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Seanad: Radical Seanad Reform Through Legislative Change: Statements (3 Oct 2012)

John Crown: I must declare an interest. When I ran for what has been my one and I suspect only election for Seanad Éireann last year I stated near the beginning of my campaign leaflet that one of my agenda items was the reform or abolition of the currently undemocratic Seanad. That is why I welcome the debate and, unlike Senator Paul Coghlan, I do not think it is premature. The prematurity is, if one...

Seanad: Radical Seanad Reform Through Legislative Change: Statements (3 Oct 2012)

John Crown: The prematurity is predicated on the assumption that we are having a debate because of an imminent referendum that could lead to its abolition. That is the wrong way to look at it. The debate is not premature but post-mature and overdue. We have had a ten-month pregnancy. The discussion should have taken place on many occasions and now that it is, we are left vulnerable to the accusation...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Role and Functions: Discussion with Irish Medicines Board (27 Sep 2012)

John Crown: I would have to say that the IMB has a very good reputation internationally for this aspect of its work in terms of dealing with clinical trials applications expeditiously and efficiently. Ireland is perceived by international academic organisations as being a user-friendly place to do high-quality clinical trials.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Role and Functions: Discussion with Irish Medicines Board (27 Sep 2012)

John Crown: I will make a brief point, more for the information of the committee members than for the IMB witnesses. There are two separate issues I would not like to see get blurred. We as a nation have to look critically at the issue of drug pricing. I am committed, wearing both this hat and my day job hat, to our moving wholesale to generic prescribing. I am very comfortable with generic...

Seanad: Health Service Executive (Governance) Bill 2012: Second Stage (26 Sep 2012)

John Crown: I thank the Minister for his attention and wish him well in the rest of this work. If I have referred to deckchairs on Titanic, this has not been a speech on maritime safety. My remarks last week about a ten-month waiting list for abortions seemed to make people believe that I was actually discussing abortion.

Seanad: Health Service Executive (Governance) Bill 2012: Second Stage (26 Sep 2012)

John Crown: I was asked in public last week whether I would have voted to express confidence in the Minister last weekend had I had the opportunity to do so; I state unambiguously that I would have done so.

Seanad: Health Service Executive (Governance) Bill 2012: Second Stage (26 Sep 2012)

John Crown: The Minister inherited a very difficult job in very difficult circumstances. He set his face into the wind with the reform agenda, which will be difficult to implement. He has and continues to enjoy my confidence. It is appropriate to point out at this stage that the Minister is the fifth, or possibly sixth, Minister under whom I have worked as a doctor in Ireland since 1996. Of the last...

Seanad: Order of Business (25 Sep 2012)

John Crown: I seek, through the Leader, clarification from the Minister for Health on a number of events in the health sector in the past week or two. I am not referring to the widely publicised spat between the Minister for Health and one of his ministerial colleagues. To anyone looking at it objectively, it is wholly predictable when we cobble together coalitions between parties of widely diverse...

Seanad: Developments in the European Union and Ireland's Presidency of the European Council: Statements with An Taoiseach (18 Jul 2012)

John Crown: This son of a Leitrim emigrant who became a taxi driver in New York is honoured to have the opportunity to address the Taoiseach in this House. I ask him to put one big picture item on his agenda for the Presidency, namely, a more fundamental investigation of the real nature of the current economic crisis. It is frequently billed as a purely fiscal or financial crisis involving debt,...

Seanad: Qualifications and Quality Assurance (Education and Training) Bill 2011 [Seanad Bill amended by the Dáil]: Report and Final Stages (11 Jul 2012)

John Crown: I second the amendment. In truth, the fundamental and core need of under-resourced services is increased investment in resourcing, not increased supervisory regulation. This is a solution in need of a problem that does not exist.

Seanad: Access to Cancer Treatment Bill 2012: Second Stage (11 Jul 2012)

John Crown: On a point of information, can the Senator clarify precisely what his research failed to uncover?

Seanad: Access to Cancer Treatment Bill 2012: Second Stage (11 Jul 2012)

John Crown: I am sorry. I could not hear Senator Gilroy.

Seanad: Access to Cancer Treatment Bill 2012: Second Stage (11 Jul 2012)

John Crown: We will be pleased to accept that amendment.

Seanad: Access to Cancer Treatment Bill 2012: Second Stage (11 Jul 2012)

John Crown: On a point of information, has it been confirmed, officially and on the record, that Dr. O'Reilly was responsible for the script?

Seanad: Access to Cancer Treatment Bill 2012: Second Stage (11 Jul 2012)

John Crown: It is a cause for grave concern. If Dr. O'Reilly really believes that the European Medicines Agency approved drugs without due concern for health and safety, there is something very wrong with our democracy.

Seanad: Access to Cancer Treatment Bill 2012: Second Stage (11 Jul 2012)

John Crown: I second the proposal. I welcome the Minister of State, Deputy Kathleen Lynch, to the House on this occasion and thank her for her contributions to the discourse in Seanad Éireann over the past year or so. I commend the Bill across the House as one which was wholly thought of by Senator MacSharry. I acknowledge it as very innovative potential legislation and I acknowledge the fact he has...

Seanad: Access to Cancer Treatment Bill 2012: Second Stage (11 Jul 2012)

John Crown: I love them dearly but one of the better arguments for independence was not being in their health system, to be honest. They have historically had extremely bad access. I am 55 and have been doing oncology for 30 years. Thank God I lived long enough to see the day when the kind of drugs we dreamt about when all we had was chemotherapy are now becoming available, as they are. Let me give...

Seanad: Access to Cancer Treatment Bill 2012: Second Stage (11 Jul 2012)

John Crown: On a point of information, nowhere in the legislation is there a such proposal. With respect, the Minister of State is reading from a script which was written, I am sure, by officials who are not experts and which is full of inaccuracies. I am not trying to be personal about this.

Seanad: Access to Cancer Treatment Bill 2012: Second Stage (11 Jul 2012)

John Crown: I co-sponsored the Bill in a spirit of bipartisanship. I am not a member of a party and, on a personal basis, I am hugely offended by some of the imputations made in the Minister of State's script.

Seanad: Access to Cancer Treatment Bill 2012: Second Stage (11 Jul 2012)

John Crown: Then the Minister of State should throw it away and speak from her conscience.