Results 381-400 of 912 for speaker:Tom Clonan
- 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-----
- Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Hospital Waiting Lists (31 Jan 2024)
Tom Clonan: -----would he invoke Standing Orders? Would you invoke a one-minute limit on a response?
- Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Hospital Waiting Lists (31 Jan 2024)
Tom Clonan: I am not going-----
- Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Hospital Waiting Lists (31 Jan 2024)
Tom Clonan: 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: This is emblematic of the way that this Government, and Irish policy, treat disabled people.
- Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Hospital Waiting Lists (31 Jan 2024)
Tom Clonan: I will not take my seat. 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 am not taking my seat.
- Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Hospital Waiting Lists (31 Jan 2024)
Tom Clonan: Suspend away.
- Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Hospital Waiting Lists (31 Jan 2024)
Tom Clonan: This is an absolute disgrace. If anybody looking on or listening to this ever doubted the contempt with which disabled citizens and carers are held in this country, here is the evidence. This is the proof of it.
- Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Hospital Waiting Lists (31 Jan 2024)
Tom Clonan: I was outside the gates for 20 years protesting, protests that fell on deaf ears.
- Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Hospital Waiting Lists (31 Jan 2024)
Tom Clonan: I got elected by the people to come in here and was given a mandate to raise these issues. When I come into this Chamber, what I have to say falls on deaf ears. They do not even turn up to listen to the matters that are being raised.
- Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Hospital Waiting Lists (31 Jan 2024)
Tom Clonan: I am not raising issues about expenses, listed buildings or rainforests-----
- Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Hospital Waiting Lists (31 Jan 2024)
Tom Clonan: -----I am talking about 150 children who are in pain.
- Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (31 Jan 2024)
Tom Clonan: I thank all my colleagues this morning for their expressions of support and solidarity. It is very much appreciated. I also thank the Minister of State, Deputy O'Donnell, who was here for a different Commencement matter this morning but out of decency and courtesy sat and listened and had to hear me give out. I want to raise the issue of Mr. David Dignan, who is a 39-year-old man from...
- Seanad: Family Carers: Motion [Private Members] (31 Jan 2024)
Tom Clonan: I move amendment No. 1: After the last paragraph under “calls on the Government to:”, to insert the following paragraph: “- abandon the proposals contained in the Green Paper on Disability Reform 2023 to medically categorise disabled citizens on their capacity to work.”.
- Seanad: Family Carers: Motion [Private Members] (31 Jan 2024)
Tom Clonan: I thank the Minister of State for coming in again this evening. I thank Fine Gael for putting forward this motion. Care for our most vulnerable citizens is such an important topic. I am proposing two amendments, however. I have moved amendment No. 1 but I will speak to both amendments. In the first amendment, I ask the Government to abandon the proposals set out in the Green Paper on...
- Seanad: Family Carers: Motion [Private Members] (31 Jan 2024)
Tom Clonan: I did not want to interrupt Senator O'Loughlin, but I wish to raise a point of order. These amendments were submitted last week and were accepted, and there is an elision raised here that in some way they cannot be debated, discussed or voted upon. I want guidance on that.
- Seanad: Family Carers: Motion [Private Members] (31 Jan 2024)
Tom Clonan: It is to elide what we are talking about here. This is a motion about care and caring, and the State's responsibility is to vindicate the rights and not to elide or engage in elisions about who is responsible for what or when.
- Seanad: Family Carers: Motion [Private Members] (31 Jan 2024)
Tom Clonan: I did not want to interrupt the flow of speech, so I came in at the end. I thank the Acting Chair for his patience.
- Seanad: Family Carers: Motion [Private Members] (31 Jan 2024)
Tom Clonan: Hear, hear.