Results 1-5 of 5 for destroyed speaker:Tom Clonan
- Seanad: Situation in the Middle East: Statements (20 Feb 2024)
Tom Clonan: .... Israel is concentrating 1.8 million people in a ghetto for summary slaughter. There is no other way to describe it. It has no strategic benefit and will not achieve the war aims set out by Benjamin Netanyahu, destroy Hamas or eradicate its leadership. I stand in solidarity with other Senators to condemn what has happened. I have witnessed at first hand that slaughter and find it...
- Seanad: Protected Disclosures (Amendment) Bill 2022: Second Stage (25 May 2022)
Tom Clonan: ...forces and An Garda Síochána. However, there is one thing we as a species cannot tolerate and that is sexual assault, sexual abuse and rape. That organisation did everything in its power to destroy me as a person and my family. It sent the military police to my house to intimidate me, my wife and our young child. This was not Shanghai or Myanmar or Beijing. This was Dún...
- Seanad: Protected Disclosures (Amendment) Bill 2022: Second Stage (25 May 2022)
Tom Clonan: ...organisations from accepting anonymous disclosures in the proposed new section 5A(1). After what I have said, and after what my good friend Maurice McCabe experienced, where they not only tried to destroy him existentially but tried to destroy his relationship and his family, the Government expects people to dispense with their anonymity? The Government must listen to whistleblowers and...
- Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (12 May 2022)
Tom Clonan: ...and bullets by both the Ukrainian and Russian militaries. I am conscious of that when I look at the pictures from Ukraine. Wherever one sees a burnt-out vehicle or a building that has been destroyed, there will be massive amounts of depleted uranium present in the environment. It is a highly toxic contaminant. It is used as a hardened projectile or a penetrating tip but when it hits...
- Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (5 May 2022)
Tom Clonan: ...courtesy of Russa-1, Moscow's state television, in which we were shown an infographic purporting to show a submarine nuclear drone that would have the power to generate a tsunami or tidal wave to destroy both Ireland and our neighbours in Britain. As the Kremlin spokesperson put it, it would turn both Ireland and Britain into a nuclear desert. While I think the idea is farcical and...