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

John Crown: I wish to raise a matter in private session.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Implementation of Government Decision Following Expert Group Report into Matters Relating to A, B and C v. Ireland (10 Jan 2013)

John Crown: I thank our guests. I will repeat my question of this morning. When we questioned our colleagues from the maternity hospitals, it appeared that there are probably 30 abortions per year at present carried out where there are unambiguous grounds based on a risk to the life, rather than the health, of the mother. The consensus among our colleagues was that no cases have been missed. They...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Implementation of Government Decision Following Expert Group Report into Matters Relating to A, B and C v. Ireland (10 Jan 2013)

John Crown: I beg the indulgence of the visitors, and I will speak while sitting as I am a little too tall for the microphone. I have a number of rather focused questions and wish to direct them to Dr. Jones and Father Bartlett. We do not have exact figures, but it appears approximately 30 terminations of pregnancy are conducted annually in Ireland for reasons of threat to the life of the mother. It...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Implementation of Government Decision Following Expert Group Report into Matters Relating to A, B and C v. Ireland (9 Jan 2013)

John Crown: To put the record straight, it was 30 seconds of effort.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Implementation of Government Decision Following Expert Group Report into Matters Relating to A, B and C v. Ireland (9 Jan 2013)

John Crown: It has been submitted. The death certificate has not been issued in this case yet.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Implementation of Government Decision Following Expert Group Report into Matters Relating to A, B and C v. Ireland (9 Jan 2013)

John Crown: I am delighted to have the honour of sharing this Chamber today with two such distinguished people whose very sincerely beliefs I respect. I have a few questions for Professor Binchy. The five minute walk he referred to with respect to the National Maternity Hospital was taken yesterday in the opposite direction by people who came here and told us what they wanted at the end of that walk:...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Implementation of Government Decision Following Expert Group Report into Matters Relating to A, B and C v. Ireland (9 Jan 2013)

John Crown: The Irish Council for Civil Liberties should understand that I come from this with no particular ideological baggage. My own position is that an early embryo does not have the rights of a person and that many foetuses that are legally aborted in otherwise civilised countries, and in the United Kingdom, are, in fact, humans who are being deprived of their right to personhood, a process which,...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Implementation of Government Decision Following Expert Group Report into Matters Relating to A, B and C v. Ireland (9 Jan 2013)

John Crown: I request that we go into private session briefly.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Implementation of Government Decision Following Expert Group Report into Matters Relating to A, B and C v. Ireland (9 Jan 2013)

John Crown: I am making a request and it is in the Chairman's gift to grant it.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Implementation of Government Decision Following Expert Group Report into Matters Relating to A, B and C v. Ireland (9 Jan 2013)

John Crown: I thank the witnesses for coming in. These have been clear and informative presentations. There are two related issues which cannot be seen outside the context our health service, namely, the necessity for the provision of short-cutting the approval process for a termination when an emergency arises and the question of conscientious objection. Both issues appear to presuppose the notion...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Implementation of Government Decision Following Expert Group Report into Matters Relating to A, B and C v. Ireland (8 Jan 2013)

John Crown: I have a series of short questions for Professor Greene, for the benefit of my colleagues who do not have a background in interpretation of medical and epidemiological statistics. Will he elucidate the difficulties which occur in attempting to draw conclusions statistically when one is dealing with such small numbers? Several statements have appeared in the lay media suggesting that one...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Implementation of Government Decision Following Expert Group Report into Matters Relating to A, B and C v. Ireland (8 Jan 2013)

John Crown: I will try not to stray into other areas but the association does provide post-abortion counselling services. Will the witnesses clarify how in the event of a legal change it would police the medical veracity of what is said to clients attending their clinics?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Implementation of Government Decision Following Expert Group Report into Matters Relating to A, B and C v. Ireland (8 Jan 2013)

John Crown: I hope the delegates will not assume any disrespect by my remaining seated. It seems I am too tall for the microphone. I have several questions for Professor Casey. I accept her evidence that suicide in pregnancy is rare as extremely credible and entirely within her professional competence. Her statement that there is a lack of evidence that abortion will ever end a suicidal tendency in a...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Implementation of Government Decision Following Expert Group Report into Matters Relating to A, B and C v. Ireland (8 Jan 2013)

John Crown: I respect her opinion on matters related to psychiatry, but she has strayed outside that area of competence to comment on a broader social policy which is more relevant to her other affiliation.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Implementation of Government Decision Following Expert Group Report into Matters Relating to A, B and C v. Ireland (8 Jan 2013)

John Crown: We have already established that when I stand up, the microphone does not work, so please do not see any disrespect if I ask my questions from a sitting position. I first want to thank the witnesses and, not only that, but also to commend them. They have made me a little prouder to be a doctor today. There was great clarity, honesty and conviction in what they said, and I consider this is...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Implementation of Government Decision Following Expert Group Report into Matters Relating to A, B and C v. Ireland (8 Jan 2013)

John Crown: My questions have not been addressed. I specifically asked Professor Kieran Murphy if he believed the situation at present provides clarity or does it need to be addressed. Second, Professor Murphy said that the council exists to protect the public. It does, and in the interests of public protection he must answer my second question, which I believe he skipped. Did the council deliver any...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Implementation of Government Decision Following Expert Group Report into Matters Relating to A, B and C v. Ireland (8 Jan 2013)

John Crown: If the Chairman does not mind, I will sit down. Obviously, the microphones were designed for shorter parliamentarians.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Implementation of Government Decision Following Expert Group Report into Matters Relating to A, B and C v. Ireland (8 Jan 2013)

John Crown: Indeed. Is the current situation adequately regulated? Is there a clear and present need for legislation? The argument that we do not need legislation has been advanced. My second point is more contentious and I will understand if Professor Murphy's answer is somewhat nuanced. Over the years, those of us in our profession who have watched Medical Council elections have been aware of...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Implementation of Government Decision Following Expert Group Report into Matters Relating to A, B and C v. Ireland (8 Jan 2013)

John Crown: I thank my colleagues from the Medical Council for coming before the committee. First, will Professor Murphy provide a "Yes" or "No" to the question of whether he believes that the current situation, in which our practices are guided by the Constitution as determined by the will of the people in referenda and by the courts as opposed to through legislation, provides an adequate framework for...

Seanad: Order of Business (20 Dec 2012)

John Crown: I extend season's greetings to my colleagues and the staff in Leinster House. There is one matter I did not have a chance to raise on the Order of Business although I alluded to it when the Minister for Health was present. I would like the Leader to get formal clarification from the Minister for Health of the status of public patients in hospital who do not have medical cards. To my shame...