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Seanad: Health (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2014: Committee and Remaining Stages (12 Nov 2014)

John Crown: I move amendment No. 5: In page 30, between lines 13 and 14, to insert the following: "41.Subsection (1) of section 18 of the Principal Act is amended by substituting "be set by the Minister" for "be set by the Council".".I welcome the Minister of State and her officials and acknowledge their very active role in the proceedings. There is a tendency for bureaucracies to get bigger, there is a...

Seanad: Health (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2014: Committee and Remaining Stages (12 Nov 2014)

John Crown: I am a democrat at heart.

Seanad: Health (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2014: Committee and Remaining Stages (12 Nov 2014)

John Crown: I am. I would remind the House of those other great examples of modern Irish legislation where similar independence was granted, such as Irish Water. In the spirit of that inspiration I will press the amendment.

Seanad: Health (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2014: Committee and Remaining Stages (12 Nov 2014)

John Crown: I will take a question from the Senator.

Seanad: Health (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2014: Committee and Remaining Stages (12 Nov 2014)

John Crown: It in no way limits the scope of anyone's practice because, by definition, if somebody felt it was outside the scope of his or her practice, he or she would not be referring in the first place. I do not get this argument. There is more than a little whiff of turf to this. It is a simple, minimal amendment that enhances patient safety and hurts nobody. I cannot understand why it is being...

Seanad: Health (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2014: Committee and Remaining Stages (12 Nov 2014)

John Crown: The reason we are imposing it at this stage is that the Bill deals with that specialty. I was not in the Oireachtas when the original legislation was introduced. The ophthalmologists brought this to my attention because, as the Minister of State pointed out, there is a unique professional-client among opticians. Interactions with other specialties follow a professional referral. Somebody...

Seanad: Health (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2014: Committee and Remaining Stages (12 Nov 2014)

John Crown: I thank the various contributors. I had not realised that so many people in this Chamber were such extraordinary experts in the arcane details of the optical specialties. I say well done all round. Much research has gone into this. I remind the Minister of State of two facts. First, it was the Irish College of Ophthalmologists that approached me. It was medical doctors - the people who...

Seanad: Health (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2014: Committee and Remaining Stages (12 Nov 2014)

John Crown: I move amendment No. 4: In page 24, between lines 10 and 11, to insert the following:“81F.Should any person registered by the Optical Registration Board, in the course of an examination, discover a medical condition that would require medical treatment, or arrive at the suspicion that there exists a medical condition that may require treatment, that person shall—(a) inform the...

Seanad: Suicide and Mental Health: Statements (11 Nov 2014)

John Crown: I welcome the Minister of State. I know she takes this problem very seriously and I am grateful to her for giving it such a priority. Earlier, I was going through a mental checklist of people I know who lost their lives, sadly, through self-harm, and I came up with 14 names. These included a few nurses, medical students, doctors and world-famous cancer experts. There were also a couple of...

Seanad: Suicide and Mental Health: Statements (11 Nov 2014)

John Crown: I call for a quorum as this is a very important topic.

Seanad: Order of Business (11 Nov 2014)

John Crown: I ask the Leader to bring to the attention of the Minister for Health, and to consider having a debate on, the promised reform of our health system. It was one of the key planks of Fine Gael and the Labour Party before the last general election and reform would have ended our two-tier health system. Two pieces of evidence illustrate it this week. Data were published over the past 24 hours...

Seanad: Health (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2014: Second Stage (6 Nov 2014)

John Crown: Is the Minister of State referring to the ophthalmologists - the medical doctors - as opposed to the optometrists?

Seanad: Health (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2014: Second Stage (6 Nov 2014)

John Crown: The ophthalmologists are not the ones who are regulated. They are worried about regulation.

Seanad: Health (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2014: Second Stage (6 Nov 2014)

John Crown: I appreciate that.

Seanad: Health (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2014: Second Stage (6 Nov 2014)

John Crown: We need to know now so that we can submit amendments on Committee Stage.

Seanad: Health (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2014: Second Stage (6 Nov 2014)

John Crown: I thank the Minister of State.

Seanad: Health (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2014: Second Stage (6 Nov 2014)

John Crown: I welcome the Minister of State, Deputy Kathleen Lynch. During her tenure in health, she has been one of the most productive Ministers with whom to do business and I thank her for all her efforts. I broadly welcome the Bill. There clearly is a need for an enhanced degree of scrutiny, regulation, oversight and professional input into the regulation of those various incredibly critical...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Deep Brain Stimulation Treatment: Discussion (6 Nov 2014)

John Crown: I welcome our guests. I am sorry I did not hear their presentations. There is a great logic to trying to undertake several initiatives on an all-island basis. I will be a little partisan. I want to ensure we have not been put on too much of a long finger in the South by the authorities in the HSE. I would have guessed from what the deputations have stated that, in truth, the...

Seanad: Order of Business (6 Nov 2014)

John Crown: It is timely that we would ask the relevant Minister, who, in truth, would probably be the Taoiseach, to come to the House at some stage for a broad-ranging debate on political reform. At the time of the Seanad referendum last year substantial and welcome attention was paid not only to the need to reform this House, but a broader debate on political reform. We have been promised by the...

Seanad: Order of Business (6 Nov 2014)

John Crown: Hear, hear.