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- Committee on Disability Matters: Inclusive Education for People with Disabilities: Discussion (17 Sep 2025)
Tom Clonan: Cuirim fáilte roimh an Aire Stáit ar maidin. Is iontach, agus ait, é a fheiceáil ina shuí trasna an tseomra in ionad ina shuí ag barr an tseomra. Tá ceist shimplí agam ar dtús. How many children with special or additional needs do not have school places as we speak?
- Committee on Disability Matters: Inclusive Education for People with Disabilities: Discussion (17 Sep 2025)
Tom Clonan: It was predicted in The Irish Times earlier in the year - I think in July - that there would be 260 without places. What is the quantum in those single figures?
- Committee on Disability Matters: Inclusive Education for People with Disabilities: Discussion (17 Sep 2025)
Tom Clonan: Can you give me an idea? Is it 70 or 80 or-----
- Committee on Disability Matters: Inclusive Education for People with Disabilities: Discussion (17 Sep 2025)
Tom Clonan: The Minister of State said that the challenges facing children and adults with disabilities are rightly receiving much attention. I would say they are receiving attention because, generally speaking, they are in crisis. I listened carefully and with great interest to our colleague Deputy Ardagh on RTÉ radio. I do not know if the Minister of State heard her interview. She spoke...
- Committee on Disability Matters: Inclusive Education for People with Disabilities: Discussion (17 Sep 2025)
Tom Clonan: After the committee meeting, perhaps one of the Minister of State's colleagues from the Department could write to us and let us know precisely who that liaison in the HSE is.
- Committee on Disability Matters: Inclusive Education for People with Disabilities: Discussion (17 Sep 2025)
Tom Clonan: I apologise but I must attend the health committee at 10.30 a.m. When the Minister of State sees me leave, that will be where I am going to.
- Committee on Disability Matters: Inclusive Education for People with Disabilities: Discussion (17 Sep 2025)
Tom Clonan: Yes. I thank the Minister of State.
- 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...
- Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (10 Jul 2025)
Tom Clonan: Bienvenue en Irlande to our French allies and great friends. Vive la France. It is great to celebrate France and Ireland; the Iiberté, égalité, fraternité, and now sororité, that exist between our countries. Today also marks the anniversary of the massacre at Srebrenica. I was proud to serve in former Yugoslavia with the Organisation for Security and Co-operation...
- Committee on Defence and National Security: General Scheme of the Defence (Amendment) Bill 2025: Discussion (Resumed) (10 Jul 2025)
Tom Clonan: I welcome the witnesses and it is great to see them. They are former colleagues. I am proud to say I was a member of RACO and I was a barrack representative in the independent republic of Magee Barracks, Kildare, back in the day. Sadly, like myself, it has been retired. We have mostly discussed the triple lock and what might replace it. We have not really got to grips with these heads....
- Committee on Defence and National Security: General Scheme of the Defence (Amendment) Bill 2025: Discussion (Resumed) (10 Jul 2025)
Tom Clonan: Yes, I just wanted to clarify the distinction. I am aware of it.
- Committee on Defence and National Security: General Scheme of the Defence (Amendment) Bill 2025: Discussion (Resumed) (10 Jul 2025)
Tom Clonan: I would like to make one last request. We worked with RACO on the previous Defence (Amendment) Act. We argued the case vocally in the Seanad and laid down amendments we had drafted in consultation with RACO. We seemed to get some traction with the then Tánaiste and Minister for Defence - it was Micheál Martin at the time - but then everything was just guillotined. While we in...
- Committee on Defence and National Security: General Scheme of the Defence (Amendment) Bill 2025: Discussion (Resumed) (10 Jul 2025)
Tom Clonan: May I raise a point of order?