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Joint Committee On Children, Equality, Disability, Integration And Youth: Protection of Children in the Use of Artificial Intelligence: Discussion (13 Feb 2024)

Tom Clonan: I watched spaghetti westerns with my family. It was with the consent of others, or with their dodgy oversight.

Joint Committee On Children, Equality, Disability, Integration And Youth: Protection of Children in the Use of Artificial Intelligence: Discussion (13 Feb 2024)

Tom Clonan: With access to real weapons.

Joint Committee On Children, Equality, Disability, Integration And Youth: Protection of Children in the Use of Artificial Intelligence: Discussion (13 Feb 2024)

Tom Clonan: I am astonished by what I have heard. What I have really learned here is that it is the centrifugal dimension, and children consuming this on their own, completely solitary. This is compared to the centripetal, like when we were younger, and consuming stuff in a wider social context. I thank the witnesses.

Joint Committee On Children, Equality, Disability, Integration And Youth: Protection of Children in the Use of Artificial Intelligence: Discussion (13 Feb 2024)

Tom Clonan: I thank Professor O'Sullivan.

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Public Transport (31 Jan 2024)

Tom Clonan: No. In fairness, the Minister of State, Deputy O'Donnell is here.

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Hospital Waiting Lists (31 Jan 2024)

Tom Clonan: I have tabled this matter to ask the Minister for Health to comment on the fact we have 150 children with limb deformities and serious spinal issues who are not being operated on. I know of at least one child who has become permanently paralysed since we raised this issue prior to Christmas.It is of great interest that neither the Minister nor one of his representatives has turned up to take...

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Hospital Waiting Lists (31 Jan 2024)

Tom Clonan: I appreciate that.

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Hospital Waiting Lists (31 Jan 2024)

Tom Clonan: This is not personal.

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Hospital Waiting Lists (31 Jan 2024)

Tom Clonan: I hold the Minister of State in very high esteem and have great respect for him. The fact that the Minister and the Department have not sent anybody here is absolutely emblematic of the contempt in which they hold disabled children and their parents. The core issue is that two of Ireland's most experienced spinal surgeons came before the Joint Committee on Health last year and called out...

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Hospital Waiting Lists (31 Jan 2024)

Tom Clonan: With respect, on what basis?

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Hospital Waiting Lists (31 Jan 2024)

Tom Clonan: Is the Minister of State entitled to speak?

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Hospital Waiting Lists (31 Jan 2024)

Tom Clonan: I know the Minister of State wants to speak.

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Hospital Waiting Lists (31 Jan 2024)

Tom Clonan: I tabled a Commencement matter to get an informed response from the Department, not to get somebody coming in here and talking the matter by the seat of their pants. No disrespect to the Minister of State, but does he know anything about orthopaedic care?

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Hospital Waiting Lists (31 Jan 2024)

Tom Clonan: Children in the Gallery, you go home and tell your parents what a circus this Seanad is. Tell them how we treat disabled children in this country.

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Hospital Waiting Lists (31 Jan 2024)

Tom Clonan: This is a civics lesson in how parliamentary democracy is abused.

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Hospital Waiting Lists (31 Jan 2024)

Tom Clonan: I thank the Minister of State. I have one minute to respond. I appreciate that the Minister of State, out of respect for the process, has undertaken to respond. I want him to know that we have 150 disabled children in need of complex spinal surgery. Children like my son are being allowed to deteriorate because of a vendetta by the board of CHI against two senior surgeons who raised...

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Hospital Waiting Lists (31 Jan 2024)

Tom Clonan: Where is the Minister? I am sorry, Acting Chairperson, you are going to have to remove me from this Chamber.

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Hospital Waiting Lists (31 Jan 2024)

Tom Clonan: I do not care. There are 150 children in extreme pain.

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Hospital Waiting Lists (31 Jan 2024)

Tom Clonan: I have raised this matter before. Nobody is listening. What does the Acting Chairperson expect me to do?

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Hospital Waiting Lists (31 Jan 2024)

Tom Clonan: What if it was your child, Acting Chairperson? What if it was the Minister of State's child? If the Acting Chairperson's child became permanently paralysed-----