Results 341-360 of 1,253 for speaker:John Crown

Seanad: Appointments to Board of Irish Museum of Modern Art: Statements (23 Sep 2014)

John Crown: It is the Cathaoirleach's decision.

Seanad: Education (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2014: Second Stage (23 Sep 2014)

John Crown: I will shamelessly take the opportunity of having the Minister held captive in the Chamber to make a cri de coeurto her in her new capacity as Minister for Education and Skills to seriously examine the structure and number of medical schools in the Republic. To give some background information, in recent years the medical profession in Ireland has done a good job in persuading the rest of...

Seanad: Order of Business (18 Sep 2014)

John Crown: I am sorry to interrupt the combined history lesson and party political broadcast we have seen this morning. I will make a happy announcement to the House. In San Francisco two days ago, Dr. Pierre Thirion, acting on behalf of the Ireland Co-operative Clinical Oncology Research Group, presented a paper selected for the very top presentation at the American Society for Radiation Oncology,...

Seanad: Order of Business (17 Sep 2014)

John Crown: Yes.

Seanad: Order of Business (17 Sep 2014)

John Crown: On a point of information, a more traditional wedding present would also be welcome, but that is fine.

Seanad: Order of Business (17 Sep 2014)

John Crown: A lot happened to me over the summer; I forget what the bell means.

Seanad: Order of Business (17 Sep 2014)

John Crown: I am more used to taking orders now. When a Government stuffs a letter into every post box in a constituency stating that a hospital service will not be closed but then goes ahead and does it within the first six months of assuming office, and when it comes in here and states that one of the five key points of its policy is that it will bring in universal health insurance and then starts...

Seanad: Order of Business (17 Sep 2014)

John Crown: To show my docile temperament I will sit down but I propose an amendment to the Order of Business that the Minister for Health, Deputy Varadkar, would come into the House today to outline, first, the sequence of events in the Department which led to the decision being made that this was not feasible in the short term or at all and, second, his intentions to introduce it.

Seanad: Order of Business (17 Sep 2014)

John Crown: It is good to be back. Clearly, the most important, and from the point of view of the average citizen of the country the most far-reaching, development in politics and public governance over the summer was the announcement that the long-promised cup of health service reform has been dashed from the lips of people campaigning for this reform for many years. I have been campaigning for health...

Seanad: Electoral (Amendment) (No. 4) Bill 2014: Second Stage (17 Jul 2014)

John Crown: The entire other side voted in the wrong space.

Seanad: Electoral (Amendment) (No. 4) Bill 2014: Second Stage (17 Jul 2014)

John Crown: I really warmly welcome the Minister, Deputy Kelly. Minister of State, Deputy Coffey informed us yesterday that the Minister was seriously examining the issue that has arisen with respect to the SSNO grant from the Department of the Environment, Community and Local Government. It was encouraging, cheering and heartwarming to hear this will be considered. Nobody here believes that the...

Seanad: Electoral (Amendment) (No. 4) Bill 2014: Second Stage (17 Jul 2014)

John Crown: I was not. My father had not left Leitrim at that stage to go to New York.

Seanad: Electoral (Amendment) (No. 4) Bill 2014: Second Stage (17 Jul 2014)

John Crown: I do not believe my vote or that of anybody else is blocking the election. The people who are blocking it are those who have not appointed a clerk to the Dáil for the past year.

Seanad: Electoral (Amendment) (No. 4) Bill 2014: Second Stage (17 Jul 2014)

John Crown: This could be fixed on picking up the telephone. No disrespect whatsoever to the office of the Clerk of the Dáil but I strongly suspect the problem has not been finding a suitably qualified person. I do not believe it is a case of finding someone uniquely qualified. It is impossible to escape two conclusions, one being that the problem has not been fixed because of a manifestation of...

Seanad: Adjournment Matters: Voluntary Sector Funding (16 Jul 2014)

John Crown: I thank the Minister of State, whom I am conscious is brand new and has been thrust into the firing line on this issue. I will try to be informative, instructive and collegial in my points. I have the score card that the Neurological Alliance of Ireland received as part of the process. In university scoring system terms, the alliance got honours in capacity, need and achievability and a...

Seanad: Adjournment Matters: Voluntary Sector Funding (16 Jul 2014)

John Crown: I would like the Minister of State to convey my gratitude to the Minister, Deputy Kelly.

Seanad: Adjournment Matters: Voluntary Sector Funding (16 Jul 2014)

John Crown: Cuirim fáilte roimh an Aire Stait. Comhghairdeas. I wish him the best of luck in his new responsibilities. I raise the issue of the defunding of the Neurological Alliance of Ireland which was founded in 1998 by concerned activists and specialists, principally Professor Orla Hardiman. An umbrella group was founded to provide for competency in advocacy in dealing with a group of very...

Seanad: Court of Appeal Bill 2014: Second Stage (16 Jul 2014)

John Crown: The Senator campaigned for "Yes" votes in both referenda.

Seanad: Eye Care: Motion (16 Jul 2014)

John Crown: Hear, hear.

Seanad: Eye Care: Motion (16 Jul 2014)

John Crown: Go raibh maith agat, a Leas-Chathaoirligh. I warmly welcome the Minister to the House. He has been one of the stand-out performers of the current Government. His intervention in an unrelated issue, with respect to the Garda whistleblowers, was one of the single most inspired political interventions I have seen in modern Irish politics. It certainly had great impact and was critically...