Results 1-20 of 1,253 for speaker:John Crown
- Seanad: Order of Business (27 Jan 2016)
John Crown: As we come close to the end of term, I have a particular bee in my bonnet which, as the House knows, in the past five years has been veritably buzzing with bees most of the time. I refer to Members who introduce legislation, Private Members' Bills or otherwise, which appears on the Order Paper and then appears to die. The purpose in introducing Bills is that they will become law at some...
- Seanad: Order of Business (27 Jan 2016)
John Crown: On a point of clarification, is Senator Lorraine Higgins in the building?
- Seanad: Order of Business (27 Jan 2016)
John Crown: Yes. One cannot have it both ways. It is the Government's Bill and if the Senators think it is important to pass it into law then I say votáil.
- Seanad: Order of Business (27 Jan 2016)
John Crown: Amendment put.
- Seanad: Order of Business (27 Jan 2016)
John Crown: Enjoying as I am the spectacle of watching Government Members oppose their own Bill, like Frank Underwood, I am going to ask for a walk through vote. Under Standing Order 62(3)(b), I request the division be taken again other than by electronic means.
- Seanad: Order of Business (21 Jan 2016)
John Crown: I was somewhat inspired when I heard the interplay between the Fianna Fáil and Fine Gael Senators on various issues, including the national anthem. I kept thinking that perhaps we should entitle today's proceedings "Civil War: The Musical". On a very serious note, it is probably a well-known fact at this stage that I am unlikely to run for this House again. In reflecting on the five...
- Seanad: Order of Business (21 Jan 2016)
John Crown: I propose an amendment to the Order of Business that the Minister for Health would come to the House to discuss the emergency in Cork.
- Seanad: Order of Business (21 Jan 2016)
John Crown: Senator Bacik was a Government Senator.
- Seanad: Order of Business (21 Jan 2016)
John Crown: Tá sé.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Health Products Regulatory Authority: Chairman Designate (21 Jan 2016)
John Crown: I also welcome Ms Horan to her critically important role. I have been very involved in new drug development and I founded the country’s first national clinical research group so I have had extensive dealings over the years with the Irish Medicines Board, IMB, as it was then, now the HPRA. Over the past decade in general it has conducted its business in a professional fashion. I...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Health Products Regulatory Authority: Chairman Designate (21 Jan 2016)
John Crown: I am not. I am discussing aspects of the curriculum vitae of the person who is here before us today.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Health Products Regulatory Authority: Chairman Designate (21 Jan 2016)
John Crown: That is correct.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Health Products Regulatory Authority: Chairman Designate (21 Jan 2016)
John Crown: You are a bit of a historical revisionist, Chairman. Most people would say the rot in the banking sector began well before 2005. Anyway, we are not going into that.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Health Products Regulatory Authority: Chairman Designate (21 Jan 2016)
John Crown: I wish you would not interrupt me, Chairman. I put in a disclaimer to say there were dissenting voices and there were people who spoke out. The question will be asked. We are not here to be a rubber-stamping body but to offer scrutiny of people who come to public appointments at a time when this kind of public appointment – not Ms Horan’s in particular – but other ones...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Health Products Regulatory Authority: Chairman Designate (21 Jan 2016)
John Crown: I am not attacking the witness. Does Ms Horan feel she needs protection from me?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Health Products Regulatory Authority: Chairman Designate (21 Jan 2016)
John Crown: Deputy Ó Caoláin would have some authority on that one. I am sorry but I did not know Ms Horan was coming in today. I have been wrestling with my own personal bias for the past half an hour since I found out that Ms Horan would be here because there is a great big elephant in my room regarding what was the Irish Medicines Board, IMB, and is now the HPRA. An unbelievable episode...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Health Products Regulatory Authority: Chairman Designate (21 Jan 2016)
John Crown: Ms Horan might also ask Mr. Lynch why I was told I could not have legal representation when he came to do the investigation of the event that I reported, as was my statutory duty, to the Irish Medicines Board in 2002-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Health Products Regulatory Authority: Chairman Designate (21 Jan 2016)
John Crown: -----and exactly what terms of reference he was given and why certain areas were blocked off to the investigation-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Health Products Regulatory Authority: Chairman Designate (21 Jan 2016)
John Crown: -----and others were pursued.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Wellness, Well-being and Mental Health: Discussion (21 Jan 2016)
John Crown: I welcome the witnesses and I thank them. I have different reasons for thanking both of them. In particular I pay much credit to what Dr. D'Alton is doing in developing the field of psycho-oncology in Ireland. It is a critical area. I stated before, and it is very sad, that over my life I have known 11 people who ended their lives through self-harm. Because of the world in which I live...