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Seanad: Disability Allowance: Motion (11 Oct 2023)

Tom Clonan: I will address it but that is factually inaccurate.

Seanad: Disability Allowance: Motion (11 Oct 2023)

Tom Clonan: I thank the Minister for her response. This is not an attempt to close down the conversation. It is the beginning of opening that conversation and having it in the clear light of day. I want to address a point the Minister made. She said that, based on current CSO figures, giving everybody with a disability a weekly universal payment of €350 would cost €18 billion a year....

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (24 Oct 2023)

Tom Clonan: I wish to raise, by way of update, the situation in respect of Children's Hospital Ireland, CHI, as it impacts on disabled children with scoliosis and other complications arising from having been left on waiting lists for catastrophically long periods of time. I reiterate that the medical device directive at European Union level came into effect around 2018 or 2019, and was then translated...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (26 Oct 2023)

Tom Clonan: I wish to talk about, and put on the record of the House, the situation that confronts the people of Gaza this morning. The Israel Defense Forces, IDF, has assembled a force of 300,000 troops on the border with Gaza and Gaza is 360 sq. km. To put that in context, the United States invaded Iraq, a country the size of France, with just over 120,000 troops. Israel is proposing to saturate the...

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

Tom Clonan: I thank everybody for coming in. What can I say to Ms Carthy about the wheelchair people on the plane? My son, who is a wheelchair user, and I have flown on different airlines and have had different experiences but I remember once being in Dublin Airport, intending to fly to Barcelona. I wheeled him up to the door of the aircraft and there was a bit of a kerfuffle. They had not arranged...

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

Tom Clonan: I thank Mr. O'Leary and I wish him the very best of luck in the work.

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

Tom Clonan: That is fantastic.

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (7 Nov 2023)

Tom Clonan: I echo Senator Dooley's comments about the children who are suffering in Gaza at the moment. We have information from the United Nations Relief and Works Agency, UNRWA, from Human Rights Watch and from Amnesty International. The eyes and ears of the world are in Gaza witnessing and uploading in real time pictures of the unfolding catastrophe there. We know that every five and ten minutes...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (7 Nov 2023)

Tom Clonan: We have had Irish people in charge of MI5-----

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (7 Nov 2023)

Tom Clonan: -----and foreign intelligence agencies.

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Family Reunification (8 Nov 2023)

Tom Clonan: I thank the Minister of State for coming in. I want to be as quick as I can. I am asking that the Department and the Minister for Justice adopt an urgent, pragmatic, family centred approach to visa applications to reunite the relatives of Irish families, particularly in the context of the increase in global conflict. We have an increasing global diaspora of Irish citizens and so this is...

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Family Reunification (8 Nov 2023)

Tom Clonan: I appreciate the Minister of State giving me that response. I am heartened to hear he has spoken to officials in the Department. It is 30°C in Kuala Lumpur today, there is 83% humidity and those children are barefoot in a mosquito-infested cell. The Malaysian authorities have told me they are imminent in their desire to deport them to Damascus. We do not need an aircraft. We do not...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Disability Matters: Rights-Based Care for People with Disabilities: Discussion (8 Nov 2023)

Tom Clonan: I thank everybody very much for coming in. It is part of the way the House works that people have to come in so late. I appreciate our guests being here after hours. I have to declare a conflict of interest before we start. Professor Lucey launched my election campaign in 2016. I do not know if he regrets that now.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Disability Matters: Rights-Based Care for People with Disabilities: Discussion (8 Nov 2023)

Tom Clonan: It was the beginning of a long campaign that ultimately bore fruit.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Disability Matters: Rights-Based Care for People with Disabilities: Discussion (8 Nov 2023)

Tom Clonan: While listening to proceedings, I have been struck by how people have been very frank in their exchanges. I really appreciate that. Last year, the committee got a very frank admission from the then CEO of the HSE, Mr. Paul Reid, that progressing disabilities had failed and that the CDNTs were not functioning as they ought to. The Minister of State, Deputy Rabbitte, and Minister, Deputy...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Disability Matters: Rights-Based Care for People with Disabilities: Discussion (8 Nov 2023)

Tom Clonan: I thank Dr. Hillery.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Disability Matters: Rights-Based Care for People with Disabilities: Discussion (8 Nov 2023)

Tom Clonan: Yes.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Disability Matters: Rights-Based Care for People with Disabilities: Discussion (8 Nov 2023)

Tom Clonan: Is this something that impacts other disciplines?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Disability Matters: Rights-Based Care for People with Disabilities: Discussion (8 Nov 2023)

Tom Clonan: Yes, it is very helpful. I thank Dr. Hillery.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Disability Matters: Rights-Based Care for People with Disabilities: Discussion (8 Nov 2023)

Tom Clonan: I asked a question about Covid and whether there is evidence of-----