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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Disability Matters: Aligning Disability Funding with the UNCRPD: Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth (18 Sep 2024)

Tom Clonan: Before I ask my questions, and following a discussion we had in private, I would like to say that we do not know if we will meet again in similar circumstances or for how long we will continue with our work in this Dáil term. Therefore, I want to recognise and put on the record the very strenuous efforts the Minister of State has made and her absolute integrity in everything she does...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Disability Matters: Aligning Disability Funding with the UNCRPD: Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth (18 Sep 2024)

Tom Clonan: I refer to the accessibility consultative committee of the Department of Transport. There are design issues with things like BusConnects. For example, the bus stop around the corner from where I live is on the Rock Road and Booterstown is a very dangerous arrangement.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Disability Matters: Aligning Disability Funding with the UNCRPD: Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth (18 Sep 2024)

Tom Clonan: I am concerned about a lack of consultation with disabled citizens. Similarly, with the new road traffic management plan for Dublin, I think it feeds back into those concerns. Again, they all feed back into the aspirations and principles as set out in the UNCRPD. I have asked a lot of questions and I thank the Minister of State for her patience.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Disability Matters: Aligning Disability Funding with the UNCRPD: Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth (18 Sep 2024)

Tom Clonan: Thank you.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Disability Matters: Aligning Disability Funding with the UNCRPD: Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth (18 Sep 2024)

Tom Clonan: Thank you very much.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Disability Matters: Aligning Disability Funding with the UNCRPD: Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth (18 Sep 2024)

Tom Clonan: As regards the policy of the Minister, Deputy O’Gorman, to campaign for wording that would not give socioeconomic rights to disabled citizens and the view of the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform that this would not be a good thing and would place a burden on the State, how does the Minister of State reconcile that policy position at the head of the Department with her own...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Disability Matters: Aligning Disability Funding with the UNCRPD: Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth (18 Sep 2024)

Tom Clonan: I am delighted to hear it is being pushed. I thank the Minister of State for her response.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Disability Matters: Aligning Disability Funding with the UNCRPD: Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth (18 Sep 2024)

Tom Clonan: I thank the Minister of State for her patience and all the work she does.

Seanad: Courts, Civil Law, Criminal Law and Superannuation (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2024: [Seanad Bill amended by the Dáil] Report and Final Stages (17 Jul 2024)

Tom Clonan: I thank the Minister for coming along today. In regard to the first group of amendments, this is an oppressive and wholly inappropriate instrument. It does not just give rise to the risk of creating two categories of Irish citizenship, it de facto creates a two-tier Irish citizenship, and in doing so devalues the whole concept and value of Irish citizenship in the first place. I share the...

Seanad: Courts, Civil Law, Criminal Law and Superannuation (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2024: [Seanad Bill amended by the Dáil] Report and Final Stages (17 Jul 2024)

Tom Clonan: I have just done so in an informed way.

Seanad: Courts, Civil Law, Criminal Law and Superannuation (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2024: [Seanad Bill amended by the Dáil] Report and Final Stages (17 Jul 2024)

Tom Clonan: I have just done it on an informed basis, on the basis of evidence that I have given you. I have been to Guantanamo Bay - I do not think Senator O'Reilly has - and I have read the legislation.

Seanad: Courts, Civil Law, Criminal Law and Superannuation (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2024: [Seanad Bill amended by the Dáil] Report and Final Stages (17 Jul 2024)

Tom Clonan: When you say "we", are you referring to the royal we?

Seanad: Courts, Civil Law, Criminal Law and Superannuation (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2024: [Seanad Bill amended by the Dáil] Report and Final Stages (17 Jul 2024)

Tom Clonan: I am talking about the procedures as set out. I am not comparing Dublin to Guantanamo Bay. For a start, the weather does not compare. However, the concept does. It creates a two-tier citizenship where naturalised citizens have diminished rights as compared with those of citizens by birth. I will give another example. Shamima Begum, a 15-year-old girl from Bethnal Green in London, and...

Seanad: Courts, Civil Law, Criminal Law and Superannuation (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2024: [Seanad Bill amended by the Dáil] Report and Final Stages (17 Jul 2024)

Tom Clonan: It is a matter of public record that she was convicted of these offences in the courts.

Seanad: Courts, Civil Law, Criminal Law and Superannuation (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2024: [Seanad Bill amended by the Dáil] Report and Final Stages (17 Jul 2024)

Tom Clonan: She could never be stripped of her citizenship because she is a citizen by birth. However, if she, like Shamima Begum, was a citizen by naturalisation, then she would have this double jeopardy of being on the one hand a child who was groomed and trafficked into the caliphate and then stripped of her citizenship as a further punishment. Everybody here, myself included, has constituents who...

Seanad: Protection of Children (Online Age Verification) Bill 2024: Second Stage (11 Jul 2024)

Tom Clonan: I echo the universal support for the spirit of the Bill and, having read the Bill, it is not motivated by a desire to censor or in some way restrict freedom of expression in any way but is motivated by a duty of care towards children. Smartphones really proliferated in the mid-noughties, so we now have a generation who are reaching majority who have been exposed to that technology in a...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (11 Jul 2024)

Tom Clonan: I am sorry I am late. I welcome Senator Bradley to the Chamber. We met before on International Women's Day in the University of Limerick. I think it was just before Covid started. I had the privilege of hearing some of her life's journey and incredible achievements. I am delighted to see her here and to meet her again. When I heard the news, I thought it was a really great appointment....

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Disability Matters: United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities: Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth (10 Jul 2024)

Tom Clonan: I thank the Minister of State and all her officials for coming in. Before I ask my questions, because of the time of year and the fact that we may be in recess very soon, and it is not certain what will happen in October and November, I will say the following. I first met the Minister of State in 2020, after she had been appointed to the role. I thank her for all the work she has done....

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Disability Matters: United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities: Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth (10 Jul 2024)

Tom Clonan: Is she a medical doctor?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Disability Matters: United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities: Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth (10 Jul 2024)

Tom Clonan: Frankly, that is extraordinary. In terms of any of the questions the Minister of State cannot answer here, because I do not want to put her unduly on the spot, will she provide me with a written explanation of how that competition was run to a point where the individual I will not name was appointed to the position of clinical lead? I ask this because, in other areas, it is a medical...