Results 201-220 of 915 for speaker:Tom Clonan
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Disability Matters: Decongregation of Mental Health Settings: Mental Health Commission (8 Dec 2022)
Tom Clonan: I am conscious of time. On the question about services in south County Dublin, is it medication only or are cognitive behavioural therapists, occupational therapists and family therapists also available? I remind the witnesses that we are all on the record here.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Disability Matters: Decongregation of Mental Health Settings: Mental Health Commission (8 Dec 2022)
Tom Clonan: I appreciate that the Mental Health Commission does not regulate this area but what I understand from the response is that there is no access through the public services to those other care pathways, and that it is medication only. I move on to the absence of suitable and acceptable placements. Some 27% of people who are homeless have disabilities and mental health issues. They are...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Disability Matters: Decongregation of Mental Health Settings: Mental Health Commission (8 Dec 2022)
Tom Clonan: In the absence of those places-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Disability Matters: Decongregation of Mental Health Settings: Mental Health Commission (8 Dec 2022)
Tom Clonan: I thank the witnesses for their time and patience.
- Joint Committee On Children, Equality, Disability, Integration And Youth: Young People and the Built Environment: Carlow Educate Together (13 Dec 2022)
Tom Clonan: The witnesses are very welcome to Leinster House. I am delighted to see them. I am sorry to have missed the earlier part of the meeting because like Deputy Costello, I was at another meeting. My oldest sister was at one of the meetings and she is so bossy. It is so good that this is not being recorded or broadcast. Is that not right?
- Joint Committee On Children, Equality, Disability, Integration And Youth: Young People and the Built Environment: Carlow Educate Together (13 Dec 2022)
Tom Clonan: So now I am in big trouble. My big sister's name is Marie. I am sorry, Marie. Naming her publicly should get me out of trouble. I have a few questions and for the last one, I want a show of hands. Deputy Murnane O'Connor, who represents Carlow-Kilkenny, told me at one of these meetings a couple of weeks ago that the train station in Carlow is not accessible and, therefore, people with...
- Joint Committee On Children, Equality, Disability, Integration And Youth: Young People and the Built Environment: Carlow Educate Together (13 Dec 2022)
Tom Clonan: I thank the delegation for their thought-provoking answers.
- Joint Committee On Children, Equality, Disability, Integration And Youth: Young People and the Built Environment: Carlow Educate Together (13 Dec 2022)
Tom Clonan: The students are all well qualified for the job.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Disability Matters: UNCRPD and the Optional Protocol (Resumed): Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth (19 Jan 2023)
Tom Clonan: I bid good morning to the Minister and to all present and I thank the Minister for attending. I am here as a member of this committee but there is also a provision of the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, UNCRPD, for parents and carers to advocate and speak to their lived experience. This is specifically catered for within the UN convention. I am compelled,...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Disability Matters: UNCRPD and the Optional Protocol (Resumed): Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth (19 Jan 2023)
Tom Clonan: I thank the Minister.
- Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (1 Feb 2023)
Tom Clonan: Beannachtaí Lá Fhéile Bríde oraibh ar fad. On the day we celebrate St. Brigid and Irish women in general, I draw the House's attention to the book just launched by Company Quartermaster Sergeant Karina Molloy, entitled A Woman in Defence. She was on "The Late Late Show" on Friday night and has been on all the major media platforms over recent days describing her time in...
- Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (2 Feb 2023)
Tom Clonan: There is no need to apologise.
- Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (2 Feb 2023)
Tom Clonan: I will address the recent nursing home fees scandal and the withdrawal of disability payments to 12,000 people. I have the experience, as a parent and carer, of the day-to-day struggle to accessing citizenship in this Republic. It is very difficult. We are an outlier in European terms. This country is one of the worst places in the EU in which to have a disability or to be elderly, frail...
- Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (2 Feb 2023)
Tom Clonan: I am conscious that not all the information is there so I was hoping that in due course we can-----
- Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (2 Feb 2023)
Tom Clonan: I hope it is the case that there is not that co-ordinated attempt to target-----
- Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (2 Feb 2023)
Tom Clonan: Then you hear this and you think, well, that is the reason why.
- Seanad: Address by H.E. Roberta Metsola, President of the European Parliament (2 Feb 2023)
Tom Clonan: Merba ila Irlanda. Merba ila Dublin. I speak as an Independent Senator representing the graduates of Trinity College Dublin. I also speak as a veteran of Ireland's Armed Forces and a veteran of conflict in the Middle East, a person who has witnessed at first hand the squalor and indiscriminate savagery of war in the Middle East. War such as that in Ukraine today kills innocent men and...
- Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (8 Feb 2023)
Tom Clonan: Teachers in school used to call me "Cloonan", as did certain senior officers with whom I was in trouble, but my name is actually "Clonan".
- Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (8 Feb 2023)
Tom Clonan: Gabhaim buíochas leis an Chathaoirleach.
- Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (8 Feb 2023)
Tom Clonan: I refer to the Attorney General's report on the withholding of the disabled persons maintenance allowance from people in State-funded residential settings. I cannot begin to explain how offensive I find the language used in the report. The Irish Times described it as a kind of no-nonsense report. In fact, it is nonsense because what is lawful is not always appropriate or ethical. There is...