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Seanad Public Consultation Committee: Constitutional Future of the Island of Ireland - Public Policy, Economic Opportunities and Challenges: Discussion (7 Oct 2022)

Tom Clonan: I thank Mr. Carlile.

Seanad: Poverty and Social Exclusion: Motion (19 Oct 2022)

Tom Clonan: I thank Senators Ruane, Higgins and Black for proposing this motion for debate. I want to do a kind of meditation on poverty, if I may. I will start by focusing on material poverty and then I will focus on poverty of spirit in this Republic. I will begin with an area of particular interest to me, that is, disability. That interest is borne out of my family's experience. We know the...

Seanad: Poverty and Social Exclusion: Motion (19 Oct 2022)

Tom Clonan: -----proverbially in this country. The population here in 2000 was 3.8 million; it is now 5.1 million. Do the maths. Start building houses. I went to school with boys from those prefabricated houses. They were not perfect, but those boys went on to work at the gas company or became electricians. Some of the boys from my class are partners in some of the biggest law firms in the city...

Seanad: Poverty and Social Exclusion: Motion (19 Oct 2022)

Tom Clonan: If we have a senior person who talks about an eviction ban as kicking the can down the road, where does he think those people are going to go? There is nowhere for them to go. What is he trying to do? Create the set of "A Christmas Carol"? Christmas is nine weeks away. There is nowhere for people to go. We have reached an absolute crisis point and we absolutely have to do something...

Seanad Public Consultation Committee: Other Voices on the Constitutional Future of the Island of Ireland: Unionist Community (14 Oct 2022)

Tom Clonan: I thank the witnesses very much for coming to Dublin. It is lovely to meet them. I am very interested in hearing what they have to say. I heard a couple of recurring themes. One of them is about identity and the other was the use of the word "reunification". In terms of identity, I am from Dublin. In my family, on my mum's side we have people who ordered the execution of the 1916...

Seanad Public Consultation Committee: Other Voices on the Constitutional Future of the Island of Ireland: Unionist Community (14 Oct 2022)

Tom Clonan: As BT said; it is good to talk.

Seanad Public Consultation Committee: Other Voices on the Constitutional Future of the Island of Ireland: Unionist Community (14 Oct 2022)

Tom Clonan: I am sorry; I could not resist.

Seanad Public Consultation Committee: Other Voices on the Constitutional Future of the Island of Ireland: Unionist Community (14 Oct 2022)

Tom Clonan: I thank the witnesses. I have been saying for a while that we need to talk and that it is good to talk. They have been talking and I have learned a great deal in this short interaction. Something I admire about the unionist community is the intellectual rigour of asking to be shown the detail and told the facts. Irish people characterise ourselves as being rebellious and radical, but we...

Seanad Public Consultation Committee: Other Voices on the Constitutional Future of the Island of Ireland: Unionist Community (14 Oct 2022)

Tom Clonan: Hear, hear.

Joint Committee On Children, Equality, Disability, Integration And Youth: Organisation of Working Time (Domestic Violence Leave) Bill 2020: Discussion (Resumed) (18 Oct 2022)

Tom Clonan: I thank everybody for their contributions which have helped me frame a couple of questions. My own research into discrimination and sexual violence in our armed forces is over 20 years old and as Dr. Duvvury said, we have the knowledge. We know this. In that research from 20 years ago, what struck me was that one in four of the female personnel that I interviewed experienced some form of...

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Departmental Schemes (25 Oct 2022)

Tom Clonan: Cuirim fáilte roimh an Aire Stáit. My Commencement matter relates to the back-to-work enterprise allowance, which has been dramatically reduced for persons with disabilities or disabled citizens. I wish to put a human face on this. The text of my Commencement matter refers to supports for people with a disability establishing businesses.This matter is drawn from one of hundreds...

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Departmental Schemes (25 Oct 2022)

Tom Clonan: I thank the Minister of State for his comprehensive response and his kind offer to assist in this matter. I am trying to make a more general point about citizens with disabilities. Equality does not mean treating people the same. It means treating people differently recognising and celebrating difference. We cannot treat disabled citizens in the same way we would treat other citizens who...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (25 Oct 2022)

Tom Clonan: I want to raise an issue that has come to my attention through the national media and a number of representations I have received. I was approached by a couple, Michael Rynne and his wife, Jan. She was diagnosed with a blood cancer in 2011. It cannot be treated, but luckily she managed to get on a drug trial outside of the jurisdiction in Leeds that saved her life. She went from a 98%...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (25 Oct 2022)

Tom Clonan: Hear, hear.

Seanad: European Arrest Warrant (Amendment) Bill 2022: Second Stage (25 Oct 2022)

Tom Clonan: I thank the Minister of State for coming to the House. I commend this legislation. I have an abiding interest in transnational crime within the European space. The Garda Síochána is the primary intelligence agency within the State, although we have new emerging structures. The discussion of this legislation prompts me to comment that we, as a House and a Legislature, need to be...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Disability Matters: HIQA's Overview Report - Monitoring and Regulation of Designated Centres for People with Disabilities in 2021: Discussion (27 Oct 2022)

Tom Clonan: The delegates are very welcome. I thank them for coming here this morning. I have a couple of questions. In the documentation provided, it is noted that there has been a 30% decrease in the number of persons with disabilities living in congregated settings. Have the delegates information as to where those people have gone? I have received hundreds of representations in the six months...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Disability Matters: HIQA's Overview Report - Monitoring and Regulation of Designated Centres for People with Disabilities in 2021: Discussion (27 Oct 2022)

Tom Clonan: I would be grateful. Must the service providers' plans include returning persons with disabilities to their parents?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Disability Matters: HIQA's Overview Report - Monitoring and Regulation of Designated Centres for People with Disabilities in 2021: Discussion (27 Oct 2022)

Tom Clonan: I apologise for interrupting.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Disability Matters: HIQA's Overview Report - Monitoring and Regulation of Designated Centres for People with Disabilities in 2021: Discussion (27 Oct 2022)

Tom Clonan: It was a matter of public record at the time. The details of the case were published widely in the print media. I spoke about it at length on the national broadcaster. There was no response and certainly nothing from the HSE. I made direct inquiries with the HSE in respect of that case and it absolutely refused to engage.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Disability Matters: HIQA's Overview Report - Monitoring and Regulation of Designated Centres for People with Disabilities in 2021: Discussion (27 Oct 2022)

Tom Clonan: I thank Mr. Colfer. I do not know if he saw this but it was recently reported that a lady in the Dún Laoghaire-Rathdown area donated the family home to a care agency. I do not want to comment specifically on her because that is her decision. However, a part of me feels very uneasy about that. We have arrived at a point where a parent, somebody like me or a carer, feels the only...