Results 621-640 of 1,253 for speaker:John Crown

Seanad: Adjournment Matters: Chronic Disease Management Programme (4 Dec 2013)

John Crown: I thank the Minister of State for taking this Adjournment matter. I want to tell her about a particularly troubling illness called Huntington's disease on which I am sure she has accumulated some information. For the benefit of the uninitiated this is a disease which has an incidence of about one in 10,000 in the European population. It is a disease which is incredibly cruel in its...

Seanad: Mental Health Services: Motion (4 Dec 2013)

John Crown: Cuirim fáilte roimh an Aire Stáit. I was just doing the sad little mental arithmetic on this and, without putting too much effort into it, I can think of 12 people I knew who died as a result of self-harm as a consequence of mental illness over the years. A couple of them were cancer patients. Three or four of them were health workers who worked in the cancer area as doctors or...

Seanad: Order of Business (4 Dec 2013)

John Crown: I am very troubled by one of the less commented-on aspects of the recent controversy regarding top-up payments in hospital boards, charities and so forth, namely, the structure of the boards of many of our hospitals and voluntary hospitals. At least two of the largest hospitals in the State, which derive their income virtually entirely from State funding, have boards that do not include even...

Seanad: Oireachtas (Ministerial and Parliamentary Offices) (Amendment) Bill 2013: Report and Final Stages (28 Nov 2013)

John Crown: Yes.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Health Insurance (Amendment) Bill 2013: Discussion (28 Nov 2013)

John Crown: I can be accused of a conflict of interest because I have a private practice and I bill private insurers, but I do have some thoughts on this matter. In the first instance, the various policies we have heard from the Government on private insurance - especially the recent one concerning tax capping - seem to be driven more by a panicky need to meet the bottom line for the HSE, than by any...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Health Information and Quality Authority Corporate Plan 2013-2015: Discussion (26 Nov 2013)

John Crown: Am I the official leader of Opposition today?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Health Information and Quality Authority Corporate Plan 2013-2015: Discussion (26 Nov 2013)

John Crown: Indeed. Democracy really is in action here. I thank the witnesses for appearing here today. I know a little about this area. As well as being involved in medicine, I studied health care quality formally at masters degree level in an MBA programme. What struck me about the formal study of quality is that it has little to do with quality and everything to do compliance, that is, compliance...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Health Information and Quality Authority Corporate Plan 2013-2015: Discussion (26 Nov 2013)

John Crown: Okay, sorry about that. I will be compliant again. I ask the witnesses to go away with one question. I know those in the agency mean well, but has HIQA ever saved a life? I believe not.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Health Information and Quality Authority Corporate Plan 2013-2015: Discussion (26 Nov 2013)

John Crown: What is the opportunity cost associated with the existence of HIQA, with money spent on large public relations departments and corporate spokespersons? Such money could be redeployed, at a time when we are trying to find out how we can save money on cancer drugs. The fact that what we will spend in one year on cancer drugs the Government will blithely spend in three weeks on bailing out the...

Seanad: Order of Business (26 Nov 2013)

John Crown: Hear, hear.

Seanad: Order of Business (26 Nov 2013)

John Crown: Figures reported in the press in recent days from a reputable medical report on different cancer rates of survival across the OECD nations make for very sobering reading for people in Ireland. I will not go into all the details; suffice it to say the statistics indicate we are doing very poorly. In the case of some cancers, we are doing nearly as poorly as any nation in the OECD can do. In...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Prevention and Treatment of Lyme Disease: Discussion (21 Nov 2013)

John Crown: When folks who come to Dr. Schwarzbach are negative for ELISA, is he then making the diagnosis on Western Blot or on the clinical questionnaire?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Prevention and Treatment of Lyme Disease: Discussion (21 Nov 2013)

John Crown: Would Dr. Schwarzbach's questionnaire ever be positive for somebody who is negative by both ELISA and by Western Blot?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Prevention and Treatment of Lyme Disease: Discussion (21 Nov 2013)

John Crown: May I ask what that agent is?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Prevention and Treatment of Lyme Disease: Discussion (21 Nov 2013)

John Crown: I am appalled that people have to spend this much money on their health - €200,000. Where has that money gone?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Prevention and Treatment of Lyme Disease: Discussion (21 Nov 2013)

John Crown: Can Ms Davala spell out the name of the formula for me?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Prevention and Treatment of Lyme Disease: Discussion (21 Nov 2013)

John Crown: Does Dr. Healy believe there is an entity of ELISA negative Lyme disease?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Prevention and Treatment of Lyme Disease: Discussion (21 Nov 2013)

John Crown: What are you?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Prevention and Treatment of Lyme Disease: Discussion (21 Nov 2013)

John Crown: I welcome the witnesses. It was very interesting for me, as a doctor, to hear the presentation. I feel I have had a CME exercise in infectious disease today. I wish to focus on specific medical issues which are troubling me greatly. If I understand what has been said correctly, the consensus of four members of the panel is that the ELISA blood test to diagnose Lyme disease does not work....

Seanad: Order of Business (20 Nov 2013)

John Crown: I have time now, if the Leader would like me to speak.