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Industrial Development (Science Foundation Ireland) (Amendment) Bill
I must declare an interest at the outset. While I derive no income or funds from SFI, I am the leader of a consortium funded by SFI, which will be in receipt of approximately €7.5 million worth of...
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Irish Patients Association
I would be grateful if the Leader could get clarification from the Minister for Health on the position of the funding for the Irish Patients Association, a representative group which has been involved...
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Magdalen Laundries
Will the Leader get clarification from the Minister for Justice and Equality as to what investigation will take place with regard to potential conflict of interest issues that arise with the Magdalen...
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Medical Practitioners (Amendment) Bill
Legislation to provide for mandatory professional indemnity cover for certain medical practitioners. Cuirim fáilte roimh an Aire. I am very supportive of this legislation which has a sort of resonance...
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Ireland has the worst managed healthcare system in the developed world
While Ireland does not have the worst quality of healthcare, it is run by technically deficient, medically illiterate bureaucrats, says Professor John Crown. What healthcare model should we be looking...
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It is time for change. Seanad reform would be a small first step.
When I ran for election in 2011 I stated that I would campaign for reform or abolition of the currently undemocratic Seanad. This week, I am honouring that commitment by introducing a Seanad reform...
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The need for legal clarity regarding surrogacy
One of the saddest things I deal with in my day job other than the obvious health consequences of cancer in terms of mortality and morbidity is the possibility of premature infertility. I have seen...
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Seanad Electoral Reform Bill
I am not advancing this Bill because I wish to preserve the Seanad in the face of extinction by way of referendum; rather, I advance it because I wish to offer something better and something we have...
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Generic drugs, pharmaceuticals, reform of the health service.
[Speaking on the Health (Alteration of Criteria for Eligibility) Bill 2013] … I speak from the perspective of having worked in the health service. The issue of drugs is deadly simple. The Government...
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Philantrophy and the charitable and not-for-profit sectors
It is appropriate that attention be brought to bear on this sector. I also welcome the fact that the Government will pay some attention to the not-for-profit and charitable sectors, which are somewhat...
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Medical Research -proposed changes to ethical research committees
I request the Leader to consider having a debate on medical and biomedical research, which is a very important sector of the economy. Not only does it increase the standards of science and medicine,...
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Public Health (Tobacco) (Amendment) Bill 2013
I thank the Minister for his continued professional and political attention to the scourge and evils of smoking. I believe he is a committed campaigner toward the goal of making Ireland a tobacco-free...
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EU-proposed changes to clinical trials approval and data protection which...
Speaking during the Address to Seanad Éireann by Nessa Childers, MEP I welcome Ms Childers, who has been a wonderful ambassador for our country in the European Parliament. I speak as a committed...
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EU Regulations regarding clinical trials
Speaking during the Address to Seanad Éireann by Commissioner Máire Geoghegan-Quinn I am involved in clinical research and I am troubled by the track record and future plans of the European Commission...
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Oath of Allegiance to the Constitution
I have an unusual request for the Leader. I would like him to ask the Taoiseach if the Government would consider the wisdom of introducing an oath of allegiance to the Constitution for all Members of...
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Link to my Seanad Reform Bill
http://profjohncrown.files.wordpress.com/2013/03/seanad-electoral-reform-bill-2013.pdf Explanatory memorandum for Seanad Reform Bill
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A thoroughly Irish coup
Not for the first time, an attempt is being made to overthrow and discard our constitutional system of republican government. A cabal of insurrectionists, sympathetic to the agents of a foreign state...
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The need for thoughtfulness
We have a great need for thoughtfulness. Not the type of thoughtfulness that makes you remember your mother’s birthday. A more general form of thoughtfulness, a kind of thoughtfulness which we need to...
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Regulation of Lobbyists
Speaking in the Seanad on the Register of Lobbyists Legislation: motion (Link to text of motion:...
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Calling for a banking inquiry and querying the Magdalene laundries redress...
At the risk of making the Chamber sound like a broken record, I mention issues relating to the banks and attempted to get the Order of Business amended. I am somewhat troubled by the fact that there...
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