Results 81-100 of 1,253 for speaker:John Crown

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: St. James's Hospital, Dublin: Chairman Designate (11 Jun 2015)

John Crown: I apologise for missing the beginning of Mr. Donnelly's presentation. I wish him the very best in his new role. My first oncology job was in St. James's Hospital many years ago and I have a large well of warm and sentimental good feeling about the institution. It is, in the Irish context, a wonderful hospital. While things in Ireland are not great by international standards, the hospital...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Amnesty International Report on Ireland's Abortion Laws: Discussion (9 Jun 2015)

John Crown: I thank the witnesses for attending and for the report. I have a position on abortion that makes everyone maximally unhappy. While it may not have been hijacked, the debate is being driven by people at the two extremes, and a logical, considered, temperate, thoughtful, scientifically informed and unsentimental middle ground has not been allowed to develop. The position that a two-cell,...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Amnesty International Report on Ireland's Abortion Laws: Discussion (9 Jun 2015)

John Crown: While I am open to correction, I do not believe any finding of medical negligence has been made against any doctor with respect to-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Amnesty International Report on Ireland's Abortion Laws: Discussion (9 Jun 2015)

John Crown: ----- Ms Savita Halappanavar. That is very important. I say quite firmly that there has been gross administrative negligence on the part of successive Governments that let this unit be so understaffed and under-resourced in common with all the other obstetric, medical and surgical units throughout the country.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: HIQA Investigation into Midland Regional Hospital, Portlaoise (Resumed): Parents and Patient Advocates (19 May 2015)

John Crown: I extend my sympathy to the bereaved and those who have suffered such terrible losses. I cannot begin to imagine the pain they continue to experience which has been compounded by certain factors which came into play following the deaths of their children. What they have endured is simply horrific. I am terribly sad about the position in which our guests find themselves and I am also...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: HIQA Investigation into Midland Regional Hospital, Portlaoise (Resumed): Parents and Patient Advocates (19 May 2015)

John Crown: It does not appear to relate to any of my material. I do not think it can be my pacemaker. I believe I can give that a few more years. How long do I have? I was told I had six minutes.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: HIQA Investigation into Midland Regional Hospital, Portlaoise (Resumed): Parents and Patient Advocates (19 May 2015)

John Crown: I did not know we had spokespeople. I am sorry. I will finish very quickly. In the case of Neary, responsibility was put onto the individuals who carried out the terrible, awful practice but there was something wrong with a system which allowed somebody to act, effectively single handedly, way beyond their competence and their surgical skills in a hospital which did not have an intensive...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: HIQA Investigation into Midland Regional Hospital, Portlaoise (Resumed): Parents and Patient Advocates (19 May 2015)

John Crown: I would just like to ask-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: HIQA Investigation into Midland Regional Hospital, Portlaoise (Resumed): Parents and Patient Advocates (19 May 2015)

John Crown: I did not get a chance to ask the question the first time.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: HIQA Investigation into Midland Regional Hospital, Portlaoise (Resumed): Parents and Patient Advocates (19 May 2015)

John Crown: My question is for the relatives, whom I am sorry to put on the spot. When they were interacting with professional staff in the hospital and at the critical moments when they believed the problems occurred that led to their tragic loss, approximately how often were they dealing directly with a consultant in a permanent post?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: HIQA Investigation into Midland Regional Hospital, Portlaoise (Resumed): Parents and Patient Advocates (19 May 2015)

John Crown: In most of the visits during the pregnancy.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: HIQA Investigation into Midland Regional Hospital, Portlaoise (Resumed): Parents and Patient Advocates (19 May 2015)

John Crown: I thank Ms Molloy.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: HIQA Investigation into Midland Regional Hospital, Portlaoise (Resumed): Parents and Patient Advocates (19 May 2015)

John Crown: I thank Ms Delahunt.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: HIQA Investigation into Midland Regional Hospital, Portlaoise (Resumed): Parents and Patient Advocates (19 May 2015)

John Crown: We should not have any requirement or need for locums. We should have a sufficiently well-staffed service to enable cover when a staff member becomes ill or is otherwise incapacitated. It is wrong that we have locums in the first place. It is a Band-aid over the problem of under-staffing.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: HIQA Investigation into Midland Regional Hospital, Portlaoise (Resumed): Health Service Executive (19 May 2015)

John Crown: Deputy Healy has kindly yielded. I am very sorry I was not here for Mr. O'Brien's presentation. This is not a day I normally have blocked off for Seanad activities. I am afraid that there are certain parts of the schedule that have become a little inflexible. I thank Deputy Healy for giving his time to me. If any of my ten minutes are left over, I would like to give them back to him. ...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: HIQA Investigation into Midland Regional Hospital, Portlaoise (Resumed): Health Service Executive (19 May 2015)

John Crown: I acknowledge that.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: HIQA Investigation into Midland Regional Hospital, Portlaoise (Resumed): Health Service Executive (19 May 2015)

John Crown: Do you deny that these men and women were Minister for Health?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: HIQA Investigation into Midland Regional Hospital, Portlaoise (Resumed): Health Service Executive (19 May 2015)

John Crown: Mea culpa.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: HIQA Investigation into Midland Regional Hospital, Portlaoise (Resumed): Health Service Executive (19 May 2015)

John Crown: I will not. I withdraw the names, but I believe that, collectively, all Ministers for Health in modern times in the State were asleep at the wheel and allowed this to happen. That is the way the system has evolved; they are the people we picked to do it and it is there responsibility rests. It is also from there that reform will come. I am hopeful the new Minister will actually...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: HIQA Investigation into Midland Regional Hospital, Portlaoise (Resumed): Health Service Executive (19 May 2015)

John Crown: I would gladly give the opportunity to all former Ministers for Health to say the problems in the health system had nothing to do with them. I would be delighted to hear them say this.