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

John Crown: ...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 a DAHR procedure but...

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

John Crown: ...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.”.

Seanad: Health Services: Statements (4 Nov 2014)

John Crown: ...delay caused by what seemed to be an utterly irrelevant intervention on the part of An Bord Pleanála, which seemed to be offended by the fact that the view northward up O'Connell Street would be destroyed by the sight of a wonderful monument to our desire to care for our children being built near the site of what were some of the worst slums in the history of the State. Of course,...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Quarterly Update on Health Issues: Minister for Health (10 Jul 2014)

John Crown: ...of the democratic process. Am I to understand the Minister of State, Deputy White, is to launch a legislative campaign to remove the amendment to protect whistleblowers? This country has been destroyed by its failure to protect whistleblowers in the areas of child care, the economy and so on. Is this the message the Minister of State wishes to send?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Quarterly Update on Health Issues: Discussion with Minister for Health (20 Nov 2012)

John Crown: ...incredible tragedies. They are among the worst deaths that any doctor, nurse of family member would ever have to deal with. It means a totally natural and beautiful phenomenon, childbirth, being destroyed by one and sometimes two deaths. It can be argued that very occasionally one would be prevented by termination of pregnancy. For that reason it could also be argued that we need...

Seanad: Electoral (Amendment) (Political Funding) Bill 2011: Committee Stage (Resumed) (29 Feb 2012)

John Crown: ...Movement of Northern Ireland - the peace women - which, at a time when it was very unfashionable to do so, led the cause for a peaceful alternative to the internecine sectarian strife that was destroying the community. Every one of the organisations mentioned would not be funded under the new legislation. They would effectively be legislated out of existence because they are single...

Seanad: Reporting of Lobbying in Criminal Legal Cases Bill 2011: Second Stage (21 Sep 2011)

John Crown: ...of that. I believe we need a fundamental reform of our rules regarding influence but that is another day's work. Parliamentarians should remember that a number of parliamentary careers have been destroyed by this process, including that of a Minister. Deputies and other Senators have had their reputations called into question and one Supreme Court judge, one Circuit Court judge and...