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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Spinal Surgery Issues at Children's University Hospital Temple Street: Children's Health Ireland (28 Sep 2023)

Tom Clonan: Did Sharon Ryan attend that?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Spinal Surgery Issues at Children's University Hospital Temple Street: Children's Health Ireland (28 Sep 2023)

Tom Clonan: Okay, so is that the witnesses' understanding of an independent review? A group of people who come for 72 hours at CHI's invitation and are accompanied by people from CHI at all times? To me, it sounds like Professor Damian McCormack and Mr. Connor Green came in here and blew the whistle about their concerns, and then the witnesses invited the Boston group out and they did not cover many of...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Spinal Surgery Issues at Children's University Hospital Temple Street: Children's Health Ireland (28 Sep 2023)

Tom Clonan: I have not asked Dr. Goldman a question about them. As a layperson, let me give some context and then I will ask a question. My son had spinal surgery in Temple Street hospital in 2018. He was 18 years old. He should have had that surgery when he was around 12 but he did not because it is Ireland and he was on an extremely long waiting list. His curvature was so pronounced that it...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Spinal Surgery Issues at Children's University Hospital Temple Street: Children's Health Ireland (28 Sep 2023)

Tom Clonan: Do you still maintain that the Boston group was an independent group, that it was family-centred and an independent investigation or was the group accompanied at all times by senior people from CHI?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Spinal Surgery Issues at Children's University Hospital Temple Street: Children's Health Ireland (28 Sep 2023)

Tom Clonan: It is still happening to hundreds of other families, is it not? Sorry does not really cut the mustard. Dr. Goldman knows what happened to me; great. He knows what is happening to hundreds of other families. Has Dr. Goldman written a paper on that?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Spinal Surgery Issues at Children's University Hospital Temple Street: Children's Health Ireland (28 Sep 2023)

Tom Clonan: Has he reported that to his professional organisation? Has he sounded the alarm? Has he raised a concern about it? Yes or no? No, he has not.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Spinal Surgery Issues at Children's University Hospital Temple Street: Children's Health Ireland (28 Sep 2023)

Tom Clonan: It is a simple yes or no. Has he raised a concern with his professional association or the international medical community about what is happening in Temple Street in Ireland?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Spinal Surgery Issues at Children's University Hospital Temple Street: Children's Health Ireland (28 Sep 2023)

Tom Clonan: The Cathaoirleach keeps interrupting. Will Dr. Goldman answer the question?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Spinal Surgery Issues at Children's University Hospital Temple Street: Children's Health Ireland (28 Sep 2023)

Tom Clonan: Has Dr. Goldman raised the concern?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Spinal Surgery Issues at Children's University Hospital Temple Street: Children's Health Ireland (28 Sep 2023)

Tom Clonan: Is what Dr. Goldman sees here consistent with what happens in Great Ormond Street or in any other jurisdiction in the EU? We are outliers and you have not raised a concern.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Spinal Surgery Issues at Children's University Hospital Temple Street: Children's Health Ireland (28 Sep 2023)

Tom Clonan: I thank Ms Hardiman. Who did you escalate it to? Who did you raise those concerns with?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Spinal Surgery Issues at Children's University Hospital Temple Street: Children's Health Ireland (28 Sep 2023)

Tom Clonan: It is escalated to the HSE, so it is internal.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Spinal Surgery Issues at Children's University Hospital Temple Street: Children's Health Ireland (28 Sep 2023)

Tom Clonan: You knew from your time in Great Ormond Street that Temple Street was out of step with international practice.

Joint Committee On Children, Equality, Disability, Integration And Youth: Child Protection: Discussion (20 Sep 2023)

Tom Clonan: I thank the Cathaoirleach and I also thank the Minister very much for his statement and for everything that has followed. My apologies that I had to attend the Committee on Disability Matters. I have an interest in safeguarding, particularly when it comes to sexual violence, sexual assault and rape. In 2000, I completed a PhD, a doctorate, while serving as an Army officer. I set out very...

Joint Committee On Children, Equality, Disability, Integration And Youth: Child Protection: Discussion (20 Sep 2023)

Tom Clonan: Thanks Chair. I apologise as I obviously missed the Minister's response on that. I ask him to address the questions I asked, given everything we have learned about how Ireland rolls with regard to this. Abusers are protected and shielded. Organisations' default position is to protect themselves and their reputations. Very far down the line is the welfare of those who have been targeted...

Joint Committee On Children, Equality, Disability, Integration And Youth: Child Protection: Discussion (20 Sep 2023)

Tom Clonan: I thank the Minister for his frank response, which I appreciate. I apologise again to the Chair that I did not hear the earlier contributions.

Joint Committee On Children, Equality, Disability, Integration And Youth: Child Protection: Discussion (20 Sep 2023)

Tom Clonan: I thank Ms Gallagher for her detailed evidence. I will try to be brief because she has covered so much ground. I first thank her for all the extraordinary human rights work she does in the UK and elsewhere. I had the pleasure of hearing her speak at a graduation ceremony at UCD a couple of years ago. My eldest guy, who has gone well past the tooth fairy, graduated in law at UCD. I will...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Disability Matters: National Disability Inclusion Strategy: Discussion (20 Sep 2023)

Tom Clonan: I thank the witnesses for coming in. I apologise; as the Minister, Deputy O'Gorman, is before another committee, I will have to leave after their responses to attend it. I was on the DSG and benefited from Ms Dempsey-Clifford's stewardship and her skills as a chair, so I appreciate that very much. As for the NDA's reports, I have a number of young adults and teenagers. My youngest...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Disability Matters: National Disability Inclusion Strategy: Discussion (20 Sep 2023)

Tom Clonan: I have received hundreds of emails from families in crisis for whom precisely that is what has happened. For example, a couple in their 80s will have had their son or a daughter who are in their 50s returned to them. I have been told that sometimes, people are transported in a taxi or a minibus and the parents are told, "Here you are." This is not fake news. It is not an artificial...