Results 781-800 of 1,253 for speaker:John Crown

Seanad: Order of Business (26 Jun 2013)

John Crown: It has just been announced that 2,000 people are waiting for hospice services due to an appalling lack of hospice beds and I must say that puts everything else we will say today into perspective. I would like two issues of conflict of interest addressed. One is a specific query for the Leader to address to the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation, Deputy Richard Bruton, because...

Seanad: Order of Business (26 Jun 2013)

John Crown: Yes. I am asking for debates on the new insurance forum and on the Magdalen laundries in light of the statements I just made.

Seanad: Request to move Adjournment of Seanad under Standing Order 30 (25 Jun 2013)

John Crown: I ask for an urgent debate on the topical issue of the need for a bank inquiry, its terms of reference and timelines.

Seanad: Order of Business (25 Jun 2013)

John Crown: Yes.

Seanad: Order of Business (25 Jun 2013)

John Crown: -----if we have an inquiry, whether we can subpoena Mr. Trichet and the members of the European Central Bank? Can we get the equivalent of a freedom of information request to the ECB to get all of their documents because we need to know what they knew about the true state of the Irish banks and whether they brought pressure to bear on our Minister and Government at the time to undertake a...

Seanad: Order of Business (25 Jun 2013)

John Crown: I will preface my request for an amendment to the Order of Business that the Minister for Finance come to the House today and outline not only the timing but the terms of reference of the clearly much-needed banking inquiry, by reminding colleagues of one or two facts. Recently we spoke about drugs for malignant melanoma and we estimated treating every patient in the country would cost...

Seanad: Order of Business (25 Jun 2013)

John Crown: I have called for a debate today. I compliment good Leitrim man Paul Williams for unearthing the story. Why did it take five years?

Seanad: Order of Business (25 Jun 2013)

John Crown: If everybody knew these tapes exist why did it take five years? We heard statements from senior Government officials stating they did not even know the tapes existed. We need an inquiry. The reason for my typical quixotic tilting at windmills attempt to have a debate on the subject today is not because I am fixated on the punishment. People may have to be offered degrees of immunity from...

Seanad: Order of Business (20 Jun 2013)

John Crown: I draw the Leader's attention to two related health issues, which I ask that he bring to the attention of the Minister for Health, and to another issue which needs to be discussed. I will start with the third matter. I was unable to contribute to the debate on the HSE report into the Savita Halappanavar tragedy. In this regard, I would like to repeat a point I made a number of months ago....

Seanad: Order of Business (20 Jun 2013)

John Crown: Perhaps things can get crazier, but I do not know how. I ask that the Minister ensure that assessments, which I believe are unnecessary - anybody with a computer can download these assessments which are available internationally - conducted on behalf of the State are used only by the State and are not put into the public domain where they can be used by others to deny treatments. Will the...

Seanad: Public Health (Availability of Defibrillators) Bill 2013: Second Stage [Private Members] (19 Jun 2013)

John Crown: I second this Bill. I concur completely with Senator Quinn's closing sentiment that this is a non-contentious Bill. It is a no-brainer. In years to come people will understand that the need to have defibrillators in places where large numbers of the public congregate or where particular risk activities occur is as acceptable as having a fire exit or a rule against smoking. I have been a...

Seanad: Health (Amendment) Bill 2013: Second Stage (19 Jun 2013)

John Crown: I welcome the Minister of State back to the House. When many of the minor health care reforms such as this, which are coming through the system in preparation hopefully for the big bang of the move to a fully insurance-based system, come up I find myself selectively approving of them through gritted teeth because they increasingly resemble a series of Band-Aids put over the gaping wound...

Seanad: Order of Business (19 Jun 2013)

John Crown: I hate to sound like a broken record because I raised this issue yesterday, but additional information has come to my attention which urgently needs to be brought to the Minister's attention. An approved licensed drug, Ipilimumab, is the first to benefit substantial numbers of patients with a relatively uncommon cancer, malignant melanoma. It is, sadly, one which Ireland has a uniquely...

Seanad: Order of Business (18 Jun 2013)

John Crown: I have an urgent request for the Leader to bring to the attention of the Minister for Health something that has been bubbling under the radar for several weeks, the uneven access to cancer treatments for patients with private health insurance, depending on which company they are with. This causes spin-off problems for the public health service because patients who require particular...

Seanad: Hospital Services: Statements (13 Jun 2013)

John Crown: On a point of information, I am staying.

Seanad: Hospital Services: Statements (13 Jun 2013)

John Crown: I will take a moment to compliment the Minister on the good work he is doing on the Protection of Life during Pregnancy Bill. It has not been an easy passage but the Minister has addressed it while others have neglected it. When the story of these times is told, people will recognise that he has taken a very wise and responsible course. The hospital groups issue is being discussed today and...

Seanad: Order of Business (13 Jun 2013)

John Crown: We will, in the coming weeks, be celebrating the 50th anniversary of President Kennedy's visit to Ireland. Also coming up soon is the 53rd anniversary of the speech President Kennedy made to the Greater Houston Ministerial Association when he was running for the presidency of the United States. He made his speech in September 1960, two months before the election and I wish to quote briefly...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Tackling Childhood Obesity: Discussion (Resumed) (13 Jun 2013)

John Crown: I apologise to Dr. Murphy if I sound reduplicative, but the point she made was so important that it needs to be emphasised. Perhaps some of our colleagues who do not work in the health service might have missed the nuance of it. There is no statutory funding available for the provision of the obesity service at Temple Street hospital. It was set up completely through voluntary fundraising...

Seanad: Diesel Laundering: Statements (23 May 2013)

John Crown: I will probably be ruled out of order and asked to sit down because I will stray from the issue. The issue before us today relates to laundering and smuggling. A much more important issue relating to smuggling was apparently discussed at a meeting of three of our senior Ministers, including the Taoiseach, on 7 May with three representatives of the tobacco industry. The story came out in...

Seanad: Diesel Laundering: Statements (23 May 2013)

John Crown: It is clearly inappropriate and we will need explanations in coming days as to how this was allowed to happen.