Results 561-580 of 1,253 for speaker:John Crown

Seanad: Order of Business (5 Feb 2014)

John Crown: Hear, hear.

Seanad: Order of Business (5 Feb 2014)

John Crown: I raised an issue last week which was not exactly dealt with. Given the torrent of issues that arose, it was one that was somehow skipped over but I would like to remind the Leader of it. A medical journalist and practitioner contacted me to state that following a piece he had written in a national newspaper in which he was, as are many people - I understand there are two sides to the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Public Health (Standardised Packaging of Tobacco) Bill 2013: Discussion (Resumed) (30 Jan 2014)

John Crown: I have no comment to make at the moment.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Public Health (Standardised Packaging of Tobacco) Bill 2013: Discussion (Resumed) (30 Jan 2014)

John Crown: I welcome my various colleagues in the anti-smoking struggle here today. This is a slam dunk and everybody who cares about health will support this Bill. We need to get it shepherded through as quickly as we can. All the arguments about smuggling and illegality are entirely bogus. I believe in my heart, and I believe the evidence is clear, that the tobacco industry directly and indirectly...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Public Health (Standardised Packaging of Tobacco) Bill 2013: Discussion (Resumed) (30 Jan 2014)

John Crown: It could be fixed with about three hours of legal time.

Seanad: Seanad Reform: Motion (29 Jan 2014)

John Crown: I second the motion. I welcome the Minister of State, Deputy Kehoe, to the House. It is in truth a given that there is a prevalent cynicism about democracy and an increasing scepticism about its potential for reform and self improvement. Many citizens are totally alienated from the democratic process, believing that a self-perpetuating system populated by self-serving people neither...

Seanad: Health Identifiers Bill 2013: Second Stage (29 Jan 2014)

John Crown: Cuirim fáilte roimh an Aire. I am broadly in support of the idea of enhanced patient identification as a means of improving safety. There is no doubt that when one has as internally discordant set of health services as we have in this country that it is essential that we think of better ways of managing medical records and facilitating appropriate transferral of sensitive information....

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Public Health (Standardised Packaging of Tobacco) Bill 2013: Discussion (23 Jan 2014)

John Crown: I welcome my Garda colleagues. I am sorry if I am being inappropriate but I would like to express my sympathy to them as it is close to the anniversary of the loss of one of their colleagues in the line of duty last year. I know it is in everybody's mind today. The situation with respect to tobacco is unprecedented. If this product had been discovered during the 20th century it would...

Seanad: Order of Business (22 Jan 2014)

John Crown: Yes.

Seanad: Order of Business (22 Jan 2014)

John Crown: I propose an amendment to the Order of Business to ask the Minister for Health to attend the House today to address the issues that arose with respect to the letter by the Irish emergency medicine trainees that courageously highlighted some glaring deficiencies and some misperceptions that are being advanced, one hopes inaccurately, by the authorities with respect to the number of patients on...

Seanad: Order of Business (22 Jan 2014)

John Crown: I am not attacking him. He has asked me to raise this matter.

Seanad: Order of Business (22 Jan 2014)

John Crown: He has asked me to raise this.

Seanad: Order of Business (22 Jan 2014)

John Crown: He has asked me to bring up the issue. I will not be criticising anybody by name. I am supporting Dr. Hanley who pointed out that when he wrote an article in which he bluntly stated that he believed the HSE was terrifying people with the threat of the denial of their medical cards, he received a letter from a member of the communications staff of the HSE accusing him of defaming the HSE and...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Update on Health Issues: Minister for Health and HSE (16 Jan 2014)

John Crown: I thank Mr. O'Brien. That is very helpful. Who will pick the boards?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Update on Health Issues: Minister for Health and HSE (16 Jan 2014)

John Crown: Can we have an assurance that there is no question of existing full-time, full-pay jobs being replaced by cheaper graduate nursing positions? We spoke about the employment guidelines but both the departmental guidelines and the graduate nursing scheme come from the Government. This could be construed as an attempt to lower the bar of competition for the pay and conditions of nurses.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Update on Health Issues: Minister for Health and HSE (16 Jan 2014)

John Crown: I again welcome my colleagues. With respect to my previous question on accountancy numbers which was very technical, I am very happy with the written answer provided and do not require any further clarification on the matter. I would welcome a little discussion on the graduate nursing scheme, with which I am slightly troubled. It appears to be implicit in the philosophy behind the scheme...

Seanad: Order of Business (16 Jan 2014)

John Crown: We are soon to have legislation that will have the effect of introducing plain packaging and other restrictions on the tobacco industry. I hope it will be passed and put into law expeditiously. I greatly regret the fact that tobacco control legislation that I introduced, and which would have barred the lobbying by tobacco companies, was defeated. The second of my Bills, co-sponsored by my...

Seanad: Order of Business (16 Jan 2014)

John Crown: However, one realises there has not been since the First World War a better example of lions led by donkeys than the situation that applied in this case. I have no problem whatsoever with the activities of St. Vincent's Foundation. My problems are specifically with the board structures of the various organisations in St. Vincent's and other voluntary hospitals, structures that have...

Seanad: Order of Business (15 Jan 2014)

John Crown: I add my new year greetings to those we have heard and wish everybody a productive year working on behalf of those who have elected us and the broader society. I ask the Leader to bring to the attention of the Minister for Health information which came to my attention, unfortunately, after the HSE service plan meeting of the Joint Committee on Health and Children yesterday. The information...

Seanad: Order of Business (15 Jan 2014)

John Crown: I have asked the Leader to bring this to the Minister's attention. Finally, it was stated that this contract between PwC and the management of St. Vincent's Private Hospital - the entity which had done the dishonest billing - would only be made available to the entity whose moneys were taken, that is, the VHI, if it had the approval of St. Vincent's Private Hospital. I ask the Leader to ask...