union (1 Jul 2014)

John Crown: Our strange health care pie has many ingredients. As such, I acknowledge the critical role pharmacists have played in keeping a limping service alive for so long. We are all grateful to them for performing that function. In addition, every doctor will have had occasion to be grateful to a pharmacist for spotting a mistake in a prescription and thereby avoiding something bad happening....

Seanad: Order of Business (1 Jul 2014)

John Crown: It is a given that the country found itself in a very difficult situation financially and found itself making what have been called difficult choices, clearly choices that were more difficult for some than for others, over the last few years. The two parties in the Government signed up to a programme which was largely based on trying to get the public finances into order through a process of...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Adoption in Ireland: Discussion (26 Jun 2014)

John Crown: I am sorry, Chairman, but I did not hear the reply to the question about the Arc Adoption company. What services does it provide and does the Adoption Authority of Ireland have any oversight over its billing practices?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Adoption in Ireland: Discussion (26 Jun 2014)

John Crown: I may be very stupid, but I am still not happy that I understand the number. Has there been a sea change in the number of adoptions since the implementation of the Hague Convention? We hear that there have only been 11 post-Hague adoptions. Does that mean the other 106 adoptions that took place last year were already in the system pre-Hague-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Adoption in Ireland: Discussion (26 Jun 2014)

John Crown: -----or that they were being conducted outside the Hague strictures?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Adoption in Ireland: Discussion (26 Jun 2014)

John Crown: In short, what does Mr. Gildea think will happen to the number of international adoptions over the next few years?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Adoption in Ireland: Discussion (26 Jun 2014)

John Crown: From what?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Adoption in Ireland: Discussion (26 Jun 2014)

John Crown: Does Mr. Gildea think that will be the steady state for the number of adoptions?