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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.

Seanad: Family Carers: Motion [Private Members] (31 Jan 2024)

Tom Clonan: Hear, hear.

Seanad: Family Carers: Motion [Private Members] (31 Jan 2024)

Tom Clonan: So that is a "No".

Seanad: Family Carers: Motion [Private Members] (31 Jan 2024)

Tom Clonan: The Disability Bill was a "No" as well. Every initiative that has been put forward-----

Seanad: Family Carers: Motion [Private Members] (31 Jan 2024)

Tom Clonan: There is no ambition.

Seanad: Family Carers: Motion [Private Members] (31 Jan 2024)

Tom Clonan: I watch my child deteriorate every day and I am powerless to intervene. There are tears shed in my house every week. I am sorry that the Minister of State is upset but I make no apologies. My intention was not to hurt her feelings. The trauma, pain and suffering of parents, including those whose children are being paralysed for lack of intervention, is immeasurable and yet no Minister...

Seanad: Family Carers: Motion [Private Members] (31 Jan 2024)

Tom Clonan: I move amendment No. 2: After the last paragraph under “calls on the Government to:”, to insert the following paragraph: “- , in light of the wording in the amendment to the Constitution on Care in the proposed new Article 42B, to immediately ratify and implement the optional protocol on the UNCRPD.”.

Seanad: Defence Forces Tribunal of Inquiry: Motion (30 Jan 2024)

Tom Clonan: Can I propose that we divide time? There is no guarantee that I will get to speak.

Seanad: Defence Forces Tribunal of Inquiry: Motion (30 Jan 2024)

Tom Clonan: I thank the Tánaiste for coming in to make his presentation and I thank Senator Craughwell for sharing his time with me. I really welcome the establishment of this tribunal. As we heard in the debate in the Dáil last week, particularly in the contribution of Deputy Jim O'Callaghan, it is an extraordinary achievement to get a fully sworn public tribunal and that is the achievement...