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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Medical Indemnity Insurance Costs: Discussion (Resumed) (27 Jan 2015)

John Crown: I will leave it at your discretion. If you think my contribution is not worth hearing, I will go now.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Medical Indemnity Insurance Costs: Discussion (Resumed) (27 Jan 2015)

John Crown: If people were prepared to listen a bit more often, we might be in a better position. Thank you.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Medical Indemnity Insurance Costs: Discussion (22 Jan 2015)

John Crown: I also make a disclosure; I am a doctor. It was a real shock for me when I came back in 1993 from New York, which is often considered the medical litigation capital of the world, to find that Ireland, where we had a certain set of prejudices about the perception of doctors in our society and a non-confrontational nature, was at the time third in the world for medical claims, and I believe we...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Medical Indemnity Insurance Costs: Discussion (22 Jan 2015)

John Crown: I am sorry, but I was actually seeing patients at the beginning of the meeting.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Medical Indemnity Insurance Costs: Discussion (22 Jan 2015)

John Crown: I do my best to complete a complex set of responsibilities.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Medical Indemnity Insurance Costs: Discussion (22 Jan 2015)

John Crown: I will leave others to judge if I am grandstanding. Part of the problem of the culture of secrecy in Irish medicine is that when Irish doctors, whose instinct is to be honest when something happens, try to be honest, they are immediately advised by the administrators in the hospital and by the lawyers to shut up. That is what happens. Therefore, the problem regarding the lack of...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Medical Indemnity Insurance Costs: Discussion (22 Jan 2015)

John Crown: I have a question for the State Claims Agency. If this major increase is occurring on the private side, are we seeing it on the public side also? We must assume that for a non-profit organisation like the MPS malpractice premia roughly match payouts, allowing for the fact that it needs to build up a war chest for changes in future years. The State Claims Agency is author of data which...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Medical Indemnity Insurance Costs: Discussion (22 Jan 2015)

John Crown: What about my question about the increase in fees - do they parallel the payouts?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Medical Indemnity Insurance Costs: Discussion (22 Jan 2015)

John Crown: I am sorry, but what did Mr. Breen say?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Medical Indemnity Insurance Costs: Discussion (22 Jan 2015)

John Crown: I asked a very specific question which Mr. Kayll may have skipped. Will he quickly take me through the thought processes that justify why somebody who has had a mixed public-private practice throughout his career and becomes full-time private and may not have any increase in the volume of his workload suddenly finds that his malpractice premium does not go up by a number of percentage points...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Medical Indemnity Insurance Costs: Discussion (22 Jan 2015)

John Crown: Fivefold.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Public Health and Food Safety: European Commissioner for Health and Food Safety (22 Jan 2015)

John Crown: I welcome the Commissioner. I am a fellow doctor. I was reading his interesting career history and commend him for his many professional and personal achievements. I also serve on the public affairs committee of the European Society of Medical Oncology, the group that regulates medical oncology. With other groups with a strong research focus, we are concerned about the potential...

Seanad: HSE National Service Plan 2015: Statements (20 Jan 2015)

John Crown: I welcome the Minister to the House. He has been a refreshing dose of reality and fresh air in the way he has handled commentary about health issues. He has not made unreasonable promises. Clearly, he came in at a time of particular circumstances with respect to the public perception of the health service and in the context of his party's entirely realistic and not extravagant pre-election...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Coping with Challenges of Huntington's Disease: Discussion (15 Jan 2015)

John Crown: Please accept my apologies for not being present at the beginning of the presentation. This is an extraordinarily cruel disease. The word "cruelty" repeatedly springs to mind. It is as if nature conspired to make something about as bad as it can be. One can only imagine the horror of most people on understanding that they have the disease and on seeing their future, both in terms of the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Coping with Challenges of Huntington's Disease: Discussion (15 Jan 2015)

John Crown: Is there a rough sense of how many patients there are in the entirely dependent stage of their management and where institutional care would be a reasonable option for them if home care were not available? Society should make the commitment to ensure someone was not asked to look after a family member without State support. Many of the carers in question may have other dependants at home...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Coping with Challenges of Huntington's Disease: Discussion (15 Jan 2015)

John Crown: Can it be picked up in a blood test prenatally?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Coping with Challenges of Huntington's Disease: Discussion (15 Jan 2015)

John Crown: Is there post-pregnancy prenatal testing?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Coping with Challenges of Huntington's Disease: Discussion (15 Jan 2015)

John Crown: There is CVS, so there is no blood test. One can do blood tests in-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Coping with Challenges of Huntington's Disease: Discussion (15 Jan 2015)

John Crown: Do the witnesses have a position on whether it should be available? Is there a demand? Are patients asking for it?

Seanad: Water Services Bill 2014: Second Stage (Resumed) (18 Dec 2014)

John Crown: After a lot of soul searching I will be opposing the Bill tonight. I have consistently opposed the concept behind the Bill since my earliest days in this House. I am not naive and I know that water costs. I know that everything we do occurs in an economic context. I also know there is an opportunity cost for every euro we spend in the public sector where it is not available somewhere else....