Results 41-60 of 1,175 for speaker:Tom Clonan

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Treatment of Rare Diseases: Discussion (15 Oct 2025)

Tom Clonan: I thank Professor Barry.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Treatment of Rare Diseases: Discussion (15 Oct 2025)

Tom Clonan: Professor Barry has been 27 years in his post. It is quite an onerous position in terms of self-care and professional development. Is it healthy for an organisation to have somebody at the helm for 27 years?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Treatment of Rare Diseases: Discussion (15 Oct 2025)

Tom Clonan: I mean personally. In terms of self-care but also in terms of organisational development, it strikes me as being quite unusual.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Treatment of Rare Diseases: Discussion (15 Oct 2025)

Tom Clonan: I did not mean it in that way.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Treatment of Rare Diseases: Discussion (15 Oct 2025)

Tom Clonan: I am just talking about heterogeneity.

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (14 Oct 2025)

Tom Clonan: I wish to mark this occasion by welcoming the release of the remaining hostages to their families in Israel. In this House - with the leadership shown by the Taoiseach and Tánaiste and this Government and that which preceded it - we have had many dark moments recognising the loss of life in Gaza and the ongoing genocide, which has now come to what will hopefully be a permanent halt. At...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (14 Oct 2025)

Tom Clonan: I appreciate that. I have the email from Noel McGree asking me to speak about this on behalf of his family. I appreciate the sensitivity and tragedy of young people losing their family home. Transparency International Ireland recognises that whistleblower reprisal is a feature internationally, but it is almost a universal feature of speaking truth to power in Ireland. As a House, we...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (8 Oct 2025)

Tom Clonan: I wish to make some comments in light of the budget. While I welcome the modest increase in spending on disability and caring supports, the Government still has not come to grips with the fundamental human rights-based approach to disability that is necessary. The question of political judgment has been bandied about in the past number of days. I argue that political judgment on disability...

Seanad: Supports and Services for Patients with Head and Neck Cancers: Motion (8 Oct 2025)

Tom Clonan: I welcome everybody from the Dublin Dental University Hospital to the Chamber, in particular Rebecca. It was lovely to meet her. I am working with her dad who has taught me everything I know, or at least some of the things I know. I am delighted to hear the Government is not going to oppose the motion. Frankly, it is something that one could not oppose. It is a categoric and ethical...

Seanad: Supports and Services for Patients with Head and Neck Cancers: Motion (8 Oct 2025)

Tom Clonan: Hear, hear.

Seanad: Supports and Services for Patients with Head and Neck Cancers: Motion (8 Oct 2025)

Tom Clonan: Well said.

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (1 Oct 2025)

Tom Clonan: I want to address the issue of neutrality and the triple lock. In the presidential election campaign, we have had a debate and interviews with the candidates, particularly the Fine Gael and Fianna Fáil candidates, on the campaign trail. The issues of the triple lock and neutrality have come up repeatedly. Much of what has been articulated consists of misinformation. I am not going to...

Committee on Disability Matters: Inclusive Education for Persons with Disabilities: Discussion (Resumed) (1 Oct 2025)

Tom Clonan: I apologise, because I had to attend the health committee meeting this morning and I have to return. Apologies, I do not mean to be rude and in that context, forgive me if my questions are redundant because I am at a disadvantage in not having heard either the presentations or the questions and answers previously. Taking up the question of assessment of need because it is great to have...

Committee on Disability Matters: Inclusive Education for Persons with Disabilities: Discussion (Resumed) (1 Oct 2025)

Tom Clonan: Thank you very much. I will just say as a parent of a now adult with a disability, he has never had meaningful speech and language therapy intervention. He has never had meaningful physiotherapy. He has never had any proper interventions and, as a consequence, it has had suboptimal outcomes for him. I was in Germany last week in Mannheim meeting our counterparts there, and at a federal,...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Management of Hospital Waiting Lists and Insourcing and Outsourcing of Treatment: Discussion (Resumed) (1 Oct 2025)

Tom Clonan: Cuirim fáilte romhaibh go léir isteach go dtí an coiste. I thank the Minister for meeting Gillian and Stephen Sherratt along with the Tánaiste this week. I know that cannot have been an easy meeting. I also thank the Minister for the Government's commitment to holding a statutory inquiry into the activities of CHI. I am reassured to see that CHI has been incorporated...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Management of Hospital Waiting Lists and Insourcing and Outsourcing of Treatment: Discussion (Resumed) (1 Oct 2025)

Tom Clonan: Regarding the status of these waiting lists as an emergency, for over two years, I have repeatedly pointed out on the record in the Seanad on Commencement matters, which the Minister repeatedly did not attend, that young women and men are becoming infertile and that it is de facto sterilisation for lack of intervention. We have plenty of resources. Would the Minister characterise those...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Management of Hospital Waiting Lists and Insourcing and Outsourcing of Treatment: Discussion (Resumed) (1 Oct 2025)

Tom Clonan: Would the Minister characterise it as an emergency?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Management of Hospital Waiting Lists and Insourcing and Outsourcing of Treatment: Discussion (Resumed) (1 Oct 2025)

Tom Clonan: In relation to the urology waiting list and spinal waiting list, the Minister will not use the word "emergency" to describe that.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Management of Hospital Waiting Lists and Insourcing and Outsourcing of Treatment: Discussion (Resumed) (1 Oct 2025)

Tom Clonan: I can tell the Minister, respectfully, with the catastrophic outcomes that are applying to disabled children and adolescents, it is an emergency.

Committee on Disability Matters: Inclusive Education for People with Disabilities: Discussion (17 Sep 2025)

Tom Clonan: Cuirim fáilte roimh an Aire Stáit ar maidin. Is iontach, agus ait, é a fheiceáil ina shuí trasna an tseomra in ionad ina shuí ag barr an tseomra. Tá ceist shimplí agam ar dtús. How many children with special or additional needs do not have school places as we speak?