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Committee on Defence and National Security: General Scheme of the Defence (Amendment) Bill 2025 : Discussion (Resumed) (26 Jun 2025)

Tom Clonan: I am conscious of time and that Deputy Callaghan is here now. If she wants to take my time, she may do so.

Committee on Defence and National Security: General Scheme of the Defence (Amendment) Bill 2025 : Discussion (Resumed) (26 Jun 2025)

Tom Clonan: Mr. Murphy cited possible concerns over the renewal of the UN Security Council mandate that would have led to a rapid withdrawal from Chad. He talked about having to leave all our bullets, weapons and things behind because of the rainy season and so on. I was on a mission where a rapid evacuation almost happened because we came under sustained attack from the Israelis. Is it not more usual...

Committee on Defence and National Security: General Scheme of the Defence (Amendment) Bill 2025 : Discussion (Resumed) (26 Jun 2025)

Tom Clonan: Is Mr. Murphy suggesting that my experience did not happen?

Committee on Defence and National Security: General Scheme of the Defence (Amendment) Bill 2025 : Discussion (Resumed) (26 Jun 2025)

Tom Clonan: I differ with Mr. Murphy on that. I am concerned about it being mobilised or cited as a reason for dispensing with the triple lock. I also dispute his assertion that there is no link between neutrality and the triple lock and that that is a conflation. In fact, we know that if any future Government can deploy any number of troops anywhere in the world at any time in the future, that...

Committee on Defence and National Security: General Scheme of the Defence (Amendment) Bill 2025 : Discussion (Resumed) (26 Jun 2025)

Tom Clonan: He was asked the question as to whether it was respected or not.

Committee on Defence and National Security: General Scheme of the Defence (Amendment) Bill 2025 : Discussion (Resumed) (26 Jun 2025)

Tom Clonan: He said that in one sense it was but, in another sense it was not and that people kind of dislike it. I have been on the interparliamentary mission of the OSCE. I am a member of many different academic and military groups in Europe. As a journalist for the last 25 years, I have met many key decision-makers in Europe and in our community. I have never encountered any criticism or...

Committee on Defence and National Security: General Scheme of the Defence (Amendment) Bill 2025 : Discussion (Resumed) (26 Jun 2025)

Tom Clonan: I cannot quite recall the formula of words he used. Where is the evidence for that?

Committee on Defence and National Security: General Scheme of the Defence (Amendment) Bill 2025 : Discussion (Resumed) (26 Jun 2025)

Tom Clonan: I thank Professor Tonra.

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (25 Jun 2025)

Tom Clonan: I welcome our friends from Slovenia. I wish to speak about the issue of children in Gaza dying of thirst. This is an appalling apocalyptic notion to think that children are dying of thirst, when literally 2 km or 3 km away, there are supermarkets in Israel full of food, water and energy drinks. There is no absence of water for Gaza. There is no absence of food. What there is is a desire...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (25 Jun 2025)

Tom Clonan: It reflects the vulgarity.

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (25 Jun 2025)

Tom Clonan: I apologise. He said, "what the f--- they're doing", but it reflects the barbarity and the vulgarity of the polity in which we inhabit. My question for colleagues is this. When we go next year, as I presume many will, to the White House and when we apply for our visas to travel to the United States on political business, will our statements be audited and censored? Will I be banned from...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (25 Jun 2025)

Tom Clonan: I thought we could quote people. I did not realise. My apologies.

Seanad: Disability (Personalised Budgets) Bill 2024: Second Stage (25 Jun 2025)

Tom Clonan: I move: "That the Bill be now read a Second Time." I thank the Minister for coming to the House this evening, and for meeting me in the past weeks to discuss this piece of legislation. I appreciated that engagement. I will put a context for moving this personalised budgets Bill to debate stage. Ireland is, by all objective measurements, an ableist State. That is a shameful state of...

Seanad: Disability (Personalised Budgets) Bill 2024: Second Stage (25 Jun 2025)

Tom Clonan: I thank the Minister of State for coming in. I have heard nothing this evening to persuade me that there is any reason for delaying this for 18 months. I say that also in the context of a pattern emerging on the part of the Government to put a timed amendment on all legislation proposed by Opposition Members. I thought that, as a Chamber, we had a collegiality here that set us apart from...

Committee on Disability Matters: Progressing the Delivery of Disability Policy and Services: Discussion (Resumed) (25 Jun 2025)

Tom Clonan: The idea that diagnosis is not required is an extraordinary assertion. I would like to put that on the record.

Committee on Disability Matters: Progressing the Delivery of Disability Policy and Services: Discussion (Resumed) (25 Jun 2025)

Tom Clonan: As a committee, for somebody to assert that diagnosis is not required flies in the face of all international evidence. It is a most extraordinary assertion. Can you imagine if someone was to say that about cancer or cardiology services?

Committee on Disability Matters: Progressing the Delivery of Disability Policy and Services: Discussion (Resumed) (25 Jun 2025)

Tom Clonan: Following on with decongregation, we had HIQA before the committee the year before last. In their time to move on the process of decongregation they said that they had decongregated between 5,000 and 10,000 disabled citizens. When I asked HIQA where they went, I was told that they do not map that. I can tell the witnesses that a lot of them go into crisis. They return to elderly parents...

Committee on Disability Matters: Progressing the Delivery of Disability Policy and Services: Discussion (Resumed) (25 Jun 2025)

Tom Clonan: I am curious. Where are we performing well? Where are we best in class in Europe?

Committee on Disability Matters: Progressing the Delivery of Disability Policy and Services: Discussion (Resumed) (25 Jun 2025)

Tom Clonan: Would Dr. Hartney agree that we are outliers for disabled citizens in Europe? We have an explicitly ableist State.

Committee on Disability Matters: Progressing the Delivery of Disability Policy and Services: Discussion (Resumed) (25 Jun 2025)

Tom Clonan: I put it to Dr. Hartney that we are in crisis. Who designed the CDNTs?