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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Treatment of Children with Dysplasia and Scoliosis and Related Matters: Discussion (19 Jun 2025)

Tom Clonan: So what will Ms Nugent do? How will she discharge that responsibility? Will she just carry on?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Treatment of Children with Dysplasia and Scoliosis and Related Matters: Discussion (19 Jun 2025)

Tom Clonan: Again, as with the report, I never hear the word "children" or the word "parents". I hear measurements, quantitative statistics and this, that and the other. Moving on to the other questions, who is doing CHI's PR?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Treatment of Children with Dysplasia and Scoliosis and Related Matters: Discussion (19 Jun 2025)

Tom Clonan: How much is CHI paying Q4?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Treatment of Children with Dysplasia and Scoliosis and Related Matters: Discussion (19 Jun 2025)

Tom Clonan: Will CHI send that to the committee?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Treatment of Children with Dysplasia and Scoliosis and Related Matters: Discussion (19 Jun 2025)

Tom Clonan: CHI is getting value for money from the rogue consultant narrative. I am very disappointed to hear that narrative. This is a systemic and systematic failure at board and executive level, and CHI is not fit for purpose. I am very alarmed, given what we know, that it is purported that the transition into CHI can be trusted. I think that will be a major risk event and I am glad to see that...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Treatment of Children with Dysplasia and Scoliosis and Related Matters: Discussion (19 Jun 2025)

Tom Clonan: The witnesses do not know. I know that Dr. Okafor knows the consequences and implications of children not receiving timely intervention on the urological pathway. The witnesses do not know. What do the parents think of that? That is shocking. I have highlighted this in the Houses of the Oireachtas on behalf of the people who have elected me here and who have given me a mandate. We have...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Treatment of Children with Dysplasia and Scoliosis and Related Matters: Discussion (19 Jun 2025)

Tom Clonan: This word "legacy" has been used repeatedly, but the witnesses do not know how many of our children have become infertile due to a lack of timely intervention. Again, it is like the light switch and the fan switch. That is not a mistake; that is an ongoing systemic and systematic failure of our children, with disabled children being de facto sterilised for lack of intervention on the...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (25 Jun 2025)

Tom Clonan: I welcome our friends from Slovenia. I wish to speak about the issue of children in Gaza dying of thirst. This is an appalling apocalyptic notion to think that children are dying of thirst, when literally 2 km or 3 km away, there are supermarkets in Israel full of food, water and energy drinks. There is no absence of water for Gaza. There is no absence of food. What there is is a desire...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (25 Jun 2025)

Tom Clonan: It reflects the vulgarity.

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (25 Jun 2025)

Tom Clonan: I apologise. He said, "what the f--- they're doing", but it reflects the barbarity and the vulgarity of the polity in which we inhabit. My question for colleagues is this. When we go next year, as I presume many will, to the White House and when we apply for our visas to travel to the United States on political business, will our statements be audited and censored? Will I be banned from...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (25 Jun 2025)

Tom Clonan: I thought we could quote people. I did not realise. My apologies.

Seanad: Disability (Personalised Budgets) Bill 2024: Second Stage (25 Jun 2025)

Tom Clonan: I move: "That the Bill be now read a Second Time." I thank the Minister for coming to the House this evening, and for meeting me in the past weeks to discuss this piece of legislation. I appreciated that engagement. I will put a context for moving this personalised budgets Bill to debate stage. Ireland is, by all objective measurements, an ableist State. That is a shameful state of...

Seanad: Disability (Personalised Budgets) Bill 2024: Second Stage (25 Jun 2025)

Tom Clonan: I thank the Minister of State for coming in. I have heard nothing this evening to persuade me that there is any reason for delaying this for 18 months. I say that also in the context of a pattern emerging on the part of the Government to put a timed amendment on all legislation proposed by Opposition Members. I thought that, as a Chamber, we had a collegiality here that set us apart from...

Seanad: Nursing Homes and Care for Older Persons: Statements (26 Jun 2025)

Tom Clonan: Apologies as I was at committee with Senator Kyne and unable to attend. I am just going through the Minister of State’s statement. Regarding the abuse that “RTÉ Investigates” uncovered, not everybody will agree with me on this but I believe that was a predictable and foreseeable set of circumstances given the model of nursing care provision and the model for care...

Committee on Defence and National Security: Recent Air Corps Developments: Discussion (24 Jun 2025)

Tom Clonan: Gabhaim buíochas leis an gCathaoirleach. The witnesses are all very welcome. I congratulate the Chief of Staff on his recent appointment. I see Colonel Owen McNally is also here. He is my former comhairleoir and I assure him that despite the obvious deterioration in age and eyesight my shoes are still polished and I have water in my water bottle still. We convened this evening to...

Committee on Defence and National Security: Recent Air Corps Developments: Discussion (24 Jun 2025)

Tom Clonan: There is great interest in this meeting and I have many queries coming in. If the Chair will permit me, I will ask a brief question from a listener, a retired senior officer and former colleague. He wants to know the rationale that precludes members of the Naval Service and Air Corps from applying for the new assistant chief of staff role. I suspect he was in the Naval Service because he...

Committee on Defence and National Security: Recent Air Corps Developments: Discussion (24 Jun 2025)

Tom Clonan: Is it open to applications?

Committee on Defence and National Security: Recent Air Corps Developments: Discussion (24 Jun 2025)

Tom Clonan: Is there a possibility it will be open to all three services?

Committee on Defence and National Security: Recent Air Corps Developments: Discussion (24 Jun 2025)

Tom Clonan: I thank the witnesses and apologise for putting them on the spot. I know it was outside of the remit.

Committee on Defence and National Security: General Scheme of the Defence (Amendment) Bill 2025 : Discussion (Resumed) (26 Jun 2025)

Tom Clonan: Cuirim fáilte roimh na finnéithe. I thank them for their presentations. Professor Tonra and I have spoken at conferences together. I am a great admirer of his work. We agree on most things but there are some areas we disagree on. He framed his statement in the opening paragraph by stating that the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine has profoundly reshaped Europe’s...