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Seanad: Higher Education Authority Bill 2022: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (21 Sep 2022)

Tom Clonan: I second the amendment.

Seanad: Higher Education Authority Bill 2022: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (21 Sep 2022)

Tom Clonan: I second the amendment.

Seanad: Higher Education Authority Bill 2022: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (21 Sep 2022)

Tom Clonan: I second the amendment.

Seanad: New Innovations for People with Disabilities (Digital Assistive Technology): Statements (22 Sep 2022)

Tom Clonan: I thank the Minister of State for attending. Aids and appliances are a means to an end but not an end in themselves. Although they are very useful, we cannot really consider them in the absence of the requirement for personal assistants and therapists. I will go from the individual experience to the wider experience within the community. I echo what my fellow Senators have said about the...

Seanad: Assisted Decision-Making (Capacity) (Amendment) Bill 2022: Committee Stage (28 Sep 2022)

Tom Clonan: Notwithstanding the restrictions imposed on the House under Standing Order 41, it is important that our most vulnerable citizens have somebody who is known and trusted to act in their best interests regarding the assisted decision-making function. There is quite a deal in the proposed legislation that, in practice, will be difficult and unwieldy in terms of how it might operate in real time....

Seanad: Assisted Decision-Making (Capacity) (Amendment) Bill 2022: Committee Stage (28 Sep 2022)

Tom Clonan: I move amendment No. 19: In page 26, between lines 10 and 11, to insert the following: “(8B) Directions regarding the investment strategy to be followed by the decision-making representative in respect of assets owned by the relevant person.”.”. There is a requirement for directions regarding the investment strategy to be followed by the decision-making...

Seanad: Assisted Decision-Making (Capacity) (Amendment) Bill 2022: Committee Stage (28 Sep 2022)

Tom Clonan: In the context of Senator Mullen's comments, what I heard the Minister say was that the concerns I have raised in proposing this amendment are already dealt with elsewhere. I ask and would press, however, that they be explicitly dealt with in this legislation because this legislation will have a seismic impact on all sorts of areas, from mental health and involuntary detentions to looking...

Seanad: Assisted Decision-Making (Capacity) (Amendment) Bill 2022: Committee Stage (28 Sep 2022)

Tom Clonan: I refer to amendment No. 32 to section 51, which is based on section 59(5) of the principal Act. Before I mention the proposed insertion, subsections (5A) and (5B) are explicit in that they prescribe that the power of attorney does not have any role in terms of consenting to or refusing treatment for the donor, that a donor shall not, in an enduring power of attorney, even purport to give...

Seanad: Assisted Decision-Making (Capacity) (Amendment) Bill 2022: Committee Stage (28 Sep 2022)

Tom Clonan: I move amendment No. 32: In page 38, between lines 21 and 22, to insert the following: "(5C) Notwithstanding the provision of subsection (5A) and (5B) the donor may authorise the attorney to consent to or refuse treatment for the donor where a solicitor certifies that the donor has received independent legal advice and sincerely and specifically wants to include this provision in the...

Seanad: Assisted Decision-Making (Capacity) (Amendment) Bill 2022: Committee Stage (28 Sep 2022)

Tom Clonan: We are asking that the introduction of a two-step mechanism to register enduring powers of attorney be set aside. We so request because requiring the registration of an EPA after execution will create additional legal work and costs, etc. Those additional costs might deter people from taking that step and that would not be in the public interest. It is estimated that 80% of EPAs in the UK...

Seanad: Assisted Decision-Making (Capacity) (Amendment) Bill 2022: Committee Stage (28 Sep 2022)

Tom Clonan: I thank the Minister. We will agree to disagree. I hear the logic in what he says, however, in terms of the context in which he made this decision.

Seanad: Impact of Cost of Living Issues on Young People in Ireland: Motion (28 Sep 2022)

Tom Clonan: I move: “That Seanad Éireann: acknowledges that: -the housing crisis, the cost-of-living crisis, and the inability to provide adequate care to people with disabilities, medical and mental health issues has led to a situation in which young people are emigrating for better educational and living opportunities; -students’ unions across Ireland have referred to the...

Seanad: Impact of Cost of Living Issues on Young People in Ireland: Motion (28 Sep 2022)

Tom Clonan: I lost the clock. I will hand over to Senator McDowell.

Seanad: Impact of Cost of Living Issues on Young People in Ireland: Motion (28 Sep 2022)

Tom Clonan: No.

Seanad: Impact of Cost of Living Issues on Young People in Ireland: Motion (28 Sep 2022)

Tom Clonan: Gabhaim buíochas leis an gCathaoirleach agus leis an Aire Stáit and I thank all of my colleagues for their responses. If I heard the Minister of State correctly, his father was a garda.

Seanad: Impact of Cost of Living Issues on Young People in Ireland: Motion (28 Sep 2022)

Tom Clonan: That is something we have in common. My grandfather was a garda. He married a woman from Drogheda and had nine children. He lived in the community he policed. He had his own home and was able to send his children to school. Even back in those days, some of them actually went to university and became engineers, teachers and nuns. My dad became a garda himself and, like my grandfather, he...

Seanad: Impact of Cost of Living Issues on Young People in Ireland: Motion (28 Sep 2022)

Tom Clonan: I grew up in Finglas. I was the first person in my family to go to Trinity. I do not consider myself as having come from a disadvantaged background but I certainly went to school with boys who did and who went on to become senior gardaí. I was in Vienna this week with a boy from Finglas who I sat next to in school. He is one of our senior police officers and is heading up the...

Seanad: Impact of Cost of Living Issues on Young People in Ireland: Motion (28 Sep 2022)

Tom Clonan: -----we were building houses. I remember standing at the end of Ballygall Avenue in Finglas with my sister in 1972 and seeing prefabricated houses going past on the back of lorries, on their way to build west and south Finglas. They were not perfect but from those estates came the boys I went to school with and the girls who went to school with my sisters and they went on to make a big...

Seanad: Impact of Cost of Living Issues on Young People in Ireland: Motion (28 Sep 2022)

Tom Clonan: If the Minister would let me finish. We can agree to disagree.

Seanad: Impact of Cost of Living Issues on Young People in Ireland: Motion (28 Sep 2022)

Tom Clonan: Like Senator Buttimer, I did my leaving certificate in 1984 but if I am correct, in 1984, we had Ministers who were in their 20s. I think Mary Harney was appointed Minister in the 1980s in her 20s. We gave responsibility to young people. In fact, young people forged this State. They had a citizens' assembly, which Senator Buttimer called for. They assembled outside the GPO and took...