Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Tuesday, 23 April 2024
Joint Committee On Children, Equality, Disability, Integration And Youth
Ireland's International Obligations under the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child: Discussion
3:00 pm
Tom Clonan (Independent)
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First, I apologise for not being here for the opening statements. I was caught in the Order of Business on a matter that is not far removed from what we are discussing here. I also welcome Dr. Niall Muldoon, whom I have never met, but I thank him for all his powerful advocacy in the area of disability rights for children. As a parent and a carer, I really appreciate it.
I must confess that I was a primary school teacher in a previous life back in the 1980s. I had 37 children in the class-----