Results 881-900 of 912 for speaker:Tom Clonan

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Disability Matters: Joint Meeting with Joint Committee on Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth
Progressing Disability Services: Discussion (2 Jun 2022)

Tom Clonan: I thank the Minister of State for the apology. I have confidence in her utmost good faith in trying to progress things, as I have in Mr. Reid. There is nothing personal in this.

Seanad: Protected Disclosures (Amendment) Bill 2022: Second Stage (25 May 2022)

Tom Clonan: I thank the Minister of State and his officials for being here. I have some concerns about the legislation. I am delighted to see another whistleblower, Peter Behan, here. I am sorry Antoinette and Noel McGree and other whistleblowers cannot be here. My first concern is about section 8, which removes the right to make protected disclosures directly to a Minister. This applied to me back...

Seanad: Protected Disclosures (Amendment) Bill 2022: Second Stage (25 May 2022)

Tom Clonan: Ireland has a very particular and toxic culture when it comes to whistleblowing. The 2014 Act, for example, contains within it the assumption that the person who calls attention to wrongdoing will lose his or her job. We need to think about that. There is no mention in this legislation of those who engage in reprisal against whistleblowers. My sin or crime was calling out sexual violence...

Joint Committee On Children, Equality, Disability, Integration And Youth: General Scheme of the Mother and Baby Institutions Payment Scheme Bill 2022 (24 May 2022)

Tom Clonan: I echo my colleagues' concerns about that six-month period. If an unborn child is in uteroand the mother is in one of those settings, is that period counted? There is a lot of research that shows there will be effects if a mother is not properly nourished and stressed. I note that many of the women concerned carried out commercial work without pay. Another way of putting that would be...

Joint Committee On Children, Equality, Disability, Integration And Youth: General Scheme of the Mother and Baby Institutions Payment Scheme Bill 2022 (24 May 2022)

Tom Clonan: May I respond?

Joint Committee On Children, Equality, Disability, Integration And Youth: General Scheme of the Mother and Baby Institutions Payment Scheme Bill 2022 (24 May 2022)

Tom Clonan: Please forgive me for asking but this is my first time to be a member of a committee.

Joint Committee On Children, Equality, Disability, Integration And Youth: General Scheme of the Mother and Baby Institutions Payment Scheme Bill 2022 (24 May 2022)

Tom Clonan: I would make a brief observation and it is in no way intended to be a personal one. It is just part of the discussion and the dialogue. I am just concerned about an aspect of this matter. The length of time spent at the site of the trauma does not correlate in any way with the outcomes of the trauma. Trauma is an inevitable organic and automatic consequence of being in the wrong place at...

Joint Committee On Children, Equality, Disability, Integration And Youth: General Scheme of the Mother and Baby Institutions Payment Scheme Bill 2022 (24 May 2022)

Tom Clonan: It does. It does not allay my concerns but it is very clear what the rationale was. I thank Ms McGarrigle for that.

Joint Committee On Children, Equality, Disability, Integration And Youth: General Scheme of the Mother and Baby Institutions Payment Scheme Bill 2022 (24 May 2022)

Tom Clonan: I thank the witnesses. The following is for Dr. O'Byrne. I said at the earlier session that as a layperson I felt there was no correlation between length of time and significance of trauma. It must be disturbing for anybody with knowledge or expertise in the area that this rationale was in place. It seems a cruel and arbitrary time limit. I echo the question Deputy Ward put. I imagine...

Joint Committee On Children, Equality, Disability, Integration And Youth: General Scheme of the Mother and Baby Institutions Payment Scheme Bill 2022 (24 May 2022)

Tom Clonan: Sorry, I should not have put her on the spot like that.

Joint Committee On Children, Equality, Disability, Integration And Youth: General Scheme of the Mother and Baby Institutions Payment Scheme Bill 2022 (24 May 2022)

Tom Clonan: That is great. That makes sense. It is a deterministic, quantitative, paternalistic, measurable sort of thing. It is like they shy away from the qualitative, experiential element of being put in that awful situation and a mother knowing there will be negative consequences and seeing this happen to other people. It is unimaginable pain and torment. I thank Ms O'Kennedy.

Joint Committee On Children, Equality, Disability, Integration And Youth: General Scheme of the Mother and Baby Institutions Payment Scheme Bill 2022 (24 May 2022)

Tom Clonan: It speaks to speaking the truth and naming the harm. I thank the witnesses.

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

Tom Clonan: In the last couple of days I have been reflecting after the visit of my great friend and colleague, Senator Ward, and Senator Ahearn to Ukraine. There is particular risk for Members of the Oireachtas participating in these visits. I am concerned about depleted uranium, which is a by-product of nuclear enrichment after uranium-235 is extracted. The remnant uranium is widely used as armour...

Seanad: Europe Day 2022: Statements (11 May 2022)

Tom Clonan: I will not keep the Minister of State long. I will be brief. I was born on the 50th anniversary of the 1916 rising. Fifty years on from that I was born into a republic that could have been characterised as one of a pitchfork and candlestick. Ireland was quite a poor country in European terms. In the 1970s after we joined the European Economic Community, as it was then, it transformed...

Seanad: Northern Ireland: Motion (11 May 2022)

Tom Clonan: I wish to thank Sinn Féin for proposing this motion. In a previous life, I worked on the hard Border in the early 1990s prior to the ceasefires in armed support operations for An Garda Síochána. As a young man from Dublin with no experience of living along the Border, it was immediately apparent to me that any border on this island makes no sense for socioeconomic or cultural...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (10 May 2022)

Tom Clonan: It has been widely reported that the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth, Deputy O'Gorman, will come to the House at 6.30 p.m. and that prior to his discussion of the Birth Information and Tracing Bill, he will apologise on behalf of the Government to those affected by illegal birth registrations. While I welcome this apology and what I am about to say is not a...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (10 May 2022)

Tom Clonan: I absolutely respect his utmost good faith-----

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (10 May 2022)

Tom Clonan: -----but I think it would be great for the country if the Taoiseach would do that.

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (10 May 2022)

Tom Clonan: I am sure Micheál Martin would have no problem with that.

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (10 May 2022)

Tom Clonan: I thank the Leader.