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Seanad: Wildlife (Amendment) Bill 2016: Motions (13 Jul 2023)

Tom Clonan: On behalf of Senators Ruane and Higgins, I have been asked to move amendments to the consequential amendment No. 14c8. We have some concerns about the wording used in amendment No. 14c8 and are a little unclear as to what is intended. Amendment No. 1 seeks to delete the phrase "as the Minister considers necessary from subsection (5)(b) as it caveats the provision that a review conducted...

Seanad: Wildlife (Amendment) Bill 2016: Motions (13 Jul 2023)

Tom Clonan: I move amendment No. 1: In subsection (5)(b), to delete “as the Minister considers necessary”.

Seanad: Wildlife (Amendment) Bill 2016: Motions (13 Jul 2023)

Tom Clonan: I move amendment No. 2: To delete subsection (6).

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Disability Matters: Increased Employment Participation, Self-employment and Entrepreneurship for People with Disabilities: Discussion (13 Jul 2023)

Tom Clonan: Professor Cooney is very welcome to the Houses. It is great to meet a colleague. I worked in Technological University Dublin, TUD, for 20 years and have been involved in a number of his courses. Regarding the whole Trinity College Dublin question, the Supreme Court judgment at the end of this month may actually produce a TUD Senator as well as a Trinity College Dublin Senator. It could be...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Disability Matters: Increased Employment Participation, Self-employment and Entrepreneurship for People with Disabilities: Discussion (13 Jul 2023)

Tom Clonan: It was DIY. Let the committee hear that. That is something I have been saying over and over again: there are no supports out there. Anybody who thinks or suggests that there are supports is very much mistaken. We had the Australians in for a meeting this week. The national disability insurance scheme in Australia provides disabled Australian citizens with a wraparound service with all...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Disability Matters: Increased Employment Participation, Self-employment and Entrepreneurship for People with Disabilities: Discussion (13 Jul 2023)

Tom Clonan: No pressure; it is another business opportunity.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Disability Matters: Increased Employment Participation, Self-employment and Entrepreneurship for People with Disabilities: Discussion (13 Jul 2023)

Tom Clonan: Pass on my regards to our colleagues.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Disability Matters: Increased Employment Participation, Self-employment and Entrepreneurship for People with Disabilities: Discussion (13 Jul 2023)

Tom Clonan: Unfortunately, I have to go to a meeting now. I thank the witnesses for their testimony.

Seanad: Disability (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2023: Second Stage (11 Jul 2023)

Tom Clonan: I move: "That the Bill be now read a Second Time." I am sharing time with Senator Boyhan. I will speak for 12 minutes and he will speak for four minutes. I thank the Minister of State, Deputy Rabbitte, for coming before the House this evening. I want to introduce to the House the Disability (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2023. I arrived in this House just over a year ago and in my...

Seanad: Disability (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2023: Second Stage (11 Jul 2023)

Tom Clonan: It is cynical. It is hypocritical. You know what? It is consistent. I say this because Eoghan has been on a waiting list for years. Tens of thousands of children and young adults have been on waiting lists. What the Government is doing with this Bill is putting it on a waiting list. If nothing, the Government is consistent. I therefore ask in relation to that amendment that we have a...

Seanad: Disability (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2023: Second Stage (11 Jul 2023)

Tom Clonan: I thank the Senator.

Seanad: Disability (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2023: Second Stage (11 Jul 2023)

Tom Clonan: It is shameful. Do not do this.

Seanad: Disability (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2023: Second Stage (11 Jul 2023)

Tom Clonan: I thank the Minister of State for her comments. Before I conclude, I thank all of my colleagues from the Civic Engagement Group, the Seanad Independent Group, the Labour Party, Sinn Féin and the Green Party who support my Bill. To echo Senator Ruane, I am an independent Senator and it is very difficult for me to secure time for a Private Members' Bill. To push this back for a year is...

Seanad: Disability (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2023: Second Stage (11 Jul 2023)

Tom Clonan: It is designed purely to kill the Bill. It flows from a systemic thinking that a good idea can only come from the Government benches. It is not being accepted because I sit on this side of the House. The Minister of State knows where I am coming from and the journey we have undertaken. I spent 20 years outside those gates holding up placards and made three attempts to get into this House....

Seanad: Disability (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2023: Second Stage (11 Jul 2023)

Tom Clonan: Next Tuesday.

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (28 Jun 2023)

Tom Clonan: I beg the pardon of the Cathaoirleach and Senator O'Loughlin.

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (28 Jun 2023)

Tom Clonan: I apologise but I was just dealing with an urgent message. I wish to raise the case of Captain Dr. Lisa McNamee. She is a young female medic in the Defence Forces. She was commissioned in good faith in 2017 to complete a special military medicine training scheme. It is part of the overall GP training scheme. She entered that scheme, as did other doctors, in good faith. The training...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (28 Jun 2023)

Tom Clonan: This is discouraging other young doctors from joining. It is essential for our Defence Forces to have medical personnel out in places such as Syria and Lebanon. I have asked for a meeting with the Minister and a debate on this issue. I have also asked the Minister to come to the House. Can we have a debate on this matter? I feel this woman is being targeted. Given everything we know...

Seanad: Address to Seanad Éireann by H.E. Maura Healey, Governor of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts (27 Jun 2023)

Tom Clonan: Welcome home. Fáilte abhaile. When I think of diversity and inclusion, I always think of liberty and freedom. The first shots for liberty and freedom were fired in the Battles of Lexington and Concord in the commonwealth of Massachusetts. In fact, almost 50% of the continental army of the United States in the Revolutionary War were Irish emigrants. In the field, many of them spoke...

Seanad: Address to Seanad Éireann by H.E. Maura Healey, Governor of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts (27 Jun 2023)

Tom Clonan: It said a neighbour testified that indeed there might have been a horse of that name there but he knew no such man. Unfortunately, I do not know what became of my forebear Thomas Clonan. I do not know if he is still a horse. My journey to this House was through the experience of having four teenage and adult kids, one of whom has a disability. I have always campaigned for diversity and...