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Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (6 Mar 2024)

Tom Clonan: Hear, hear.

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (6 Mar 2024)

Tom Clonan: Hear, hear.

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (6 Mar 2024)

Tom Clonan: Hear, hear.

Seanad: International Women's Day: Statements (6 Mar 2024)

Tom Clonan: Cuirim fáilte roimh an Aire. On International Women’s Day, I wish to speak about the women in my life. My grandmother, who was born in 1900 in Killorglin, came to Dublin at 16 years of age to become a primary school teacher. She participated in a citizens’ assembly in 1916 – the Rising – where she took matters into her own hands to achieve a republic of...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Disability Matters: An Inclusive Education for an Inclusive Society: Discussion (28 Feb 2024)

Tom Clonan: I apologise. I was in the Seanad for votes. I am sorry that I missed the presentations and have come late. I want to say that Dr. Banks that 40 years ago this year, that young man over there, Dr. Travers, and I entered the school of education in Trinity College Dublin and are proud graduates of it. He has done very well for himself. He was not very promising at the start of that. It is...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Disability Matters: An Inclusive Education for an Inclusive Society: Discussion (28 Feb 2024)

Tom Clonan: In Ireland we celebrate difference in other categories of people. We celebrate it, support it and promote it. With our community it seems to be a singular exceptional case where it is seen almost exclusively as a deficit. The word burden has been used to me. Even in the wording of the care amendment, the bonds that exist between people, I do not know if that is an international phenomenon...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Disability Matters: An Inclusive Education for an Inclusive Society: Discussion (28 Feb 2024)

Tom Clonan: Is the Department amenable to research-informed and research-led expertise in informing policy or does it see the alliance as an outlying silo that it does not really consult with?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Disability Matters: An Inclusive Education for an Inclusive Society: Discussion (28 Feb 2024)

Tom Clonan: Did Dr. Banks say, "in the past"?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Disability Matters: An Inclusive Education for an Inclusive Society: Discussion (28 Feb 2024)

Tom Clonan: I will talk to her again because I know we are under pressure for time.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Disability Matters: An Inclusive Education for an Inclusive Society: Discussion (28 Feb 2024)

Tom Clonan: The witnesses are very welcome, and I thank them for coming in. I will just disclose that I was a primary school teacher in a previous life. I am a recovering primary school teacher. It was a long time ago. I have a question for the witnesses about something that intrigues me. The NCSE announced last year that it was entering into a special partnership with the charity AsIAm to provide...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Disability Matters: An Inclusive Education for an Inclusive Society: Discussion (28 Feb 2024)

Tom Clonan: Did other organisations compete for that?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Disability Matters: An Inclusive Education for an Inclusive Society: Discussion (28 Feb 2024)

Tom Clonan: Afterwards, could the witnesses supply me with all the information in writing about all that? I am very curious about how this came about. Would that be possible?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Disability Matters: An Inclusive Education for an Inclusive Society: Discussion (28 Feb 2024)

Tom Clonan: Just to be clear, though, do Down Syndrome Ireland, the Cerebral Palsy Foundation and Spina Bifida Hydrocephalus Ireland come into schools and provide services for monetary gain?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Disability Matters: An Inclusive Education for an Inclusive Society: Discussion (28 Feb 2024)

Tom Clonan: Well, the NCSE has not announced any special partnerships with them-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Disability Matters: An Inclusive Education for an Inclusive Society: Discussion (28 Feb 2024)

Tom Clonan: What AsIAm is doing is completely different from feeding in information, let us say, on policy formation, but it is the NCSE's special partner in providing a service to schools.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Disability Matters: An Inclusive Education for an Inclusive Society: Discussion (28 Feb 2024)

Tom Clonan: I thank Ms Walsh.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Disability Matters: An Inclusive Education for an Inclusive Society: Discussion (28 Feb 2024)

Tom Clonan: In terms of the ambition for what we need to support inclusive education, is the vision for this to be provided by the State on a statutory basis? That should be the case, rather than it being subcontracted out ad hoc to charities and section 39 organisations. We have seen the dysfunction of the latter approach in other elements of supports for disabled citizens.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Disability Matters: An Inclusive Education for an Inclusive Society: Discussion (28 Feb 2024)

Tom Clonan: I thank Ms Walsh. There is no implied criticism of AsIAm or the NCSE; I am just curious about the mechanism. As a public representative with a special interest in this area and in the attempt to influence the formation of policy, ideologically I am located in a space where the State should provide.

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Hospital Services (27 Feb 2024)

Tom Clonan: I thank the Minister of State for coming here today. I was informed last night that it was she who would be here. I was very pleased to hear that, not only because she is my local representative, of course, but also because I know her to be a person of absolute intellectual and ethical integrity. I know that the Minister of State will understand the import of the matter I am going to raise...