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

Tom Clonan: Frankly, the intellectual honesty I referred to is not forthcoming in those responses.

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

Tom Clonan: That lived experience is universal in Ireland. Ours should be the best country in the European Union in which to have a disability, not the worst. We should be ashamed of ourselves and of having to go on "The Late Late Show" or "Prime Time". I am not criticising the journalists, but Ailbhe Conneely, Ryan Tubridy and Miriam O'Callaghan are the people we have to turn to in order to get the...

Joint Committee On Children, Equality, Disability, Integration And Youth: 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.

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 and the officials for coming here. I am sorry that what I am going to say is not going to be pleasant but I am sure they have heard it all before. The reason I am here is the dysfunction in the services. I have a son who I speak about with his permission as he is very anxious I speak about this. He is now 20 years of age. You have failed him. He has not...

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: We do not get that empathy when we interact with Mr. Reid's colleagues. The medical people are great but the HSE's management and administrative people are not empathetic or sympathetic, and very often they are hostile.

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: Across the board they are adversarial, hostile and confrontational. I have received correspondence from people for years and, unfortunately, one must go on “The Late Late Show” to get something in Ireland. It is like "The Hunger Games". I mean I think we should have a programme called "Ireland's Sickest Family" where people compete for a wheelchair, a therapy or an...

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: Will the Department issue a statement to the effect that it has failed? That intellectual honesty would provide a good starting point for us to move forward. Both the Department of Health and the HSE have failed. It is not that they are failing or are struggling; they have failed. They have failed thousands of children like my son, all the people who are in contact with me and all the...

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: Tens of thousands.

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: With respect, I do not know why Professor MacLachlan is saying all this to me. If he reads the article in The Irish Timesabout why medics will not come back from Australia, he will find that what he is saying is not actually quite the case. I wish he would address the point that I raised. Will he issue a statement to the effect that the HSE has failed? That is the intellectual point at...

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 did not get an answer. Professor MacLachlan is not going to issue that statement. I reject what he had to say there because he is not comparing like with like. The reality is that the evidence is on the ground. People are voting with their feet. The doctor in my house would say to our children: "Do not study medicine in Ireland and if you want to study medicine, work abroad. It is not...

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: They are condescending, to be honest, given what I have had to say here today. I can see where the problems lie. What the witness is doing is an exercise in denial and being patronising and condescending, talking about twice this and twice that. We do not have the staff on the ground.

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: Frankly, the intellectual honesty I referred to is not forthcoming in those responses.

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: That lived experience is universal in Ireland. Ours should be the best country in the European Union in which to have a disability, not the worst. We should be ashamed of ourselves and of having to go on "The Late Late Show" or "Prime Time". I am not criticising the journalists, but Ailbhe Conneely, Ryan Tubridy and Miriam O'Callaghan are the people we have to turn to in order to get the...

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: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (21 Jun 2022)

Tom Clonan: I wish to raise a serious issue that impacts on all of us. Last week I spoke of the harm being done to children in the Republic through domestic violence. One child an hour experiences domestic violence. That is somewhat beyond our control, but what is in our control is the harm being done to children with disabilities throughout the State. The numbers are extremely alarming. Some 48,000...

Seanad: Address to Seanad Éireann by Members of the European Parliament (20 Sep 2022)

Tom Clonan: I echo the welcome of my fellow Senators for our MEPs and I shall make a number of short observations. We are living in a time after emerging from Covid. Little did we foresee that we are living in a time of unprecedented crises and, to a certain extent, unprecedented existential crises in terms of what might or might not happen. The Zaporizhzhianuclear plant, which is the largest in...

Seanad: Higher Education Authority Bill 2022: Report Stage (Resumed) (20 Sep 2022)

Tom Clonan: Go raibh maith agat or, as they say in Hungary, köszönöm. I want to echo what Senator Higgins said. The national strategy for higher education, the last iteration of the aims and goals of the higher education sector in Ireland, sets out that our universities should be the engines of economic recovery. It was written after the intellectual and ethical failures of the so-called...

Seanad: Higher Education Authority Bill 2022: Report Stage (Resumed) (20 Sep 2022)

Tom Clonan: There is nowhere for them to live.

Seanad: Higher Education Authority Bill 2022: Report Stage (Resumed) (20 Sep 2022)

Tom Clonan: I move amendment No. 67: "In page 36, to delete line 9 and substitute the following: “(a) goals reflecting regional concerns, and”."

Seanad: Higher Education Authority Bill 2022: Report Stage (Resumed) (20 Sep 2022)

Tom Clonan: Senator Craughwell has asked me to withdraw the amendment. I would benefit from the advice of my fellow Senators. The instruction I got from him was that he was reassured by the statement that the Minister of State had made earlier.