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Seanad: European Arrest Warrant (Amendment) Bill 2022: Second Stage (25 Oct 2022)

Tom Clonan: I thank the Minister of State for coming to the House. I commend this legislation. I have an abiding interest in transnational crime within the European space. The Garda Síochána is the primary intelligence agency within the State, although we have new emerging structures. The discussion of this legislation prompts me to comment that we, as a House and a Legislature, need to be...

Seanad: Poverty and Social Exclusion: Motion (19 Oct 2022)

Tom Clonan: I thank Senators Ruane, Higgins and Black for proposing this motion for debate. I want to do a kind of meditation on poverty, if I may. I will start by focusing on material poverty and then I will focus on poverty of spirit in this Republic. I will begin with an area of particular interest to me, that is, disability. That interest is borne out of my family's experience. We know the...

Seanad: Poverty and Social Exclusion: Motion (19 Oct 2022)

Tom Clonan: -----proverbially in this country. The population here in 2000 was 3.8 million; it is now 5.1 million. Do the maths. Start building houses. I went to school with boys from those prefabricated houses. They were not perfect, but those boys went on to work at the gas company or became electricians. Some of the boys from my class are partners in some of the biggest law firms in the city...

Seanad: Poverty and Social Exclusion: Motion (19 Oct 2022)

Tom Clonan: If we have a senior person who talks about an eviction ban as kicking the can down the road, where does he think those people are going to go? There is nowhere for them to go. What is he trying to do? Create the set of "A Christmas Carol"? Christmas is nine weeks away. There is nowhere for people to go. We have reached an absolute crisis point and we absolutely have to do something...

Joint Committee On Children, Equality, Disability, Integration And Youth: Organisation of Working Time (Domestic Violence Leave) Bill 2020: Discussion (Resumed) (18 Oct 2022)

Tom Clonan: I thank everybody for their contributions which have helped me frame a couple of questions. My own research into discrimination and sexual violence in our armed forces is over 20 years old and as Dr. Duvvury said, we have the knowledge. We know this. In that research from 20 years ago, what struck me was that one in four of the female personnel that I interviewed experienced some form of...

Seanad Public Consultation Committee: Other Voices on the Constitutional Future of the Island of Ireland: Unionist Community (14 Oct 2022)

Tom Clonan: I thank the witnesses very much for coming to Dublin. It is lovely to meet them. I am very interested in hearing what they have to say. I heard a couple of recurring themes. One of them is about identity and the other was the use of the word "reunification". In terms of identity, I am from Dublin. In my family, on my mum's side we have people who ordered the execution of the 1916...

Seanad Public Consultation Committee: Other Voices on the Constitutional Future of the Island of Ireland: Unionist Community (14 Oct 2022)

Tom Clonan: As BT said; it is good to talk.

Seanad Public Consultation Committee: Other Voices on the Constitutional Future of the Island of Ireland: Unionist Community (14 Oct 2022)

Tom Clonan: I am sorry; I could not resist.

Seanad Public Consultation Committee: Other Voices on the Constitutional Future of the Island of Ireland: Unionist Community (14 Oct 2022)

Tom Clonan: I thank the witnesses. I have been saying for a while that we need to talk and that it is good to talk. They have been talking and I have learned a great deal in this short interaction. Something I admire about the unionist community is the intellectual rigour of asking to be shown the detail and told the facts. Irish people characterise ourselves as being rebellious and radical, but we...

Seanad Public Consultation Committee: Other Voices on the Constitutional Future of the Island of Ireland: Unionist Community (14 Oct 2022)

Tom Clonan: Hear, hear.

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (12 Oct 2022)

Tom Clonan: I have a question. I want to move a motion and I wonder if I need a seconder.

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (12 Oct 2022)

Tom Clonan: I propose to move No. 114, motion 3. This is a motion related to the matter of the current pay claim sought under the scheme for Senators’ secretarial assistance to make a recommendation to the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform that Seanad secretarial assistants be permanently regraded to the role and remuneration of parliamentary assistants. I hope I will have a seconder later.

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (12 Oct 2022)

Tom Clonan: Hear, hear.

Seanad: Scheme for Secretarial Assistance: Motion (12 Oct 2022)

Tom Clonan: I move: That Seanad Éireann calls on the Houses of the Oireachtas Commission in the matter of the current pay claim sought under the Scheme for Senators’ Secretarial Assistance to make a recommendation to the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform that Seanad Secretarial Assistants be permanently regraded to the role and remuneration of Parliamentary Assistants.

Seanad Public Consultation Committee: Constitutional Future of the Island of Ireland - Public Policy, Economic Opportunities and Challenges: Discussion (7 Oct 2022)

Tom Clonan: I have two questions. One is specific and one is more general. In relation to health, Dr. Connolly's presentation was really interesting. Regarding disability, the Republic differs from Northern Ireland, Wales, Scotland and England in that we do not have any legal obligation on the State to provide therapies for people with disabilities. Neither do we have any legal obligation in the...

Seanad Public Consultation Committee: Constitutional Future of the Island of Ireland - Public Policy, Economic Opportunities and Challenges: Discussion (7 Oct 2022)

Tom Clonan: I thank everyone for their contributions. I am very reassured to hear Professor John Doyle say this is something we must talk about because, in my experience as a journalist and lately as a politician, there are so many people who push back in the Republic and who will say, “Now is not the time to talk about this because you are going to frighten people.” To me, that is like...

Seanad Public Consultation Committee: Constitutional Future of the Island of Ireland - Public Policy, Economic Opportunities and Challenges: Discussion (7 Oct 2022)

Tom Clonan: A lot of people do not vote.

Seanad Public Consultation Committee: Constitutional Future of the Island of Ireland - Public Policy, Economic Opportunities and Challenges: Discussion (7 Oct 2022)

Tom Clonan: Hear, hear.

Seanad Public Consultation Committee: Constitutional Future of the Island of Ireland - Public Policy, Economic Opportunities and Challenges: Discussion (7 Oct 2022)

Tom Clonan: I thank everybody who contributed to the discussion. I mentioned earlier that at least 1 million people on this island are frightened, by which I did not mean the unionist community. I count myself among those who are frightened because I do not necessarily see people doing their utmost in terms of what is going to happen next on the island. I have witnessed conflict here, in the Middle...

Seanad Public Consultation Committee: Constitutional Future of the Island of Ireland - Public Policy, Economic Opportunities and Challenges: Discussion (7 Oct 2022)

Tom Clonan: I thank Mr. Carlile.