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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Heads of Protection of Life during Pregnancy Bill 2013: Public Hearings (17 May 2013)

John Crown: On a point of order, what about me?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Heads of Protection of Life during Pregnancy Bill 2013: Public Hearings (17 May 2013)

John Crown: I welcome our colleagues. It has been a long, gruelling day. We have a couple more ahead of us and it is great that we have heard such a spectrum of opinions. I must give a slight preamble before the question.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Heads of Protection of Life during Pregnancy Bill 2013: Public Hearings (17 May 2013)

John Crown: I must. Sometimes my colleagues here miss one point, which is that in western countries maternal mortality is an extraordinarily rare event. In Ireland in recent decades we have had entire years with no maternal mortality. The occurrence of one maternal mortality is a disaster. If we have to legislate to prevent one maternal mortality, we should do it. This is not like cancer or heart...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Heads of Protection of Life during Pregnancy Bill 2013: Public Hearings (17 May 2013)

John Crown: One second, Chairman. I have not interrupted anybody today and I have tried to stay within my time, so just hear me out. My understanding is that in the great majority of cases there will be warning, so the scenario of this type of occurrence occurring in one of the smaller hospitals is very unlikely because the hospitals will generally refer the patients to one of the larger, specialist...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Heads of Protection of Life during Pregnancy Bill 2013: Public Hearings (17 May 2013)

John Crown: Hearing politicians lecturing specialist doctors about following evidence-based guidelines was one of the most eye-rubbing, incomprehensible moments I have experienced since I came to Leinster House.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Heads of Protection of Life during Pregnancy Bill 2013: Public Hearings (17 May 2013)

John Crown: I am sorry about that. Let me point to a little bit of evidence to which, I am glad, my friend and colleague, Dr. Boylan, has already alluded. The figures are that Ireland has 2.4 obstetricians per hundred thousand members of the population while the figure for the second lowest-rated country in Europe, the Netherlands, is four, which is twice as high. The Netherlands has a birth rate of...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Heads of Protection of Life during Pregnancy Bill 2013: Public Hearings (17 May 2013)

John Crown: I have been very careful about not interrupting. I am desperately fond of Senator Walsh as a person but his behaviour today has not been edifying. I am sorry to have to say that. He has been repeatedly rude today.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Heads of Protection of Life during Pregnancy Bill 2013: Public Hearings (17 May 2013)

John Crown: I ask Dr. Coulter-Smith and my other colleagues to clarify that they are satisfied that in the very rare and probably never-to-arise event of an abortion being recommended on grounds of suicidality, it would be done by people who are actually aware of the evidence base of medicine and who would assess the matter and reach a unanimous consensus.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Heads of Protection of Life during Pregnancy Bill 2013: Public Hearings (17 May 2013)

John Crown: In the legally ambiguous landscape of Irish abortion law, where our Constitution, as interpreted by our Supreme Court at least once and by our people five times in referendums, is in direct conflict with our Statute Book, we have heard testimony here in the January hearings that Irish doctors will perform abortions where the life of the mother is threatened and where the only safeguard for...

Seanad: Order of Business (16 May 2013)

John Crown: Obviously, substantial attention has been paid to the issue of breast cancer genetics in recent days. I would like the Leader to bring to the attention of the Minister for Health the current circumstances that pertain with respect to genetic testing for patients in Ireland. Most breast cancers are not genetic. A small minority of breast cancer cases are caused by well recognised genes...

Seanad: Seanad Bill 2013: Second Stage (15 May 2013)

John Crown: I am happy to bring this Bill to the next Stage.

Seanad: Seanad Bill 2013: Second Stage (15 May 2013)

John Crown: I lend my support to the Bill and commend Senators Katherine Zappone and Feargal Quinn and their background staff for contributing to the debate. I also thank Senators for their kind words on the other Bill on the Order Paper. The legislation advances the call for a mature debate on the future of the Seanad before the referendum is held in October. At least we will have theoretical...

Seanad: Order of Business (9 May 2013)

John Crown: I have an unusual request for the Leader. I would like him to ask the Taoiseach if the Government would consider the wisdom of introducing an oath of allegiance to the Constitution for all Members of the Oireachtas. We must be one of the few parliaments in the world that does not have such an oath. We have a tradition of having large numbers of people in this country who did not respect...

Seanad: Address to Seanad Éireann by Commissioner Máire Geoghegan-Quinn (8 May 2013)

John Crown: I welcome the Commissioner to the House. I am involved in clinical research and I am troubled by the track record and future plans of the European Commission in this field. In 2001, the European clinical trials directive was put in place that was widely seen by those in the field as a disaster. It achieved one goal, and one goal only - harmonisation. I am not a eurosceptic, I am a...

Seanad: Order of Business (2 May 2013)

John Crown: Can the Senator identify which cigarettes are not dangerous?

Seanad: Address to Seanad Éireann by Ms Nessa Childers, MEP (1 May 2013)

John Crown: I welcome Ms Childers, who has been a wonderful ambassador for our country in the European Parliament. I speak as a committed European and, in many ways, as an anti-nationalist with a small "n". I have this theory that, in 50 or 100 years time, people will look on the concept of nationalism in a somewhat similar way to the way they look on the concept of racism now. I do not necessarily...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Organ Donation: Discussion (Resumed) (25 Apr 2013)

John Crown: Yes.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Organ Donation: Discussion (Resumed) (25 Apr 2013)

John Crown: Is it correct that under a regime of presumed consent, the doctors involved would not necessarily go over the firmly expressed opinions of the relatives if they said they would not allow donation? People may think this is a recipe for contention between medical staff and families involved, when it is not.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Organ Donation: Discussion (Resumed) (25 Apr 2013)

John Crown: I welcome my fellow professional colleagues here today. Their illustrative, illuminating, educational, informative and humane presentations have gone to the heart of some of the most difficult interactions that doctors have with patients and their families. It is not all that long ago that I used to find myself occasionally having this conversation with relatives. It is one of the most...

Seanad: Public Health (Tobacco) (Amendment) Bill 2013: Second Stage (18 Apr 2013)

John Crown: Ba mhaith liom trí noimead a thabhairt don Seanadóir Norris.