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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Delays in the Registration of Nurses and Midwives: Discussion (16 Jul 2015)

John Crown: What was the staff member doing?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Delays in the Registration of Nurses and Midwives: Discussion (16 Jul 2015)

John Crown: It is public relations, then. I thank Dr. Pidgeon.

Seanad: Commencement Matters: Hospital Procedures (15 Jul 2015)

John Crown: Cuirim fáilte roimh an Aire Stáit.I wish to use these few minutes to bring to the Minister of State's attention a very frustrating problem which has arisen in the health service. It relates to a very promising, relatively new but well established technique called transcatheter aortic valve implantation, or TAVI. To put the Minister in the picture, aortic stenosis is a condition in...

Seanad: Commencement Matters: Hospital Procedures (15 Jul 2015)

John Crown: I am very grateful for that. My cardiology colleagues and I will eagerly follow the debate as it evolves. For clarity, I am not advocating more centres or any attenuation or dilution of the numbers coming through.

Seanad: Commencement Matters: Hospital Procedures (15 Jul 2015)

John Crown: We have about the right number of centres now. With Cork semi-officially open, that makes four, which is probably enough, as it has to be linked to places where cardiac surgery is done. The problem is that it is being done in an uncoordinated fashion and without a designated budget. When someone comes from another hospital that does not have a budget for cardiac surgery, he or she has less...

Seanad: Commencement Matters: Hospital Procedures (15 Jul 2015)

John Crown: I would make the point that the Mater and St. Vincent's hospitals are already in the same hospital group.

Seanad: Order of Business (15 Jul 2015)

John Crown: Will Senator Heffernan get a chance to speak or do I need to share a minute with him?

Seanad: Order of Business (15 Jul 2015)

John Crown: I also request that the Minister come in and update us on the transplant situation. Over the past few years, those in charge of transplant policy in the country have felt it has been very unco-ordinated. We have seen other examples of problems in the health service where one critical retirement or one strategically important person going on maternity or ill-health leave has caused chaos in...

Seanad: Transplant Patient Services: Motion (15 Jul 2015)

John Crown: I thank the Minister for coming in at short notice. I know it is difficult. I should mention at the outset that I have a dog in this fight, as they say in the vernacular, because I am a member of staff at St. Vincent's Hospital. In that capacity, I would like to welcome the new unit at the hospital and the new service that will be offered in our institution. I am trying to see beyond that...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: National Drugs Strategy: Minister of State at the Department of Health (9 Jul 2015)

John Crown: I welcome the Minister of State and his officials. I really wish the Minister of State well. This is perhaps the greatest example of a situation where we need first thinking. This is a classical example of society, and not just Irish society, looking at something in a certain way for 50 or 60 years, seeing the evidence stacking up, ceiling high, that what we are doing is wrong but...

Seanad: Report of Working Group on Seanad Reform 2015: Statements (8 Jul 2015)

John Crown: I welcome my two esteemed colleagues and thank them for the great work they have done in a spirt of public service. Any departures I might have from the consensus that may have existed within its group about its recommendations should not construed as anything less than fully appreciative of the efforts they have made. I came in here last week and spoke on a different issue in which I quoted...

Seanad: Harmful and Malicious Electronic Communications Bill 2015: Second Stage [Private Members] (1 Jul 2015)

John Crown: While I respect the sentiments which have motivated the Bill, I must, with regret, oppose it because we do not have a first amendment in Ireland. If we did, I would be a first amendment hawk. Free speech is the cornerstone of any democratic society. Any law which has within it the potential to undermine free speech, a law which, when crafted by well-meaning people like Senator Higgins,...

Seanad: Harmful and Malicious Electronic Communications Bill 2015: Second Stage [Private Members] (1 Jul 2015)

John Crown: Although it has been suggested that I should stick to medicine, and perhaps it is because of that occupation that I am unfamiliar with the relevant Standing Order-----

Seanad: Harmful and Malicious Electronic Communications Bill 2015: Second Stage [Private Members] (1 Jul 2015)

John Crown: Under the relevant Standing Order, I request that the division be taken again other than by electronic means.

Seanad: Harmful and Malicious Electronic Communications Bill 2015: Second Stage [Private Members] (1 Jul 2015)

John Crown: Yes.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Pre-Pregnancy Folic Acid Supplementation: Discussion (25 Jun 2015)

John Crown: I was trying to find out what was the first paper from Ireland on the issue of FA and neural tube defects because a lot of research was done on this here by Professor Weir and Dr. Scott. Ireland has contributed significantly to this area. I am delighted to see such high quality publications from Professor Turner and others in this area. I thank Professor Turner. This is very important....

Seanad: Tackling Obesity in Ireland: Statements (17 Jun 2015)

John Crown: I welcome the Minister and I am sorry I was not in the House for his opening address. I welcome the priority he and the Government will give to this problem. Many of his medical school classmates, younger women and men than me, will be spending long careers dealing with the consequences if we do not tackle this problem now. There has been an incredible explosion in knowledge about the true...

Seanad: Tackling Obesity in Ireland: Statements (17 Jun 2015)

John Crown: I beg the indulgence of the Minister. I wish to make another point. I do not think it would undermine the principles of community rating if we put a policy of incentives in place regarding private health premiums to incentivise healthy behaviours and lifestyles. Somebody cannot choose not to be old, therefore we as a community decide to rate them in the same way as we rate young people for...

Seanad: Order of Business (11 Jun 2015)

John Crown: I will give some good and some bad news and in the process ask the Deputy Leader and the representatives of the Government parties to communicate to the Minister for Health and possibly to schedule a debate in this Chamber on an issue that has become a low-level national emergency. I will give the bad news first on this beautiful sunny summer's day. The incidence of malignant melanoma in...

Seanad: Health (General Practitioner Service) Bill 2015: Second Stage (11 Jun 2015)

John Crown: I welcome the extension of the provisions to the over-70s. It is overdue and while it is, as the Minister of State has said, a step along the road, it is a very long road and a lot needs to be done. I am not happy that the basic tenet on which the Government was elected, namely fundamental reform of the health service, is not being honoured. I do not wish the Minister of State to take that...