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

Tom Clonan: It was 2009. It is quite recent. The National Disability Authority is commissioned to investigate it. I would imagine that if it was investigating it then it would speak to the people who designed it. Who are they?

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

Tom Clonan: Was there a risk assessment carried out for the roll out of CDNTs and PDS?

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

Tom Clonan: The authority says on its homepage that it consults disabled persons' organisations. Will Dr. Hartney tell me which ones?

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

Tom Clonan: I echo that. May Jacqui rest in peace. I have spoken on a number of platforms with her. She was a great lady. My sympathies to her family and friends. On assessments of need, since I have been elected, I have travelled to lots of other jurisdictions to investigate services and supports for disabled citizens throughout the European Union. I find it very interesting that, throughout the...

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

Tom Clonan: To reiterate, disabled citizens in other European Union jurisdictions have not just a legal right to the assessment, but also the services, supports, surgeries or whatever is set out in the assessment of needs. Does the NDA believe that is something that is desirable here?

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

Tom Clonan: It is the National Disability Authority that advises the Government on policy in this area. It is the national expert. Does it advocate for disabled citizens in Ireland, not just to have a legal right to an assessment of need, but to all the services, supports and interventions that are set out in such an assessment of need?

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

Tom Clonan: Just to be specific, we are the only country in the European Union where disabled citizens have no legal right to services, supports, therapies, interventions or personal assistants. Would Dr. Hartney favour Irish citizens coming into line with the rest of our European Union partners and having those legal and socioeconomic rights?

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

Tom Clonan: No, I am asking a question. Would Dr. Hartney favour them having the legal right, as they do -----

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

Tom Clonan: But that is the purpose of this committee. That is why I am asking Dr. Hartney the question.

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

Tom Clonan: I am pinning Dr. Hartney down.

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

Tom Clonan: I want a “Yes” or a “No”. Does Dr. Hartney favour legal rights for services, supports and interventions or does she not?

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

Tom Clonan: I have to say I find that an alarming response, given the NDA's role to advise the Government on best practice.

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

Tom Clonan: To come back to first principles, because there is a context here, we are in crisis-----

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

Tom Clonan: -----with regard to disability rights. We are outliers in the European Union. There are suboptimal outcomes for disabled citizens like my son every day all across the State. The level of distress and unmet need is phenomenal. The NDA says it would not really have a view on whether these citizens should have a legal right, which is what sets us apart from every other European Union...

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

Tom Clonan: How could Dr. Hartney not have that information?

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

Tom Clonan: She has been in the post for nine years.

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, respectfully, that the only reason we get an assessment of need is because there is a legal entitlement to it. That is the only reason. The reason we do not get the services and supports is we have no legal entitlement to them.

Committee on Defence and National Security: Recent Air Corps Developments: Discussion (24 Jun 2025)

Tom Clonan: Gabhaim buíochas leis an gCathaoirleach. The witnesses are all very welcome. I congratulate the Chief of Staff on his recent appointment. I see Colonel Owen McNally is also here. He is my former comhairleoir and I assure him that despite the obvious deterioration in age and eyesight my shoes are still polished and I have water in my water bottle still. We convened this evening to...

Committee on Defence and National Security: Recent Air Corps Developments: Discussion (24 Jun 2025)

Tom Clonan: There is great interest in this meeting and I have many queries coming in. If the Chair will permit me, I will ask a brief question from a listener, a retired senior officer and former colleague. He wants to know the rationale that precludes members of the Naval Service and Air Corps from applying for the new assistant chief of staff role. I suspect he was in the Naval Service because he...

Committee on Defence and National Security: Recent Air Corps Developments: Discussion (24 Jun 2025)

Tom Clonan: Is it open to applications?