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Seanad: Seanad Electoral (University Members) (Amendment) Bill 2024: Committee and Remaining Stages (16 Oct 2024)

Tom Clonan: I will be a shot in the arm, being the young energetic Senator that I am.

Seanad: Criminal Justice (Incitement to Violence or Hatred and Hate Offences) Bill 2022: Committee and Remaining Stages (16 Oct 2024)

Tom Clonan: I do not share the same ideological ground as Senator Mullen. My amendment relates to the categories of citizens set out in the legislation. It includes all those referred to.

Seanad: Criminal Justice (Incitement to Violence or Hatred and Hate Offences) Bill 2022: Committee and Remaining Stages (16 Oct 2024)

Tom Clonan: What the Minister said may have been unintentional but she should clarify the record because, with respect, my amendment seeks explicitly to protect that category of citizens in question.

Seanad: Criminal Justice (Incitement to Violence or Hatred and Hate Offences) Bill 2022: Committee and Remaining Stages (16 Oct 2024)

Tom Clonan: The Minister is simply continuing; she has not corrected the record. I ask the Chair to direct the following question to the Minister: does she intend to correct the record or does she stand by her assertion that there is nothing in my amendment that would seek to protect all the categories of citizens as set out by her and her drafters? I have explicitly referred to protecting them.

Seanad: Criminal Justice (Incitement to Violence or Hatred and Hate Offences) Bill 2022: Committee and Remaining Stages (16 Oct 2024)

Tom Clonan: Will the Minister correct the record?

Seanad: Criminal Justice (Incitement to Violence or Hatred and Hate Offences) Bill 2022: Committee and Remaining Stages (16 Oct 2024)

Tom Clonan: She said none of the amendments submitted by any of the Senators would protect a transgender person. I have the greatest of respect for the Minister; this is not personal.

Seanad: Criminal Justice (Incitement to Violence or Hatred and Hate Offences) Bill 2022: Committee and Remaining Stages (16 Oct 2024)

Tom Clonan: The Minister is very welcome to the Chamber again. I do not have any objection whatsoever to the intentions and principles that underpin this Bill. It is sometimes said that perfection is the enemy of the good, but one small imperfection in this Bill is the enemy of the good intentions of the Minister and the Government. With regard to the definition of hate I have submitted in my...

Seanad: Criminal Justice (Incitement to Violence or Hatred and Hate Offences) Bill 2022: Committee and Remaining Stages (16 Oct 2024)

Tom Clonan: With respect to the Senator, it is not a comprehensive list because all of humanity is infinite and varietal. All difference is to be celebrated. To read-----

Seanad: Criminal Justice (Incitement to Violence or Hatred and Hate Offences) Bill 2022: Committee and Remaining Stages (16 Oct 2024)

Tom Clonan: It is a finite list, so it cannot purport to represent the infinite variety of all human beings which, as I said, should be celebrated.

Joint Committee On Children, Equality, Disability, Integration And Youth: Commission for Future Generations Bill 2023: Discussion (Resumed) (15 Oct 2024)

Tom Clonan: As the Deputy says, we are so immersed in the neoliberal imperative. However, I can remember Ireland in the seventies. I got my first job in the eighties. I can remember it, dark and all as it was. There were certain things in respect of which there were received values, such as housing and health. I remember watching a documentary programme involving Alan Whicker in America. I...

Joint Committee On Children, Equality, Disability, Integration And Youth: Commission for Future Generations Bill 2023: Discussion (Resumed) (15 Oct 2024)

Tom Clonan: I thank Deputy Ó Cathasaigh again for bringing forward this useful legislation. I have very little to add to the questions I put last week. One of the questions I put was about the categories of citizens that might be deemed suitable for inclusion, so I endorse what Ms Ní Bhuachalla says about all categories of citizens as set out in the Equal Status Act. As regards thinking...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (15 Oct 2024)

Tom Clonan: I propose an amendment to the Order of Business, that No. 17 be taken before No. 1. This concerns the Disability (Personalised Budgets) Bill 2024, which will revolutionise the situation for disabled citizens in the State who cannot get the services, supports, therapies and surgeries they need. It would take control away from the HSE and put it into the hands of disabled citizens and carers....

Seanad: Disability (Personalised Budgets) Bill 2024: First Stage (15 Oct 2024)

Tom Clonan: I move: That leave be granted to introduce a Bill entitled an Act to amend and extend the Disability Act 2005 and to provide for related matters.

Seanad: Disability (Personalised Budgets) Bill 2024: First Stage (15 Oct 2024)

Tom Clonan: Next Tuesday.

Seanad: Seanad Electoral (University Members) (Amendment) Bill 2024: Second Stage (10 Oct 2024)

Tom Clonan: I thank Senator Mullen for letting me lead off. The Minister is very welcome to the House. I am that rare commodity in that I am a Trinity Senator, even though I am from Finglas. I am very proud to be a representative of that august institution here and very grateful to have been elected. I voted for Seanad reform in the last referendum. Sad to say, I was a teenager in 1979, believe it...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (9 Oct 2024)

Tom Clonan: I am looking for a little clarity. I am delighted to see that the Government has resolved to fully endorse the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, including the optional protocol. While I understand that the Cabinet has agreed to do this, when will this happen and on what date? I have heard some mixed messages that it might be December and, given the circumstances of...

Seanad: Final Report of the Joint Committee on Autism: Motion [Private Members] (9 Oct 2024)

Tom Clonan: We will take six minutes each if that is okay.

Seanad: Final Report of the Joint Committee on Autism: Motion [Private Members] (9 Oct 2024)

Tom Clonan: In that case, I had better be quick. I thank the Minister of State for coming to the House. I welcome the publication of the report and thank Senator Carrigy for all the work he has done on this and all my colleagues who have worked with him on it. His group was established prior to my election. I am delighted that all after that work, it has come to fruition today. I also thank the...

Seanad: Final Report of the Joint Committee on Autism: Motion [Private Members] (9 Oct 2024)

Tom Clonan: That is when my advocacy as a parent began because in Ireland, as a parent and carer and as a family who experience disability, you become de facto an advocate. I approached the line Minister at the time. I never got to speak to the Minister for Health. I would characterise the response then, in 2011, as one of hostility and quite confrontational. The attitude was one of “So, you...

Seanad: Final Report of the Joint Committee on Autism: Motion [Private Members] (9 Oct 2024)

Tom Clonan: I just wanted to acknowledge the work that has been done. I feel a sea change in relation to our community. All of us need to come together. Whether it is neurodivergence, intellectual or physical disability, we have the most powerful lobby in the country. If disabled persons' organisations and parents like me who are mandated under the UNCRPD to advocate for parents come together and...