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Seanad: An Bille um an Daicheadú Leasú ar an mBunreacht (Cúram), 2023: Céim an Choiste (Atógáil) agus na Céimeanna a bheidh Fágtha - Fortieth Amendment of the Constitution (Care) Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) and Remaining Stages (23 Jan 2024)

Tom Clonan: ...is presented to us as a series of virtuous acts consciously inflicting harm and pain on the most vulnerable in Irish society. I have had ten years of prim economists, who are the new high priests of Ireland, espousing the virtues of inflicting austerity measures on people. I am confident they will be brought fully and completely into disrepute. That is one of the problems and one of the...

Seanad: An Bille um an Naoú Leasú is Tríocha ar an mBunreacht (An Teaghlach), 2023: An Dara Céim - Thirty-ninth Amendment of the Constitution (The Family) Bill 2023: Second Stage (22 Jan 2024)

Tom Clonan: ..., gives constitutional expression to that paternalistic and disempowering approach. It is not a rights-based approach. It is a philosophical and ideological view. I do not know if it is unique to Ireland in our post-Catholic, post-whatever polity that disability or difference is a "burden" that ought to be borne by the family. Another inflection point came in 2011 following all the...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (26 Oct 2023)

Tom Clonan: ..., Damascus and right over to Sheik Nasrallah in Beirut. They have armed and equipped Hezbollah with tens of thousands of very sophisticated missiles and endless amounts of equipment. There is now a land corridor from Iran to Lebanon and they can support, resupply and reinforce Hezbollah without any interruption. That is why the Americans have placed aircraft carrier battle groups in the...

Seanad: Address to Seanad Éireann by H.E. Maura Healey, Governor of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts (27 Jun 2023)

Tom Clonan: ...emigrants. So close are the connections between our countries, we are indeed family. Washington himself at the early stages of that war, when it was not clear what the outcome would be, said: Ireland, thou friend of my country in my country's most friendless days, much injured, much enduring land, accept this poor tribute ... If defeated everywhere else, I will make my last stand for...

Seanad: Reykjavik Summit of the Council of Europe: Statements (3 May 2023)

Tom Clonan: .... It is likely, in terms of precisely the what, that the Ukrainians will attempt to move on an axis from Kherson through Zaporizhzhia and towards Verdansk on the Sea of Azov in order to cut off Vladimir Putin's land corridor. The question that remains is what will happen next? I agree with my colleague, Senator Ward, that Crimea must be returned to the territory of Ukraine and to the...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (19 Apr 2023)

Tom Clonan: ...in that post. It will raise feelings of alienation among many people we have welcomed to this country. That includes everyone from bus drivers to shopkeepers, to the highest office holders in the land. If a similar post was made by a parliamentarian in any other jurisdiction about an Irish person, we would find it reprehensible. The phrase "no Irish need apply" is a phrase that is held...

Seanad: Ireland's Military Neutrality: Motion [Private Members] (23 Nov 2022)

Tom Clonan: I move: That Seanad Éireann: notes: - that Ireland's military neutrality: - - not being members of an international military alliance - has been and remains a central and invaluable component of our foreign policy since the foundation of the State; - underpins our international status as an independent and impartial voice for peace and the de-escalation of armed conflict and the...

Seanad Public Consultation Committee: Other Voices on the Constitutional Future of the Island of Ireland: Unionist Community (14 Oct 2022)

Tom Clonan: ...Scotland. When I was in the Army I went back to university and I had to do a module on culture and identity. The lecturer asked how I would describe my identity if a spaceship from outer space landed and an alien got out and asked me to describe myself in one sentence. He asked if I am a man, a parent, an Army officer or a brother? I said, "I am inedible." Culture and identity are...

Seanad: Report of the Commission on the Defence Forces: Statements (4 Oct 2022)

Tom Clonan: ...want to say some things about the Defence Forces in general. Page 4 of the report, in the opening remarks and background, mentions the White Papers on Defence of 2015 and 2019 as part of the scoping. Ireland is different from other jurisdictions in the European Union and in the West generally in that these White Papers were basically written by laypersons. I would make the observation...

Seanad Public Consultation Committee: Young Voices on the Constitutional Future of the Island of Ireland: Discussion (30 Sep 2022)

Tom Clonan: ...except for the word "wee". I took exception to that. We forged all of those friendships. I am still friends with some of the people I met 30 years ago. We did that against the backdrop of RUC land rovers, armed RUC patrols and checkpoints, the Ulster Defence Regiment going around in armoured personnel carriers and the British army. That was just part of the backdrop because for me,...

Seanad Public Consultation Committee: Voices of All Communities on the Constitutional Future of the Island of Ireland: Discussion (30 Sep 2022)

Tom Clonan: ...identity crisis and we need to support them in that moment of uncertainty. It has implications for us. I echo what Mr. Swain and others have said. Change is coming very quickly on this island. We are looking at the twin barrels of change. I remember a game I used to play with my sisters called “Ready or not, here I come”. My experience as an Army officer in the Middle...

Seanad: Europe Day 2022: Statements (11 May 2022)

Tom Clonan: ...be brief. I was born on the 50th anniversary of the 1916 rising. Fifty years on from that I was born into a republic that could have been characterised as one of a pitchfork and candlestick. Ireland was quite a poor country in European terms. In the 1970s after we joined the European Economic Community, as it was then, it transformed Ireland on a number of fronts in everything from...