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Seanad: Seanad Electoral Reform Bill 2013: Second Stage (6 Mar 2013)

John Crown: On a point of information, a graduate would have the option either to vote on the relevant university panel or another vocational panel but not to vote on the two.

Seanad: Seanad Electoral Reform Bill 2013: Second Stage (6 Mar 2013)

John Crown: Hear, hear.

Seanad: Seanad Electoral Reform Bill 2013: Order for Second Stage (6 Mar 2013)

John Crown: I move: "That Second Stage be taken now."

Seanad: Seanad Electoral Reform Bill 2013: Second Stage (6 Mar 2013)

John Crown: I move: "That the Bill be now read a Second Time." I am not advancing this Bill because I wish to preserve the Seanad in the face of extinction by way of referendum; rather, I advance it because I wish to offer something better and something we have never had, namely, a truly democratic Chamber that would draw the citizens of the Republic closer to the heart of the parliamentary process....

Seanad: Order of Business (6 Mar 2013)

John Crown: I would like to echo Senator Keane's comments. One of the saddest things I deal with in my day job other than the obvious health consequences of cancer in terms of mortality and morbidity is the possibility of premature infertility. I have seen over the years a large number of patients who, because they were diagnosed with curable cancers that required treatments which would compromise...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Pay and Conditions of Non-Consultant Hospital Doctors: Discussion (5 Mar 2013)

John Crown: It was always the way in Ireland.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Pay and Conditions of Non-Consultant Hospital Doctors: Discussion (5 Mar 2013)

John Crown: I would like to put a brief supplemental question. Over 50% of non-consultant doctors working in Ireland now are not Irish graduates but come from abroad, yet we have the largest number of medical schools per head of population of any country in the world. Why is this? Recently, I heard of an extraordinarily well-trained colleague, with 18 years international experience, multiple...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Pay and Conditions of Non-Consultant Hospital Doctors: Discussion (5 Mar 2013)

John Crown: Go raibh maith agat. I warmly welcome my colleagues. I remember my own days as a trainee doctor, as an NCHD, with a mixture of the odd sleepless night and what it was like to be on call for three or four consecutive nights. I also recall it with a degree of nostalgia about the excitement of first being involved in our wonderful specialty. A couple of weeks ago we had the vote on the Irish...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Pay and Conditions of Non-Consultant Hospital Doctors: Discussion (5 Mar 2013)

John Crown: I was here as well. What is more I went to the hospital where I was working until 10 p.m.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Pay and Conditions of Non-Consultant Hospital Doctors: Discussion (5 Mar 2013)

John Crown: We can compare views later. We are not in a competition right now.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Pay and Conditions of Non-Consultant Hospital Doctors: Discussion (5 Mar 2013)

John Crown: The issue is that this is the every day and every night experience of junior doctors all around the country where they are expected to work like that. They do something far more complicated than doing what a Whip tells them in terms of voting "Yes" or "No". They actually have to make life and death decisions. Deputy Ó Caoláin correctly pointed out the oddity of referring to them...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Health Insurance Levy: Discussion (21 Feb 2013)

John Crown: I have a brief question and another more provocative question. Is is considered to be in breach in the principle of community rating to charge a differential rate based on whether a person currently smokes? It strikes me that it should not be, in the sense that everyone has the right at every age to be a smoker or a non-smoker so there is no breach of community rating in doing that. It...

Seanad: Medical Practitioners (Amendment) Bill 2012: Second Stage (20 Feb 2013)

John Crown: Cuirim fáilte roimh an Aire. I am very supportive of this legislation which has a sort of resonance with some of the issues that have arisen in the context of the abortion debate. We believe the contingency for which we are legislating is extremely rare, thankfully, but that does not mean the necessity for this legislation is invalid. We have an obligation to ensure the bases are covered,...

Seanad: Medical Practitioners (Amendment) Bill 2012: Second Stage (20 Feb 2013)

John Crown: We have to be careful to ensure we do not leave a ticking timebomb for retired individuals who might think the burden has been lifted. There has to be a means of ensuring the insurance provision they responsibly made during their careers gives them adequate coverage after retirement. They should not be asked to pay premiums which are simply not sustainable for people at pension level. This...

Seanad: Houses of the Oireachtas Commission (Amendment) Bill 2012 [Seanad Bill amended by the Dáil]: Report and Final Stages (20 Feb 2013)

John Crown: If I may interject, the funding has come from the Department of Health heretofore, but it has been defunded.

Seanad: Order of Business (20 Feb 2013)

John Crown: I would be grateful if the Leader could get clarification from the Minister for Health on the position of the funding for the Irish Patients Association, a representative group which has been involved in the agitation for patients' rights over the past several years. It has done such good work that it has been internationally recognised with membership on international patient advocacy...

Seanad: Order of Business (20 Feb 2013)

John Crown: I would be grateful if the Leader could get clarification from the Minister for Health on the position of the funding for the Irish Patients Association, a representative group which has been involved in the agitation for patients' rights over the past several years. It has done such good work that it has been internationally recognised with membership on international patient advocacy...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Business of Joint Committee (14 Feb 2013)

John Crown: I would prefer if it was discussed today.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Business of Joint Committee (14 Feb 2013)

John Crown: We were told it was going to be discussed today. We scheduled daily activities around it taking place today.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Tackling Obesity: Discussion with Operation Transformation (14 Feb 2013)

John Crown: Chairman, may I make a point?