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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Disability Matters: National Disability Inclusion Strategy: Discussion (20 Sep 2023)

Tom Clonan: I thank the witnesses for coming in. I apologise; as the Minister, Deputy O'Gorman, is before another committee, I will have to leave after their responses to attend it. I was on the DSG and benefited from Ms Dempsey-Clifford's stewardship and her skills as a chair, so I appreciate that very much. As for the NDA's reports, I have a number of young adults and teenagers. My youngest...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Disability Matters: UNCRPD and the Optional Protocol (Resumed): Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth (19 Jan 2023)

Tom Clonan: I bid good morning to the Minister and to all present and I thank the Minister for attending. I am here as a member of this committee but there is also a provision of the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, UNCRPD, for parents and carers to advocate and speak to their lived experience. This is specifically catered for within the UN convention. I am compelled,...

Joint Committee On Children, Equality, Disability, Integration And Youth: Review of Testimonies Provided by Survivors of Mother and Baby Homes: Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth (4 Oct 2022)

Tom Clonan: ...to the issues raised by Deputy Cairns because they fit with my own experience of recording the testimonies of women who were targeted in our Defence Forces for bullying, harassment, sexual assault and rape. In the process that flowed from my PhD, the subsequent Government inquiry, led by Dr. Eileen Doyle, and the revelations of September 2021 from "Women of Honour", it seems to be a...

Seanad: Higher Education Authority Bill 2022: Report Stage (Resumed) (20 Sep 2022)

Tom Clonan: ...section 61 on the strategic development plan of higher education institutions, would have the effect of changing the wording from "students or the students' unions of the institution" to "students and the students' unions of the institution".We propose that it not be one or the other but both to ensure the fullest range of feedback to a governing body or chief executive on strategic...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (21 Jun 2022)

Tom Clonan: ...for meaningful physio intervention. Some 21,000 children are waiting for an occupational therapy appointment, with 10,000 waiting for more than a year. Some 16,000 children are waiting for speech and language therapy. Again, 10,000 are waiting more than a year. For those children that wait is time that cannot be revisited. The interventions must be timely. The damage done to children...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (16 Jun 2022)

Tom Clonan: ...wish to raise a number of issues. This week the Women's Aid Annual Impact Report 2021 was published. I find the contents of it shocking. Its findings are deeply disturbing. We have a persistent and profound problem in Ireland with violence against women. I will quote some of the statistics. According to Women's Aid, 33,831 disclosures of abuse were made during 2021. This represents...