Results 321-340 of 1,253 for speaker:John Crown
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Concussion in Sport: Discussion (Resumed) (9 Oct 2014)
John Crown: I thank the witnesses for their testimonies. While I am not primarily a rugby fan, over recent years, I have been impressed by the obvious attention the sports organisations, especially rugby, have paid to the safety of players. Apart from motor sports, I guess rugby and equestrian sports were historically the two leading causes of seriously neurologically damaging sports injuries in the...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Concussion in Sport: Discussion (Resumed) (9 Oct 2014)
John Crown: The technique and skill of boxing should be rewarded, not the effect it has on the recipient of the blow. Is Dr. McKeever happy that the game at an international level is putting sufficient effort into having zero tolerance for injuries in the sport?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Concussion in Sport: Discussion (Resumed) (9 Oct 2014)
John Crown: I know. Most games are won on points and it is very technical and there is electronic scoring. However, is a person is knocked out, he or she loses.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Concussion in Sport: Discussion (Resumed) (9 Oct 2014)
John Crown: That is the point I am making. Boxing is won on points, like politics. However, like politics, if one is knocked out, one is gone.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Concussion in Sport: Discussion (Resumed) (9 Oct 2014)
John Crown: Quote me again.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Concussion in Sport: Discussion (Resumed) (9 Oct 2014)
John Crown: I did not say that, but if-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Concussion in Sport: Discussion (Resumed) (9 Oct 2014)
John Crown: I have tried to have a logical discussion about this.
- Seanad: Order of Business (8 Oct 2014)
John Crown: I understand the Minister for Health will be coming to the House in the coming weeks to address insurance, future strategic plans and waiting lists. I ask that he also brief the House on the state of hopefully unnecessary emergency plans for Ebola in the event that there are additional cases.
- Seanad: Order of Business (Resumed) (7 Oct 2014)
John Crown: I propose an amendment to the Order of Business that the Minister of Health come to the House today to deal with an urgent problem. It was urgent when the Members of this and the other House were elected three years ago and the issue remains unresolved, unmitigated, unpalliated and just as urgent as it was then. It concerns the scandalous state of waiting lists for public patients. I will...
- Seanad: Order of Business (25 Sep 2014)
John Crown: I pay tribute to two extra-parliamentary political figures who have done the right thing in the past two days. Mr. Dale McDermott from Young Fine Gael correctly pointed to the incongruence between the Fine Gael Party's pre-election commitment to political reform which was partially responsible for the party receiving my humble endorsement in the previous general election and the actions of...
- Seanad: Order of Business (25 Sep 2014)
John Crown: I fail to see how it could be out of order to pay tribute to someone. We have paid tribute to all manner of people, from farmers to GAA players to local advocates, throughout the three and a half years I have been a Senator and none of these tributes has ever been ruled out of order. The only thing that appears to be out of order is that it is probably creates an odour for the leadership of...
- Seanad: Medical Practitioners (Amendment) Bill 2014: Second Stage (Resumed) (24 Sep 2014)
John Crown: Hear, hear.
- Seanad: Medical Practitioners (Amendment) Bill 2014: Second Stage (Resumed) (24 Sep 2014)
John Crown: I welcome the Minister. I am very proud that he, as a representative of my profession, is in this high office and I have no doubt that he will bring his well documented and considerable organisational, intellectual and analytical skills to bear on the broad array of problems he faces. I am very taken by the fact that at the outset of the debate six Members of Parliament are present in the...
- Seanad: Order of Business - Order of Business (24 Sep 2014)
John Crown: Yes.
- Seanad: Order of Business - Order of Business (24 Sep 2014)
John Crown: May I ask the Leader to take a question?
- Seanad: Order of Business - Order of Business (24 Sep 2014)
John Crown: It is not a Standing Order. I cannot quote a Standing Order for a point of order, but there is a point of information. I would like to know whether the Leader-----
- Seanad: Order of Business - Order of Business (24 Sep 2014)
John Crown: For the record, my question remains unanswered.
- Seanad: Order of Business - Order of Business (24 Sep 2014)
John Crown: Can I ask the Leader-----
- Seanad: Order of Business - Order of Business (24 Sep 2014)
John Crown: The longer one is in a place such as this, the more grounds one has for cynicism and despondency. As somebody who has consistently for 20 years espoused fundamental reform of our health system, who is prepared to blame successive health Ministers from the Labour Party, Fianna Fáil, the Progressive Democrats and Fine Gael for the problems in our health system, who endorsed the candidacy...
- Seanad: Appointments to Board of Irish Museum of Modern Art: Statements (23 Sep 2014)
John Crown: I cancelled a clinic this evening because of this debate. I asked people to reschedule out of respect for my responsibility to our democracy. This is unconscionable.