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Seanad: Adjournment Debate: Sunbed Usage (3 Jul 2013)

John Crown: I have been promoted.

Seanad: Adjournment Debate: Sunbed Usage (3 Jul 2013)

John Crown: I thank the Minister of State. I am tremendously grateful for the effort that has been made in this regard by the Minister and the Ministers of State and their officials in the Department of Health. We will raise the question again in approximately three months' time to see what the status of the legislation is at that stage.

Seanad: Adjournment Debate: Sunbed Usage (3 Jul 2013)

John Crown: I urge the Government to introduce legislation regulating the sunbed sector at the earliest opportunity. I am pleased to say the Minister of State at the Department of Health, Deputy Kathleen Lynch, has graciously informed me that such legislation will be introduced very shortly. I will be taking a non-controversial stance because I regard myself as a partner with the Government and...

Seanad: Food Provenance Bill 2013: Second Stage (3 Jul 2013)

John Crown: Cuirim fáilte roimh an Aire Stáit. I support my colleague's Bill. Few people can speak with as much authority on the subject as Senator Quinn. Few people have looked at the food supply industry as well as considered the needs and wants of consumers. Food, water and energy are the big three in determining our survival as a species in the 21st century. The supply and shepherding...

Seanad: Order of Business (3 Jul 2013)

John Crown: I inform the House of the sad death this morning, in his 91st year, of Mr. Dermot Clarke who for many years was director of operations in Aer Lingus, in which job he toiled dutifully for a long time. His curriculum vitae began at a much younger age. When he was a young man and a recent graduate of the college on Kevin Street in the new field of electrical engineering, he took to sea in 1941...

Seanad: Order of Business (3 Jul 2013)

John Crown: We have done it before.

Seanad: Order of Business (3 Jul 2013)

John Crown: May I ask for the Leader's permission to continue for 30 seconds?

Seanad: Order of Business (3 Jul 2013)

John Crown: The observations made as a result led, in many ways, to the discovery of cancer chemotherapy. I think it is appropriate that this man who lived such a wonderful and heroic life, who gave such great service to the State and who in the post-war years, after his part in the downfall of the Nazis, took part in the relief of the Berlin blockade by the Soviet communists should be remembered. He...

Seanad: Order of Business (Resumed) (2 Jul 2013)

John Crown: On a grey and overcast day, it may not seem appropriate to raise the issue of skin cancer, which is a topic I am seem somewhat obsessed with. However, because I see on a daily basis tragedies that result from late diagnosis of skin cancers, I was extremely distressed when one of my dermatology colleagues called during the past week to mark my card about a procedure in the HSE's special...

Seanad: Order of Business (Resumed) (2 Jul 2013)

John Crown: Yes. The special delivery unit is dear to the Minister's heart. It has sent instructions to outpatient clinics around the country, including dermatology departments, where traditionally we have absurd waiting lists of up to a year. It is much more than a year in some parts of the country, particularly outside Dublin. However, the SDU has told staff in outpatient scheduling divisions to no...

Seanad: Order of Business (Resumed) (2 Jul 2013)

John Crown: -----and are told only two months beforehand that they have an appointment. This makes it look as if the waiting list is only two months long. It is a fudge. Will the Leader seek clarification from the Minister about what is going in the SDU? The unit is massaging the statistics and, instead of dealing with the problem, which is the shortage of skin doctors who can diagnose early skin...

Seanad: Order of Business (27 Jun 2013)

John Crown: I would also like to recommend that any of those folks who state they cannot get access to the Taoiseach to make very important points to him might consider getting jobs in the tobacco industry.

Seanad: Order of Business (27 Jun 2013)

John Crown: At the risk of making the Chamber sound like a broken record, I mention issues relating to the banks and attempted to get the Order of Business amended. I am somewhat troubled by the fact that there are two wholly separate things that need to be investigated in the banks. There may or may not have been malfeasance and illegality on the part of bankers and the justice system should...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Public Health Nurses: Discussion (27 Jun 2013)

John Crown: Do not demote me.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Public Health Nurses: Discussion (27 Jun 2013)

John Crown: I welcome the witnesses. What is the number of public health nurses per head of population in Ireland and how does that compare to other countries in Europe?

Seanad: Register of Lobbyists Legislation: Motion (26 Jun 2013)

John Crown: I am pleased this motion has been introduced. It does not require amendment and deserves our support. I am not sure if it was inspired by events several weeks ago when it was reported that a high level delegation from the tobacco industry secured what was an unbelievable level of access to the Taoiseach and Ministers for Justice and Equality and Finance to advance the industry's commercial...

Seanad: An Bille um an Dara Leasú is Tríocha ar an mBunreacht (Deireadh a Chur le Seanad Éireann) 2013: An Dara Céim - Thirty-second Amendment of the Constitution (Abolition of Seanad Éireann) Bill 2013: Second Stage (26 Jun 2013)

John Crown: I welcome the Taoiseach to the House. In the three minutes at my disposal I am sorry if I give a Micheál O'Hehir impersonation. I ran for the Seanad two years ago on the promise to my constituents-----

Seanad: An Bille um an Dara Leasú is Tríocha ar an mBunreacht (Deireadh a Chur le Seanad Éireann) 2013: An Dara Céim - Thirty-second Amendment of the Constitution (Abolition of Seanad Éireann) Bill 2013: Second Stage (26 Jun 2013)

John Crown: Yes.

Seanad: An Bille um an Dara Leasú is Tríocha ar an mBunreacht (Deireadh a Chur le Seanad Éireann) 2013: An Dara Céim - Thirty-second Amendment of the Constitution (Abolition of Seanad Éireann) Bill 2013: Second Stage (26 Jun 2013)

John Crown: -----that I would work to either reform or abolish the currently undemocratic Seanad, which I specifically said was an affront to democracy as it is currently constituted. It is an affront because it was designed to be an affront. It was designed to sacrifice popular democracy on the altar of vocationalism. The vocationalism had a sound theoretical background although I would not have...

Seanad: An Bille um an Dara Leasú is Tríocha ar an mBunreacht (Deireadh a Chur le Seanad Éireann) 2013: An Dara Céim - Thirty-second Amendment of the Constitution (Abolition of Seanad Éireann) Bill 2013: Second Stage (26 Jun 2013)

John Crown: It is nonsense.