Results 1-20 of 944 for speaker:Tom Clonan
- Committee on Disability Matters: Progressing the Delivery of Disability Policy and Services: Discussion (11 Jun 2025)
Tom Clonan: I thank the representatives for attending. I apologise that I was not here earlier. I am on the health committee, which, unfortunately, is on at exactly the same time. I was watching on the screen so I could see people speak. Ms Darmody and Mr. Darmody's pathway is not unlike mine in terms of my family's lived experience of disability. I have a couple of questions. I do not mean to be...
- Committee on Disability Matters: Progressing the Delivery of Disability Policy and Services: Discussion (11 Jun 2025)
Tom Clonan: I know, but it was put to the committee that no disabled person was consulted.
- Committee on Disability Matters: Progressing the Delivery of Disability Policy and Services: Discussion (11 Jun 2025)
Tom Clonan: I am making the point how do they know-----
- Committee on Disability Matters: Progressing the Delivery of Disability Policy and Services: Discussion (11 Jun 2025)
Tom Clonan: I ask the witnesses to hold that thought. It will frame some of the questions I have. Mr. Darmody commented on his and Ms Darmody's meeting with the Taoiseach, who is supposed to represent all of us. They were puzzled at his lack of alacrity regarding the crisis we all find ourselves in and asked themselves why. I spoke to a previous Taoiseach about the situation of disabled citizens...
- Committee on Disability Matters: Progressing the Delivery of Disability Policy and Services: Discussion (11 Jun 2025)
Tom Clonan: Yes, but the specific question was whether the witnesses accept that carers and parents are mandated to speak to-----
- Committee on Disability Matters: Progressing the Delivery of Disability Policy and Services: Discussion (11 Jun 2025)
Tom Clonan: So Mr. Darmody believes-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Mental Health Bill 2024: Discussion (11 Jun 2025)
Tom Clonan: I am also a member of the disability matters committee which, unfortunately, sits at precisely the same time as the health committee and I apologise for leaving earlier. To declare a conflict of interest, I sat on mental health tribunals for more than a decade before I was elected. I have attended hundreds of mental health tribunals. Before I ask questions, I want to say that I cannot...
- Committee on Defence and National Security: General Scheme of the Defence (Amendment) Bill 2025: Discussion (29 May 2025)
Tom Clonan: In the briefing note for the Oireachtas Committee on Defence and National Security, it says the purpose of this defence (amendment) Bill is the reform of the triple lock. It also mentions the modification of the triple lock. In Ms Maguire's opening statement, she mentioned reform. Is it not the case that this is the removal of the triple lock? I do not see a new lock. What is the new...
- Committee on Defence and National Security: General Scheme of the Defence (Amendment) Bill 2025: Discussion (29 May 2025)
Tom Clonan: I do not see a safeguard. On that, does that mean any future Government can send any number of Irish troops to any conflict anywhere in the world? By a simple majority?
- Committee on Defence and National Security: General Scheme of the Defence (Amendment) Bill 2025: Discussion (29 May 2025)
Tom Clonan: By Government majority, any future Government can send any number of Irish troops to any conflict anywhere in the world.
- Committee on Defence and National Security: General Scheme of the Defence (Amendment) Bill 2025: Discussion (29 May 2025)
Tom Clonan: That is a yes. So Ms Maguire is saying yes, it is a removal of the triple lock and yes, any future Government could send any number of Irish troops anywhere in the world at any time for any purpose such as peacekeeping, peace enforcement and full combat operations.
- Committee on Defence and National Security: General Scheme of the Defence (Amendment) Bill 2025: Discussion (29 May 2025)
Tom Clonan: The safeguards are notional. They are hypothetical.
- Committee on Defence and National Security: General Scheme of the Defence (Amendment) Bill 2025: Discussion (29 May 2025)
Tom Clonan: We are talking about the future. When you remove the triple lock, there is no safeguard in law other than the understanding that any future Government can send any number of Irish troops anywhere in the world for peace enforcement - full combat operations - on the basis of a simple Government majority. That, to my understanding, is not a safeguard. It is the complete removal of any...
- Committee on Defence and National Security: General Scheme of the Defence (Amendment) Bill 2025: Discussion (29 May 2025)
Tom Clonan: No, what is the largest formation that can be deployed overseas now?
- Committee on Defence and National Security: General Scheme of the Defence (Amendment) Bill 2025: Discussion (29 May 2025)
Tom Clonan: No, what is the largest unit the Defence Forces are capable of sending overseas?
- Committee on Defence and National Security: General Scheme of the Defence (Amendment) Bill 2025: Discussion (29 May 2025)
Tom Clonan: It is a battalion.
- Committee on Defence and National Security: General Scheme of the Defence (Amendment) Bill 2025: Discussion (29 May 2025)
Tom Clonan: What component of that unit do we comprise?
- Committee on Defence and National Security: General Scheme of the Defence (Amendment) Bill 2025: Discussion (29 May 2025)
Tom Clonan: How many troops can we send?
- Committee on Defence and National Security: General Scheme of the Defence (Amendment) Bill 2025: Discussion (29 May 2025)
Tom Clonan: What is the logic of increasing the number from 12 troops to 50 troops? What is the significance of the number 50? What is the strategic or military thinking informing such a number?
- Committee on Defence and National Security: General Scheme of the Defence (Amendment) Bill 2025: Discussion (29 May 2025)
Tom Clonan: There is, therefore, no military context. It is purely a notional figure.