Results 21-40 of 906 for speaker:Tom Clonan
- Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (2 Apr 2025)
Tom Clonan: -----if you look back at the record.
- Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (2 Apr 2025)
Tom Clonan: I want the clock set back to three minutes.
- Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (2 Apr 2025)
Tom Clonan: Can we start again? I raise the case of a 14-year-old boy in Tralee, Daniel Collins, who, like thousands of other disabled children in Ireland, is not receiving the support, therapies or surgical interventions he needs to grow and thrive as a young man. He is 14 years old, he has autism and cerebral palsy and, since August 2024, he has been categorised as an urgent case for spinal surgery....
- Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (2 Apr 2025)
Tom Clonan: -----spend millions and millions on legal fees and senior counsel to put families like this through an adversarial system-----
- Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (2 Apr 2025)
Tom Clonan: -----and to push back against them getting their treatment. I am asking the Leader that we have a debate with the new Minister with responsibility for children, disability, integration, youth and so on, Deputy Foley, to try to see whether there is-----
- Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (2 Apr 2025)
Tom Clonan: -----a way forward with this. I do not want to come in here every week for the next four years and raise-----
- Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (2 Apr 2025)
Tom Clonan: -----these cases. Let us turn it into a good news story and try to change something for children within the life of this Government.
- Seanad: Childcare: Statements (2 Apr 2025)
Tom Clonan: The Minister is very welcome to the House and I thank her for being here. I want to make a few general points about early and preschool education in Ireland. We are both former teachers. I was a primary school teacher back in the 1980s, briefly. In fact, I would say that I have not really worked since. It is a very tough job. Philosophically, we all accept that the State should provide...
- Seanad: Air Navigation and Transport (Arms Embargo) Bill 2024: Committee Stage (2 Apr 2025)
Tom Clonan: Minister, fáilte isteach agus comhghairdeas on your new portfolio. I want to address section 2. I commend my colleagues in the Civil Engagement Group on bringing forward the Bill. I am proud to support it. Section 2(1)(a) seeks to oblige the Minister not to provide exemptions for aircraft where an application has been made with respect to military or dual-use items destined for the...
- Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Health Services (27 Mar 2025)
Tom Clonan: I thank the Minister of State, Deputy Cummins, for coming in. The Minister for Health, Deputy Carroll MacNeill, approached me yesterday to give her personal apologies to the family this matter relates to because she cannot be here due to her schedule. However, I am glad the Minister of State is taking it because we have worked side by side over recent years in the Seanad, and I know he...
- Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Health Services (27 Mar 2025)
Tom Clonan: I thank the Minister of State. When a family comes forward like this and identifies themselves, not only can their individual case be discussed, it must be discussed. This is not a reference to the Minister of State, but I saw it employed as a rhetorical device by previous Ministers and, in particular, the HSE, when they say that they cannot comment on individual cases. However, when a...
- Seanad: Special Education Provision: Motion (26 Mar 2025)
Tom Clonan: I commend my colleagues in Sinn Féin on tabling this Private Members' motion and welcome the Minister of State to the Chamber. Cuirim fáilte roimhe and I offer my comhghairdeas on his appointment to this very important role. This set of proposals comes within a particular context. At the moment, for example, there are more than 110,000 Irish children awaiting some sort of...
- Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (25 Mar 2025)
Tom Clonan: I support my colleagues in opposition on the importance of the triple lock to Ireland's neutral status. Many commentators have said that there is no link between them, which is politically and philosophically incorrect. I did some research before I came into the Chamber. In the past 24 days there have been no fewer than 48 opinion and analysis pieces in our broadsheet newspapers and on our...
- Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (19 Mar 2025)
Tom Clonan: I remind the House that the Shannon report into serial and systematic sexual abuse of young men and boys in St. John Ambulance was published two years ago, in March 2023. We hear from reports in the media that there is no plan on the part of the Minister, Deputy Foley, to have a public inquiry into what happened at St. John Ambulance. I would be concerned about what is happening in St. John...
- Seanad: Health (Scoliosis Treatment Services) Bill 2024: Committee Stage (19 Mar 2025)
Tom Clonan: I thank the Minister for coming to the House this evening. I echo my colleague's congratulations. Déanaim comhghairdeas léi. I am delighted she has been appointed as Minister because, as others have said, she has the tenacity and capacity to deal with the many challenges that confront us in health. I thank Senator McDowell for drafting the Bill, bringing it forward and having it...
- Seanad: Health (Scoliosis Treatment Services) Bill 2024: Committee Stage (19 Mar 2025)
Tom Clonan: He would disagree.
- Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Disability Services (5 Mar 2025)
Tom Clonan: I thank the Minister of State for attending. It is International Women's Day on Saturday. Later today, we will have a Private Members' debate on women's health on this auspicious week. I raise the issue of a young Irish girl, Eve Lynn Woods, born in 2018. She is seven years old. Like thousands of other children in Ireland, she has received no meaningful physiotherapy or occupational or...
- Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Disability Services (5 Mar 2025)
Tom Clonan: I know that.
- Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Disability Services (5 Mar 2025)
Tom Clonan: I absolutely acknowledge the Minister of State's sincerity and that of Senator Rabbitte on these matters. The Minister of State mentioned the CDNTs. The CDNTs are completely and utterly dysfunctional. My understanding is that the person who launched the CDNT programme was seconded to the HSE. They were not a clinician. There was never any clinical sign-off on the CDNT system and they...
- Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Disability Services (5 Mar 2025)
Tom Clonan: They are not.