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Seanad: Children and Family Relationships Bill 2015: Committee Stage (26 Mar 2015)

John Crown: I move amendment No. 32: In page 29, lines 16 to 19, to delete all words from and including “, and” in line 16 down to and including “donor” in line 19.

Seanad: Children and Family Relationships Bill 2015: Committee Stage (26 Mar 2015)

John Crown: I move amendment No. 33: In page 29, line 29, after “formed” to insert “if the donor gives consent for this to occur”.

Seanad: Children and Family Relationships Bill 2015: Committee Stage (26 Mar 2015)

John Crown: I move amendment No. 34: In page 29, lines 35 to 38, to delete all words from and including “procedure,” in line 35 down to and including line 38 and substitute the following:“procedure.”.I shall not delay because I am pretty convinced at this stage that no amendments will be accepted. The purpose of this section is to try to clean up some of the problems which...

Seanad: Children and Family Relationships Bill 2015: Committee Stage (26 Mar 2015)

John Crown: What happens if I am right and they are all wrong? What happens if sperm donations pretty much end and we do not have a pool of legally registered non-anonymous donors providing sperm for people whose only recourse and opportunity for pregnancy is artificial insemination by donor? What happens if there is no supply? What if somebody comes to me crying their eyes out because I have made...

Seanad: Children and Family Relationships Bill 2015: Committee Stage (26 Mar 2015)

John Crown: The amendment looks as though it is becoming punitive at this stage. It does not look like an attempt to construct reasonable social policy. I urge Senator Mullen to reconsider his amendment and to think through its implications. I know he is a thoughtful and compassionate person. I ask him to think this matter through. I happen to believe that I am right and they are wrong about what is...

Seanad: Children and Family Relationships Bill 2015: Committee Stage (26 Mar 2015)

John Crown: I move amendment No. 38: In page 31, lines 17 to 26, to delete all words from and including "with" in line 17 down to and including line 26 and substitute the following:"with the information referred to under subsection (3) where the procedure has resulted in the pregnancy of the intending mother, the date on which the intending mother is expected to give birth or, where applicable, the...

Seanad: Children and Family Relationships Bill 2015: Committee Stage (26 Mar 2015)

John Crown: My esteemed and learned colleague has not misunderstood me. With great respect, perhaps I misunderstood the implications of the Bill.

Seanad: Children and Family Relationships Bill 2015: Committee Stage (26 Mar 2015)

John Crown: I will await the Minister's clarification.

Seanad: Children and Family Relationships Bill 2015: Committee Stage (26 Mar 2015)

John Crown: With respect, I understand the intention. My concern is in relation to the implementation. These data are not anonymised, such that if the pregnancy does not occur or proceed successfully, there is no child who has a right to those data. I am not sure why data, which are essentially maternal data or data of the couple, are being collected when there is no possible benefit to anybody else...

Seanad: Children and Family Relationships Bill 2015: Committee Stage (26 Mar 2015)

John Crown: That would be a different form of data collection, of the type undertaken in registries for research purposes. In this instance, this is notification of what a specific person had done, which becomes utterly irrelevant if there is not a living child resulting from it. While I do in general trust the integrity of the data systems of our public systems, there have been occasions when they...

Seanad: Children and Family Relationships Bill 2015: Committee Stage (26 Mar 2015)

John Crown: My amendment is related to the previous amendment which I suggested. This amendment would ensure that information that pertains to failed attempts at fertility treatments, such as miscarriages or perhaps terminations, is destroyed. The argument is the same as for the previous amendment but it provides for the fact that the Minister has been notified about a pregnancy that was as a result of...

Seanad: Children and Family Relationships Bill 2015: Committee Stage (26 Mar 2015)

John Crown: I move amendment No. 42: In page 35, between lines 18 and 19, to insert the following: “(5) Where a DAHR procedure has not resulted in a live birth, and information has been provided to the Minister under section 28, then the Minister shall ensure that records pertaining to this DAHR treatment are destroyed.”.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Drug Addiction and Recovery Models: Discussion (26 Mar 2015)

John Crown: What is crazy?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Drug Addiction and Recovery Models: Discussion (26 Mar 2015)

John Crown: I apologise that I was not present for the beginning of the presentation. I pay tribute to the great work ongoing in the area of drug rehabilitation and treatment, harm reduction and population safety. When I was elected to the Seanad a few years ago, I set off on a personal series of fact-finding missions. I visited Merchant's Quay, Hyde Park and other treatment centres. Quite a few...

Seanad: An Bille um an gCeathrú Leasú is Tríocha ar an mBunreacht (Comhionannas Pósta) 2015: An Dara Céim - Thirty-fourth Amendment of the Constitution (Marriage Equality) Bill 2015: Second Stage (25 Mar 2015)

John Crown: I thank the Minister for her commitment to meaningful and important social reform legislation and to this amendment. It will enable us to hold our heads high. At the risk of being complacent, I am one of the people who believes the referendum will pass and will pass easily. I do not believe it will be that terribly divisive, as there is a broad national consensus in favour of this equality...

Seanad: Children and Family Relationships Bill 2015: Second Stage (24 Mar 2015)

John Crown: I express my gratitude to the Minister, her officials and her predecessor for tackling this extremely complex issue. This has been a Herculean task. Without trivialising it, in attempting to read the Bill and its explanatory memorandum, I was reminded of the famous remark made by Groucho Marx when he thanked someone for giving him a book explaining Ulysses. He said he now needed somebody...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Cost of Prescription Drugs: Discussion (Resumed) (12 Mar 2015)

John Crown: Before I start, I note that I would like to meet Deputy Ó Caoláin after the meeting to give him my prescription for Atorvastatin. If one of his constituents could pick some up for me, I would be very grateful. One of the underlying realities of pharmaco-economics is that we are working in an increasingly globalised world. We hope that as more harmonisation of drug purchasing...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: General Scheme of Public Health (Alcohol) Bill 2015: (Resumed) Alcohol Research Group (12 Mar 2015)

John Crown: I welcome the witnesses. In my day job I do a bit of biomedical research, and it is very nice to hear a really professional and top-quality research-based presentation in these halls. I have a couple of quick questions. I may have missed the witnesses mentioning the average price of a unit of alcohol purchased in Ireland now. Do we have some idea of the quartiles and what percentage of...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: General Scheme of Public Health (Alcohol) Bill 2015: (Resumed) Alcohol Research Group (12 Mar 2015)

John Crown: What is Mr. Angus's guesstimate? What is the median cost of the unit?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: General Scheme of Public Health (Alcohol) Bill 2015: (Resumed) Alcohol Research Group (12 Mar 2015)

John Crown: Having heard this compelling evidence, I believe some or all of the increase in revenue which is generated for someone by unit pricing should be taken into the public Exchequer and used for research. I also believe that we will have in Ireland a near unique opportunity to do original research but also to confirm the Canadian research if we do this. We should set about doing this...