Results 101-120 of 641 for speaker:Tom Clonan
- Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Hospital Waiting Lists (31 Jan 2024)
Tom Clonan: Is the Minister of State entitled to speak?
- Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Hospital Waiting Lists (31 Jan 2024)
Tom Clonan: I know the Minister of State wants to speak.
- Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Hospital Waiting Lists (31 Jan 2024)
Tom Clonan: I tabled a Commencement matter to get an informed response from the Department, not to get somebody coming in here and talking the matter by the seat of their pants. No disrespect to the Minister of State, but does he know anything about orthopaedic care?
- Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Hospital Waiting Lists (31 Jan 2024)
Tom Clonan: Children in the Gallery, you go home and tell your parents what a circus this Seanad is. Tell them how we treat disabled children in this country.
- Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Hospital Waiting Lists (31 Jan 2024)
Tom Clonan: This is a civics lesson in how parliamentary democracy is abused.
- Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Hospital Waiting Lists (31 Jan 2024)
Tom Clonan: I thank the Minister of State. I have one minute to respond. I appreciate that the Minister of State, out of respect for the process, has undertaken to respond. I want him to know that we have 150 disabled children in need of complex spinal surgery. Children like my son are being allowed to deteriorate because of a vendetta by the board of CHI against two senior surgeons who raised...
- Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Hospital Waiting Lists (31 Jan 2024)
Tom Clonan: Where is the Minister? I am sorry, Acting Chairperson, you are going to have to remove me from this Chamber.
- Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Hospital Waiting Lists (31 Jan 2024)
Tom Clonan: I do not care. There are 150 children in extreme pain.
- Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Hospital Waiting Lists (31 Jan 2024)
Tom Clonan: I have raised this matter before. Nobody is listening. What does the Acting Chairperson expect me to do?
- Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Hospital Waiting Lists (31 Jan 2024)
Tom Clonan: What if it was your child, Acting Chairperson? What if it was the Minister of State's child? If the Acting Chairperson's child became permanently paralysed-----
- Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Hospital Waiting Lists (31 Jan 2024)
Tom Clonan: -----would he invoke Standing Orders? Would you invoke a one-minute limit on a response?
- Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Hospital Waiting Lists (31 Jan 2024)
Tom Clonan: I am not going-----
- Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Hospital Waiting Lists (31 Jan 2024)
Tom Clonan: You are going to have to remove me from this Chamber.
- Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Hospital Waiting Lists (31 Jan 2024)
Tom Clonan: This is emblematic of the way that this Government, and Irish policy, treat disabled people.
- Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Hospital Waiting Lists (31 Jan 2024)
Tom Clonan: I will not take my seat. You are going to have to remove me from this Chamber.
- Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Hospital Waiting Lists (31 Jan 2024)
Tom Clonan: I am not taking my seat.
- Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Hospital Waiting Lists (31 Jan 2024)
Tom Clonan: Suspend away.
- Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Hospital Waiting Lists (31 Jan 2024)
Tom Clonan: This is an absolute disgrace. If anybody looking on or listening to this ever doubted the contempt with which disabled citizens and carers are held in this country, here is the evidence. This is the proof of it.
- Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Hospital Waiting Lists (31 Jan 2024)
Tom Clonan: I was outside the gates for 20 years protesting, protests that fell on deaf ears.
- Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Hospital Waiting Lists (31 Jan 2024)
Tom Clonan: I got elected by the people to come in here and was given a mandate to raise these issues. When I come into this Chamber, what I have to say falls on deaf ears. They do not even turn up to listen to the matters that are being raised.