Results 801-820 of 915 for speaker:Tom Clonan
- Joint Committee On Children, Equality, Disability, Integration And Youth: General Scheme of the Maternity Protection (Amendment) and Miscellaneous Provisions Bill 2024: Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth (24 Sep 2024)
Tom Clonan: It is not the process I am addressing, however. It is the actual substance of whether the Minister got advice from the Office of the Attorney General. It is a "Yes" or "No" answer.
- Joint Committee On Children, Equality, Disability, Integration And Youth: General Scheme of the Maternity Protection (Amendment) and Miscellaneous Provisions Bill 2024: Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth (24 Sep 2024)
Tom Clonan: So, that is a "Yes".
- Joint Committee On Children, Equality, Disability, Integration And Youth: General Scheme of the Maternity Protection (Amendment) and Miscellaneous Provisions Bill 2024: Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth (24 Sep 2024)
Tom Clonan: The Minister is saying the Department did not receive any advice from the Office of the Attorney General.
- Joint Committee On Children, Equality, Disability, Integration And Youth: General Scheme of the Maternity Protection (Amendment) and Miscellaneous Provisions Bill 2024: Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth (24 Sep 2024)
Tom Clonan: I am not asking if the Department got-----
- Joint Committee On Children, Equality, Disability, Integration And Youth: General Scheme of the Maternity Protection (Amendment) and Miscellaneous Provisions Bill 2024: Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth (24 Sep 2024)
Tom Clonan: It is a "Yes" or "No" answer. Did the Department get legal advice from the Office of the Attorney General?
- Joint Committee On Children, Equality, Disability, Integration And Youth: General Scheme of the Maternity Protection (Amendment) and Miscellaneous Provisions Bill 2024: Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth (24 Sep 2024)
Tom Clonan: The Department did not receive any advice. The Minister is saying to the committee that he received no advice from the Office of the Attorney General.
- Joint Committee On Children, Equality, Disability, Integration And Youth: General Scheme of the Maternity Protection (Amendment) and Miscellaneous Provisions Bill 2024: Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth (24 Sep 2024)
Tom Clonan: With respect, Chair, I think it is a binary concept. You either did or did not. The Minister appears to be either unwilling or unable to answer that question. We will mark that for the public record. In his answer about the complexities and drafting process, the Minister again talked about the process and that he had asked for the maternity aspects to be prioritised first and then the...
- Joint Committee On Children, Equality, Disability, Integration And Youth: General Scheme of the Maternity Protection (Amendment) and Miscellaneous Provisions Bill 2024: Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth (24 Sep 2024)
Tom Clonan: As I understand it, the Minister is saying he does not have it, but what is the reason for that? I am not saying it is like the dog ate my homework. I am asking why that particular portion of the drafting could not have been done to deadline. What was the specific complexity that delayed it?
- Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Health Service Executive (25 Sep 2024)
Tom Clonan: Cuirim fáilte roimh an Aire Stáit. I thank him for coming along and deputising for the Minister for Health. Cathaoirleach, why is the Minister for Health not here?
- Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Health Service Executive (25 Sep 2024)
Tom Clonan: I want it noted for the record that the Minister for Health never appears here for any of the Commencement matters that I submit, no matter how grave. Once is happenstance, twice is coincidence but three times or more is a strategy. This is a matter of such gravity and I infer from his absence today an attitude towards the issues that I am raising continuously in this House, which shows a...
- Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Health Service Executive (25 Sep 2024)
Tom Clonan: I am sorry, but on a point of order.This family has relinquished its anonymity.
- Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Health Service Executive (25 Sep 2024)
Tom Clonan: Therefore, not only is it appropriate for the HSE to comment on an individual case but it is obliged to.
- Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Health Service Executive (25 Sep 2024)
Tom Clonan: This is a rhetorical device that is used to protect it and indemnify it from responsibility and I reject it.
- Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Health Service Executive (25 Sep 2024)
Tom Clonan: It is a point of order.
- Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Health Service Executive (25 Sep 2024)
Tom Clonan: That rhetorical device should not be accepted in this House.
- Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Health Service Executive (25 Sep 2024)
Tom Clonan: I thank the Minister of State for that information. On a personal level, I thank him for deviating from the brief he was given to try to address some of my questions. I do appreciate it. Again, I apologise for the comments I made about what I called the rhetorical device. I know it was not something the Minister of State wrote himself. I reiterate that it is personal to the Minister of...
- Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (25 Sep 2024)
Tom Clonan: On our return to the House, I wish to raise Israel’s escalation of the conflict in the Middle East.I highlight to the House that in the past 36 hours, Israel has launched three separate waves of airstrikes across south Lebanon, deep into the Beqaa Valley, and striking targets in Beirut, in Dahieh province, which is a suburb. In that period, Israel has slaughtered more than 500 people....
- Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (25 Sep 2024)
Tom Clonan: Hear, hear.
- Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (25 Sep 2024)
Tom Clonan: Hear, hear.
- Seanad: Budget 2025 (Public Expenditure, National Development Plan Delivery and Reform): Statements (1 Oct 2024)
Tom Clonan: I echo Senator Ward's concerns about criminal barristers and free legal aid. It is an issue that goes to our fundamental trust in the administration of justice. It is an index of society that is extremely important. The Minister of State and I share an intimate understanding of the challenges posed by disability. I do not for one moment doubt his integrity and commitment to the...