Results 181-200 of 1,253 for speaker:John Crown
- Seanad: Order of Business (17 May 2012)
John Crown: The question related to the advisability of mandatory retirement, not to the rehiring.
- Seanad: Order of Business. (6 Jun 2012)
John Crown: As we are now more than a year into the term of the Government, I ask the Leader to consider scheduling in the near future a formal broadly based debate on the fundamentals of health policy reform. This should not be another of the very worthy but piecemeal debates we have had on individual pieces of legislation, which could be broadly construed as part of an overall agenda for reform, but I...
- Seanad: Seanad Reform: Motion (20 Jun 2012)
John Crown: I wish to share two minutes of my time with Senator Rónán Mullen.
- Seanad: Seanad Reform: Motion (20 Jun 2012)
John Crown: I have tried to think of a good analogy for the facial appearance of the Minister of State and his predecessor here this afternoon. The best that I can think of is that they seem about as enthusiastic as the fraternal delegate from the Taliban going to a women's political association meeting.
- Seanad: Seanad Reform: Motion (20 Jun 2012)
John Crown: It would be, yes.
- Seanad: Seanad Reform: Motion (20 Jun 2012)
John Crown: In general, yes. Please do not take it personally.
- Seanad: Seanad Reform: Motion (20 Jun 2012)
John Crown: I understand the circumstance in which they have found themselves press-ganged into a duty that they evidently find - I won't say distasteful - somewhat down the list of priorities for what had been their planned activities for today. It is well known that when I ran for the Seanad a year ago-----
- Seanad: Seanad Reform: Motion (20 Jun 2012)
John Crown: Okay. There are many things I do not like either but that is just the way it is.
- Seanad: Seanad Reform: Motion (20 Jun 2012)
John Crown: I thank the Minister of State. However, I stand by my comments. When I ran for the Seanad a year ago I stated that I would never run again for it as currently constituted. There is a very strong case to be made for either its abolition or reform. My three complaints about the Seanad are that it is undemocratic. It has introduced an electoral cast system into the country where some...
- Seanad: Seanad Reform: Motion (20 Jun 2012)
John Crown: The most critical component of the constitution of any country is how it elects its national parliament. If we are having a constitutional convention and it deals with issues which some would see as relatively trivial and insubstantial in direct comparison to the actual Constitution of the national Parliament, one has to say there is something severely wrong with the democratic process. I...
- Seanad: Order of Business (26 Jun 2012)
John Crown: Perhaps the Leader would bring the following comments to the attention of the Minister for Health. First, I wish to talk about sin. The capital sin in a recession is not the spending of money, it is the wasting of money. A hugely wasteful spend is occurring in our health service right now. Figures emerged last week that showed 350,000 Irish citizens on some type of waiting list for...
- Seanad: Order of Business (3 Jul 2012)
John Crown: I welcome the announcement, reported today, that the State is undertaking that women who were victimised by the implantation of industrial-grade silicon in PIP breast implants will have recourse to it if the companies responsible for inserting the implants cannot be forced to look after them. I encourage the Minister for Health to use all power at his disposal in national and international...
- 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: 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 Ãireann 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.
- Seanad: Access to Cancer Treatment Bill 2012: Second Stage (11 Jul 2012)
John Crown: On another point of information, nowhere in the Bill is there a suggestion patients should not be monitored or should not have access to multidisciplinary care. All of the multidisciplinary planning and consultation in the world is of no good if the recommendation of the multidisciplinary team is that a drug which is not yet available be used in treatment.
- 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?