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

John Crown: I agree with Dr. Orsmond, and there is a strong parallel here with smoking. We would like people not to smoke and as a result of their not smoking we would have fewer cases of lung cancer. However, that would not mean we did not need to provide treatment for people with lung cancer. The reality is that some really established leaders in the fields of diabetology and metabolic medicine say...

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

John Crown: I thank the witnesses for attending. I add my appreciation to the efforts the leaders have made. There is about 20% less of me than there used to be ten years ago so I have some sense of the scope of the struggle that is involved and the ongoing commitment required. Imagine what I would be like if there was 20% more of me. I would be even worse.

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

John Crown: In my day job I am increasingly focused on dietary issues because quite a few patients in my practice who have had breast cancer treatment have survived and are coming back for follow-up visits. The one thing that has emerged in the oncology literature in recent years is that in addition to the other well-recognised health implications of obesity and overweight there is also an increased...

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

John Crown: That is true.

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

John Crown: There was a motion before the committee to introduce a smoke-free campus. We could have been smoke-free for the past two months but an amendment to the motion was proposed so that we would not become smoke-free.

Seanad: Industrial Development (Science Foundation Ireland) (Amendment) Bill 2012: Second Stage (7 Feb 2013)

John Crown: I must declare an interest at the outset. While I derive no income or funds from SFI, I am the leader of a consortium funded by SFI, which will be in receipt of approximately ¤7.5 million worth of research funds over a five-year period. This has enabled us to build a unique nationwide consortium of cancer researchers working together to try to deal with the inconsistencies of a country...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Lung Health Promotion: Discussion with Irish Lung Health Alliance (7 Feb 2013)

John Crown: A quick straw poll of our guests. Would they, in general, be in favour of the idea that the precincts of the national Parliament should be a smoke-free zone both inside and outside?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Lung Health Promotion: Discussion with Irish Lung Health Alliance (7 Feb 2013)

John Crown: Would anybody like to say "No"?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Lung Health Promotion: Discussion with Irish Lung Health Alliance (7 Feb 2013)

John Crown: I ask the witnesses to forgive my ignorance. Is this subcutaneous injection one which people receive as outpatients?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Lung Health Promotion: Discussion with Irish Lung Health Alliance (7 Feb 2013)

John Crown: After the first dose or on a repetitive basis?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Lung Health Promotion: Discussion with Irish Lung Health Alliance (7 Feb 2013)

John Crown: Every time it is taken it is administered in the hospital.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Lung Health Promotion: Discussion with Irish Lung Health Alliance (7 Feb 2013)

John Crown: Evidence shows it decreases the frequency of admission to hospital with complications.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Lung Health Promotion: Discussion with Irish Lung Health Alliance (7 Feb 2013)

John Crown: The problem with the National Centre for Pharmacoeconomics is that I believe it does not take the most nuanced view of the totality of the health care costs associated with a new product when working out how much it costs and I am sick of it. The case one needs to make is that it can decrease resource utilisation, but this case may need to be made to a body other than the National Centre for...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Lung Health Promotion: Discussion with Irish Lung Health Alliance (7 Feb 2013)

John Crown: Is this an oral medication?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Lung Health Promotion: Discussion with Irish Lung Health Alliance (7 Feb 2013)

John Crown: I thank my colleagues and sundry other allies for attending this meeting. It was great to hear their presentations. It is recognised there are disparities in smoking across the socio-educational spectrum. Does Dr. Edward McKone believe there are other factors which determine the disparity of the incidence of lung disease across social groups? How do we stack up in international...

Seanad: Irish Bank Resolution Corporation Bill 2013: Second Stage (6 Feb 2013)

John Crown: All I can say at this hour of the morning is that I hope that poisoned chalice everybody refers to is full of Red Bull. Otherwise, we will have some difficulty getting through the next hour or so. There have been frequent references to how inadvisable it is to have people making critical decisions in the middle of the night. For the record, our junior doctors are one group of people in this...

Seanad: Irish Bank Resolution Corporation Bill 2013: Second Stage (6 Feb 2013)

John Crown: No, we are dealing with another kind of bull. As a doctor, I have patients who will get second opinions. In general, the opinions will point in roughly the same direction. There will be nuanced differences. The extraordinary thing about the world in which I have been living for the last year and a half and in dealing with economists, planners and so forth is the unbelievably, widely...

Seanad: Order of Business (6 Feb 2013)

John Crown: Members of this and the other House have raised issues concerning the recently issued report on the Magdalen laundries. I ask the Leader to try to obtain for me the answer to some very specific questions. I am interested in the financial investigation into the various organisations and the laundries. I refer, in particular, to the evidence to support the assertion that the laundries were...

Seanad: Order of Business (6 Feb 2013)

John Crown: Will the Leader seek clarification from the Minister for Justice and Equality on the procedure involved in choosing the members of the committee? Was there any expert accounting forensic analysis available to the committee or did it simply accept what the orders' accountants gave them at face value?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Independent Study into Ward Staffing Levels: Discussion with INMO (24 Jan 2013)

John Crown: I am off sugar.