Results 501-520 of 701 for speaker:Tom Clonan
- Joint Committee On Children, Equality, Disability, Integration And Youth: Young People and the Built Environment: Carlow Educate Together (13 Dec 2022)
Tom Clonan: The witnesses are very welcome to Leinster House. I am delighted to see them. I am sorry to have missed the earlier part of the meeting because like Deputy Costello, I was at another meeting. My oldest sister was at one of the meetings and she is so bossy. It is so good that this is not being recorded or broadcast. Is that not right?
- Joint Committee On Children, Equality, Disability, Integration And Youth: Young People and the Built Environment: Carlow Educate Together (13 Dec 2022)
Tom Clonan: So now I am in big trouble. My big sister's name is Marie. I am sorry, Marie. Naming her publicly should get me out of trouble. I have a few questions and for the last one, I want a show of hands. Deputy Murnane O'Connor, who represents Carlow-Kilkenny, told me at one of these meetings a couple of weeks ago that the train station in Carlow is not accessible and, therefore, people with...
- Joint Committee On Children, Equality, Disability, Integration And Youth: Young People and the Built Environment: Carlow Educate Together (13 Dec 2022)
Tom Clonan: I thank the delegation for their thought-provoking answers.
- Joint Committee On Children, Equality, Disability, Integration And Youth: Young People and the Built Environment: Carlow Educate Together (13 Dec 2022)
Tom Clonan: The students are all well qualified for the job.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Disability Matters: Decongregation of Mental Health Settings: Mental Health Commission (8 Dec 2022)
Tom Clonan: I thank the witnesses for coming in. I worked for the Mental Health Commission for nine years, on the tribunals, as a layperson. It was a really great experience for me to see the work of the commission. I commend the commission on the advocacy work it does. I will ask the witnesses my questions and they can then take it in turns to respond to them. I ask them to answer all the...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Disability Matters: Decongregation of Mental Health Settings: Mental Health Commission (8 Dec 2022)
Tom Clonan: What about in the services?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Disability Matters: Decongregation of Mental Health Settings: Mental Health Commission (8 Dec 2022)
Tom Clonan: Would Mr. Farrelly agree that that should not be the case?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Disability Matters: Decongregation of Mental Health Settings: Mental Health Commission (8 Dec 2022)
Tom Clonan: Dr. Finnerty feels it is acceptable.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Disability Matters: Decongregation of Mental Health Settings: Mental Health Commission (8 Dec 2022)
Tom Clonan: It is not the best the service can do. It needs to appoint a properly trained person with higher specialist training. There must be a reason the HSE cannot recruit and retain consultant psychiatrists. The answer to that is that there is a toxic management culture, bullying and inappropriate oversight by non-clinicians who do not have clinical responsibility and make decisions that endanger...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Disability Matters: Decongregation of Mental Health Settings: Mental Health Commission (8 Dec 2022)
Tom Clonan: I find this extraordinary. This is Dr. Finnerty's discipline as a psychiatrist. Would a surgeon or cardiologist accept the treatment of patients in Kerry by video link to somebody in Abu Dhabi? It is beyond the realms of fiction.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Disability Matters: Decongregation of Mental Health Settings: Mental Health Commission (8 Dec 2022)
Tom Clonan: It is an extraordinary situation. I am just surprised that the royal college is so passive and quiet about this. I am concerned about its advocacy. If we can move on to the questions-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Disability Matters: Decongregation of Mental Health Settings: Mental Health Commission (8 Dec 2022)
Tom Clonan: No, I am just saying I am surprised at how passive those with an advocacy role, such as the royal college or the Mental Health Commission, are. One of the questions I asked was if the commission believes they are proactive and vocal enough in highlighting these issues.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Disability Matters: Decongregation of Mental Health Settings: Mental Health Commission (8 Dec 2022)
Tom Clonan: I am conscious of time. On the question about services in south County Dublin, is it medication only or are cognitive behavioural therapists, occupational therapists and family therapists also available? I remind the witnesses that we are all on the record here.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Disability Matters: Decongregation of Mental Health Settings: Mental Health Commission (8 Dec 2022)
Tom Clonan: I appreciate that the Mental Health Commission does not regulate this area but what I understand from the response is that there is no access through the public services to those other care pathways, and that it is medication only. I move on to the absence of suitable and acceptable placements. Some 27% of people who are homeless have disabilities and mental health issues. They are...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Disability Matters: Decongregation of Mental Health Settings: Mental Health Commission (8 Dec 2022)
Tom Clonan: In the absence of those places-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Disability Matters: Decongregation of Mental Health Settings: Mental Health Commission (8 Dec 2022)
Tom Clonan: I thank the witnesses for their time and patience.
- Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (6 Dec 2022)
Tom Clonan: I just want to echo Senator Dooley’s concerns about the shooting incidents last night. I am from Finglas originally and I grew up there. It is a great community. It is not the set of “Love/Hate”. It is a real community with real people. We should be appalled, as legislators, at the casual manner in which a 21-year-old was shot in a car on Cardiffsbridge Road - and...
- Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (1 Dec 2022)
Tom Clonan: On Romania's national day, I say buna ziuato the ambassador. I have a connection with Romania. Both Senator Norris and I are related to Bram Stoker, who wrote Dracula.
- Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (1 Dec 2022)
Tom Clonan: We have a metaphorical, if not literal, blood connection to Romania. I have spent a good deal of time in places like Timioara and Bucharest. It is a beautiful country.
- Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (1 Dec 2022)
Tom Clonan: I am indeed. Saturday, 3 December is the International Day of Persons with Disabilities. I ask all Members, when they are at their parliamentary party meetings, to press upon their leaders to commit to ratifying all the protocols, including the optional protocol of the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, next year. In any event, it must happen during the term of this...