Results 21-32 of 32 for garda speaker:Tom Clonan

Seanad: Report of the Independent Review Group on Dignity and Equality Issues in the Defence Forces: Statements (25 Apr 2023)

Tom Clonan: ...agree with absolutely every word that my good friends and colleagues, Senators Ward and Kyne, expressed here today. I really welcome the full statutory inquiry and I also welcome the fact that An Garda Síochána will now investigate allegations of sexual assault, including those that were made over the weekend among troops forming up for service overseas, which, frankly, is...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (6 Dec 2022)

Tom Clonan: ...by a miracle, there have been no fatalities. These communities are being intimidated by these gangs. This is narco-terrorism and these are groups that have links to the Lyra McKee shootings and the shooting of gardaí up around Dundalk. There is an intimate link between organised crime, drug trafficking, people trafficking and these type of shootings and we should not allow them to...

Seanad: Northern Ireland: Motion (11 May 2022)

Tom Clonan: I wish to thank Sinn Féin for proposing this motion. In a previous life, I worked on the hard Border in the early 1990s prior to the ceasefires in armed support operations for An Garda Síochána. As a young man from Dublin with no experience of living along the Border, it was immediately apparent to me that any border on this island makes no sense for socioeconomic or cultural...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (16 Jun 2022)

Tom Clonan: .... We really need to draw attention to this. In conclusion, I raised 22 years ago that all matters of sexual assault within our Army, Naval Service and Air Corps should be investigated by An Garda Síochána. I raised this 22 years ago and it has not changed. They are still doing it internally and still covering it up. This is not just a case of "me too", but a case of "we...

Seanad: Criminal Justice (Incitement to Violence or Hatred and Hate Offences) Bill 2022: Second Stage (Resumed) (21 Jun 2023)

Tom Clonan: ...speech but on freedom of thought, whereby you could possess a diary in which you might have written something and, on the basis of a search warrant, it could be seized. As currently written, the Bill would empower An Garda Síochána to go on a fishing exercise and seize all of a person’s mobile and digital devices and those of everybody resident and trawl through them. It...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Disability Matters: Disability Inclusive Social Protection: Discussion (Resumed) (18 May 2023)

Tom Clonan: ...me to step in. Unfortunately, I have to leave at 10.40 a.m. and I just want to ask a couple of questions before then. I thank the witnesses for coming in. They will know the saying “When gardaí start to look young”, but when assistant secretaries general start to look young, I come to the depressing conclusion that I am just getting older. In regard to agriculture,...

Seanad: Sex Offenders (Amendment) Bill 2021: Committee Stage (8 Mar 2023)

Tom Clonan: ...the advice that senior female officers gave to me and their subordinates: if a female soldier, sailor or aircrew is sexually assaulted, do not go to the military police; do not go through the chain of command; go to An Garda Síochána and report it. At least then it will be investigated and charges will possibly be brought through the DPP’s office. However, if we rely on...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Disability Matters: Ensuring Inclusive Local and EU Elections: Discussion (25 Oct 2023)

Tom Clonan: .... I am just saying that, in terms of redrawing the constituency. My son, Eoghan, was born on 7 February 2002. He turned 18 on 7 February 2020, on the eve of the general election. We got him up to Blackrock Garda station, and the gardaí were brilliant. They made a big fuss of him. They brought him in and formally identified him. This speaks again to what Mr. Dolan was saying...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Disability Matters: Rights-Based Care for People with Disabilities: Discussion (Resumed) (15 Nov 2023)

Tom Clonan: ...recruit the staff. There are 700 people not recruited to those teams, and that seems to be echoed across the board. We are short 700 primary school teachers, I think. We have problems within An Garda Síochána and elsewhere, in other parts of the public service. My view on that is that it is probably an echo of austerity measures that were implemented during the financial...

Seanad: Europe Day 2022: Statements (11 May 2022)

Tom Clonan: ...is more akin to what I would have encountered in the former Yugoslavia and Bosnia. We must be very careful, as Europeans, about how we proceed. In 15 or 20 years, for example, I do not believe An Garda Síochána or Óglaigh na hÉireann will exist. They will have been replaced by something like "police service Ireland" or "land forces Ireland". Who knows? We must plan...

Seanad: Report of the Commission on the Defence Forces: Statements (4 Oct 2022)

Tom Clonan: ...confronts us in the next ten or 15 years, that is, what will happen on this island in the next two decades. I do not believe that Óglaigh na hÉireann will exist in 20 years' time, nor do I believe An Garda Síochána will exist. They will have been replaced by some other entities such as the police service of Ireland or land forces Ireland. I do not know, nor does...

Seanad: Protected Disclosures (Amendment) Bill 2022: Second Stage (25 May 2022)

Tom Clonan: ...was imposed on them. This is typical of Irish organisations. I have been contacted over the past two decades by whistleblowers from all aspects of Irish life, including the Law Library, charities, An Garda Síochána, religious orders, hospitals, the ambulance and fire services, corporate entities and banking. It is everywhere in Irish society. This legislation does not provide...