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Seanad: Research and Innovation Bill 2024: Committee Stage (23 Apr 2024)

Tom Clonan: I move amendment No. 11: In page 9, between lines 19 and 20, to insert the following:“(4)In this Act, nothing should violate and instead seek to uphold the principles of parity of esteem (between disciples) and of academic freedom cited in Impact 2030,Ireland’s Research and Innovation Strategy and European standards of good practice.”. I want to explain a little about...

Seanad: Research and Innovation Bill 2024: Committee Stage (23 Apr 2024)

Tom Clonan: Okay. The amendment states: "In this Act, nothing should violate and instead seek to uphold the principles of parity of esteem (between disciples) and of academic freedom cited in Impact 2030, Ireland’s Research and Innovation Strategy and European standards of good practice.” I wish to reiterate those concerns and have that statement inserted explicitly into the Act. Will I...

Seanad: Research and Innovation Bill 2024: Committee Stage (23 Apr 2024)

Tom Clonan: I will speak to amendment No. 43. The amendment states: In page 12, between lines 18 and 19, to insert the following: “(k) to promote party of esteem and support equality, diversity and inclusion in research and innovation,”.

Seanad: Research and Innovation Bill 2024: Committee Stage (23 Apr 2024)

Tom Clonan: I will come in briefly. What the Minister of State said sounds counterintuitive. He said that mentioning parity of esteem will not guarantee it but we need to reinforce it. It reminds me of a scene in "The Simpsons" where Homer asks Lisa what she is going to study in university and she tells him she is going to study philosophy. Homer tells her that is great because it will mean she can...

Seanad: Research and Innovation Bill 2024: Committee Stage (23 Apr 2024)

Tom Clonan: It was the quote from "The Simpsons". The Senator cannot help himself. He has come to life now.

Seanad: Research and Innovation Bill 2024: Committee Stage (23 Apr 2024)

Tom Clonan: I object to the Senator referring to the Homer Simpson amendment. I will never live that down.

Seanad: Research and Innovation Bill 2024: Committee Stage (23 Apr 2024)

Tom Clonan: May I ask your advice, a Leas-Chathaoirligh? I would like to reintroduce the amendment on Report Stage.

Committee on Key Issues affecting the Traveller Community: Give Travellers the Floor: Discussion (18 Apr 2024)

Tom Clonan: I am an Independent Senator and I welcome all the witnesses to the Houses here today. It is lovely to sit here and listen to the contributions. I will be brief. I have only been here for two years. When I had been here for approximately a month or six weeks, my head was still spinning from trying to get used to how these Houses work and, as Deputy Ó Cuív said, how slowly things...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (17 Apr 2024)

Tom Clonan: I wish to raise the prospect of Israeli retaliation against the Islamic Republic of Iran. Three individuals - Yoav Gallant, Benny Gantz and Benjamin Netanyahu - have presided over genocidal retaliation against the people of Gaza for the reprehensible attack on 7 October in which more than 1,000 Israeli citizens - innocent men, women and children - were butchered by Hamas. Israel's response...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Disability Matters: The United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities at Local Level: Discussion (Resumed) (17 Apr 2024)

Tom Clonan: I thank the witnesses for coming in. I want to begin by clarifying. Did Ms Graham say she cannot compel bus companies to provide wheelchair accessible spaces?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Disability Matters: The United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities at Local Level: Discussion (Resumed) (17 Apr 2024)

Tom Clonan: If I recall correctly, my colleague said a 28-year-old woman was told there was no wheelchair accessible space on a bus going to the airport.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Disability Matters: The United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities at Local Level: Discussion (Resumed) (17 Apr 2024)

Tom Clonan: Will Ms Graham give me a list of all commercial operators who do not provide these services? They need to be named and shamed. That is completely and utterly unacceptable and absolutely beyond the pale. Imagine if a bus company said, "Thanks for the licence. By the way, we don't take people from the LGBTQI community. We don't take Muslims. We don't take black people. Have a nice day."...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Disability Matters: The United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities at Local Level: Discussion (Resumed) (17 Apr 2024)

Tom Clonan: Can you send me a list of the operators who refuse to do this?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Disability Matters: The United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities at Local Level: Discussion (Resumed) (17 Apr 2024)

Tom Clonan: So the National Transport Authority does not know which of the companies they give licences to are wheelchair accessible and which are not?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Disability Matters: The United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities at Local Level: Discussion (Resumed) (17 Apr 2024)

Tom Clonan: Can you communicate that information to me?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Disability Matters: The United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities at Local Level: Discussion (Resumed) (17 Apr 2024)

Tom Clonan: That is the first takeaway for me. There is a level of acceptance-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Disability Matters: The United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities at Local Level: Discussion (Resumed) (17 Apr 2024)

Tom Clonan: In your survey, will you ask them to indicate whether or not, in this 28-year-old woman's case, they would take her to the airport or not? It is completely unacceptable. On another small matter, I tried to search the list of wheelchair accessible taxis on the Transport for Ireland website. There is some problem whereby you cannot get into it. It keeps verifying whether or not you are a...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Disability Matters: The United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities at Local Level: Discussion (Resumed) (17 Apr 2024)

Tom Clonan: Why is it taking five or six years?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Disability Matters: The United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities at Local Level: Discussion (Resumed) (17 Apr 2024)

Tom Clonan: You would get a first-year student who would do that for you in 24 hours.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Disability Matters: The United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities at Local Level: Discussion (Resumed) (17 Apr 2024)

Tom Clonan: This is not personal to any of the witnesses because, excuse the pun, with transport, we are all on a journey. However, there is a level of tolerance for ableism in Ireland that is shocking. I do not accept the phrases "We'll try", "We'll endeavour" or "We're on the way". You will do it. The new Taoiseach has said we will sign all the optional protocols to the UN convention and that the...