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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Disability Matters: Disability Inclusive Social Protection: Discussion (11 May 2023)

Tom Clonan: I thank the witnesses for coming in. One of my sons is a wheelchair user and some of his services are provided by the Rehab Group. The people who come to us from the Rehab Group, without exception, are all wonderful. They are from Ghana, Nigeria, the Philippines, Korea and all over the world. They are all the most amazing people and the guy who organises for us is called Fauzi. Every...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Disability Matters: Disability Inclusive Social Protection: Discussion (11 May 2023)

Tom Clonan: That is extraordinary.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Disability Matters: Disability Inclusive Social Protection: Discussion (11 May 2023)

Tom Clonan: I thank the witnesses.

Seanad: Address to Seanad Éireann by Ms Mairead McGuinness, European Commissioner (9 May 2023)

Tom Clonan: I am delighted to welcome Commissioner McGuinness to the Seanad, especially on Europe Day 2023. The theme of Europe Day this year is peace and unity. As the Commissioner said in her opening remarks, formed just five years after the end of the Second World War, the European Coal and Steel Community, followed by the European Economic Community and then the EU, have amounted to an...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (9 May 2023)

Tom Clonan: Cuirim fáilte roimh ár gcuairteoirí. It is great to see them all here. I want to bring to the attention of the House a very serious issue that was raised recently by way of protected disclosure at Dublin Airport by a very senior and experienced member of staff there, with decades of experience in dealing with security and matters of passenger safety. This is to do with the...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (9 May 2023)

Tom Clonan: Will the Leader write to the Chair of the committee?

Seanad: Reykjavik Summit of the Council of Europe: Statements (3 May 2023)

Tom Clonan: Curirim fáilte roimh an Aire Stáit.I echo my fellow Senators' compliments to Senator O'Loughlin for the work done on the report in advance of the Summit of Heads of State and Government at the Council of Europe in Reykjavik in May. The last meeting in 2005 predated the invasion of Georgia by Russia. The geopolitical situation has changed fundamentally in Europe since then....

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (27 Apr 2023)

Tom Clonan: I welcome the ambassador and the military attaché to the Seanad. I want to raise the challenges confronting Irish citizens in Sudan, who are there amid the fighting, as well as our response and what we can do in Ireland to assist them. I understand that we have successfully evacuated just short of 100 of our citizens, but there are other citizens stranded there. I listened yesterday...

Seanad: Report of the Independent Review Group on Dignity and Equality Issues in the Defence Forces: Statements (25 Apr 2023)

Tom Clonan: Cuirim fáilte roimh an Tánaiste go dtí an Teach. I, too, am a veteran of the Defence Forces. I served overseas and came under sustained periods of fire when I was overseas but that was nothing compared with the anger, fire and reprisal from people who engaged in that well-known practice of shooting the messenger. Essentially, as has been pointed out in the IRG report,...

Seanad: Report of the Independent Review Group on Dignity and Equality Issues in the Defence Forces: Statements (25 Apr 2023)

Tom Clonan: In preparing these notes, I am not referring in any way to the sentiments expressed by Senators Ward or Kyne. I agree with absolutely every word that my good friends and colleagues, Senators Ward and Kyne, expressed here today. I really welcome the full statutory inquiry and I also welcome the fact that An Garda Síochána will now investigate allegations of sexual assault,...

Seanad: Report of the Independent Review Group on Dignity and Equality Issues in the Defence Forces: Statements (25 Apr 2023)

Tom Clonan: Hear, hear.

Joint Committee On Children, Equality, Disability, Integration And Youth: Possible Enhancement of Child Protection Powers of Tusla: Discussion (25 Apr 2023)

Tom Clonan: With such little time and so much to ask, I do not know where to start. Following up on what Senator Ruane said, a paragraph in the report states, “The information did not at that time suggest evidence of systemic abuse across the organisation.” That was in 2019. The values and norms of behaviour in that organisation suggest that the risk factors were systemic. With my...

Joint Committee On Children, Equality, Disability, Integration And Youth: Possible Enhancement of Child Protection Powers of Tusla: Discussion (25 Apr 2023)

Tom Clonan: I believe there is a fundamental, categorical, ethical, imperative-----

Joint Committee On Children, Equality, Disability, Integration And Youth: Possible Enhancement of Child Protection Powers of Tusla: Discussion (25 Apr 2023)

Tom Clonan: These questions have to be answered.

Joint Committee On Children, Equality, Disability, Integration And Youth: Possible Enhancement of Child Protection Powers of Tusla: Discussion (25 Apr 2023)

Tom Clonan: I thank the Chair. If I can restate it-----

Joint Committee On Children, Equality, Disability, Integration And Youth: Possible Enhancement of Child Protection Powers of Tusla: Discussion (25 Apr 2023)

Tom Clonan: For example, I have an 18-year-old daughter. She is doing her leaving certificate. There is not a hope in hell that she would apply to join the armed forces of a certain country. If she did, I would say not to join the armed forces of a certain country because it is not a safe place for women. My question for the witnesses is, is an organisation with the types of risk factors that have...

Joint Committee On Children, Equality, Disability, Integration And Youth: Possible Enhancement of Child Protection Powers of Tusla: Discussion (25 Apr 2023)

Tom Clonan: Just to be clear, I am not downplaying the risk. Of course we all know that abusers are usually known to the survivor and very often are family members. I am talking about it from a sociological or anthropological perspective - systemic in the context of an organisation. When Tusla is dealing with an organisation such as the one we cannot mention, at our stage and with our level of...

Joint Committee On Children, Equality, Disability, Integration And Youth: Possible Enhancement of Child Protection Powers of Tusla: Discussion (25 Apr 2023)

Tom Clonan: I commend Ms Duggan on that. I wrote to the Garda Commissioner in the past week asking for a Garda investigation into the residential setting for persons with intellectual disability and, unfortunately, in writing to the Commissioner, I had to point out that some of the statutory agencies involved are actually the ones placing obstacles in the way of such full disclosure, with the...

Joint Committee On Children, Equality, Disability, Integration And Youth: Possible Enhancement of Child Protection Powers of Tusla: Discussion (25 Apr 2023)

Tom Clonan: I thank Ms Duggan very much.

Joint Committee On Children, Equality, Disability, Integration And Youth: Possible Enhancement of Child Protection Powers of Tusla: Discussion (25 Apr 2023)

Tom Clonan: If I could restate that question then-----