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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Legal and Policy Gaps in Adult Safeguarding: Discussion (9 Jul 2025)

Tom Clonan: Are we the only jurisdiction that-----

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Child Safety (16 Jul 2025)

Tom Clonan: I thank the Minister of State for being here. I appreciate it very much. I know it is not only the day, but also the week, that is in it. I understand the pressure he is under. This is a grave matter I wanted to raise with the Minister of State. I have been approached by a number of very senior therapists in the HSE West and North West region about something contrary to the Children...

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Child Safety (16 Jul 2025)

Tom Clonan: Apologies. There is now a pattern of retaliation and reprisal visited upon that team and the most senior of the therapists has had his role severely curtailed. There is this kind of reprisal for people who stand up to do the right thing.We are well aware of this pattern of reprisal and retaliation in the public service. That has a further danger because it sends a message to other...

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Child Safety (16 Jul 2025)

Tom Clonan: I thank the Minister of State. I am very reassured to hear that the CEO of the HSE, Mr. Gloster, shares the concerns of these three therapists. To look at this in the round, they were so concerned that they reached out to a public representative looking for help. My background is in researching systemic and systematic sexual violence in the Defence Forces. When reprisal is visited on the...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (16 Jul 2025)

Tom Clonan: I propose an amendment to the Order of Business, that No. 51 be taken before No. 1.

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (16 Jul 2025)

Tom Clonan: I thank the Cathaoirleach for his accommodation. I have two matters I want to raise. One is the issue of 12 Palestinian families from Gaza who were invited here. They were medically evacuated from Gaza in extremis. These are very sick children who were invited here by the Cabinet, which agreed to their medical evacuation. They arrived just at the beginning of the year. Now that their...

Seanad: Gaza: Motion (16 Jul 2025)

Tom Clonan: I move: “That Seanad Éireann: - condemns outright all of the violence perpetrated in and around the Gaza Strip from 7th October, 2023 to this time; - condemns outright any proposal, including that of the Israeli defence minister, Israel Katz, for the displacement, concentration, or removal by the IDF of the population of the Gaza Strip to any restricted areas or places...

Committee on Disability Matters: Progressing the Delivery of Disability Policy and Services: Discussion (Resumed) (16 Jul 2025)

Tom Clonan: Our witnesses are very welcome here this morning. After doing my little bit of research, I know Mr. O’Leary did his leaving certificate in Ardscoil Rís in 1984. I did mine with the Christian Brothers in Finglas just down the road the same year. What a fine vintage the leaving certificate students of 1984 were.

Committee on Disability Matters: Progressing the Delivery of Disability Policy and Services: Discussion (Resumed) (16 Jul 2025)

Tom Clonan: The impact the Electoral Commission has had in the very short time it has been there has been very significant. I commend Mr. O’Leary on that. Part of the reason for that is the level of leadership shown by the witnesses. I have met them several times on the campaign trail, at the count in Trinity College Dublin and now here. Is there more than one Mr. Art O’Leary, we might...