Results 1-20 of 34 for long speaker:Tom Clonan

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Disability Matters: United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities at Local Level: Discussion (Resumed) (1 May 2024)

Tom Clonan: ...statistics. I was really struck by that figure of 2.8% of people applying with a declared disability. The statistic itself was called out: 22% of the population declared themselves as having a long-standing illness. Unlike other protected categories of citizens - on the basis of LGBTQI+, ethnicity, religious formation or whatever - all of us are likely to become disabled. I think the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Disability Matters: The United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities at Local Level: Discussion (Resumed) (17 Apr 2024)

Tom Clonan: ..., and they are all fully accessible. Engineering should be able to resolve this. The witnesses have said they are working on this. This is nothing personal to Mr. Kenny. He and I go back a very long way, but the DART and Iarnród Éireann are inaccessible to somebody like my son. We do not use them and cannot use them because of the lifts and the requirement to inform the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Disability Matters: The United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities at Local Level: Discussion (Resumed) (17 Apr 2024)

Tom Clonan: I am delighted to hear that. I know that his hands are tied because Irish Rail is depending on funding from other agencies and so on. I will finish now, Chair. I am sorry for going on for so long. One of the things we lack here is ambition. I do not know what it is about Ireland. Whether it is a post-Catholic phenomenon or a post-colonial thing, there is this idea that if a person is...

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...

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: ...because he is nice and warm in the morning and we cannot get physiotherapy elsewhere. Having pointed out that I am one of those people who gets up early in the morning, I asked him to promise that as long as he was in this new office as one of the most senior officers in the land, he would no longer impose any austerity cuts on families like mine, on the disabled and on the most...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Disability Matters: Planning for Inclusive Communities: Discussion (Resumed) (17 Jan 2024)

Tom Clonan: ...then internalises that inconsistency and it becomes a real inhibition. Why is there that inconsistency and where are we at in having the brokerage model recognised on a national level? I am sorry about the long-winded question but I think some of the answers are pretty short. With regard to Fingal, Meath and Galway, and I know it is probably a hard question to answer, if I go on a...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Disability Matters: Planning for Inclusive Communities: Discussion (Resumed) (17 Jan 2024)

Tom Clonan: It is difficult to find a one-stop shop where I can get all the information. Quickly, because I know we are under pressure for time, how long is the average waiting list in Meath, Galway and Fingal?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Disability Matters: Planning for Inclusive Communities: Discussion (Resumed) (17 Jan 2024)

Tom Clonan: Apart from the variables, approximately how long does it take? Is it a year, two years, three years or five years?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Assisted Dying: Engagement with People with Disabilities (16 Jan 2024)

Tom Clonan: ...slaughtered. I have seen death in its slow iteration, and I have seen it happen quickly and catastrophically to people. With regard to a good or bad death, I would like to postpone my own for as long as possible, if that is possible. With specific reference to disabled citizens, my question is this: how can you make an empowered, equitable and equal decision about death and dying when...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Disability Matters: Rights-Based Care for People with Disabilities: Discussion (8 Nov 2023)

Tom Clonan: It was the beginning of a long campaign that ultimately bore fruit.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Disability Matters: Ensuring Inclusive Local and EU Elections: Discussion (25 Oct 2023)

Tom Clonan: ...hope, and others. On a more serious note, and it is a question for everybody, I refer to the parliament for disabled persons in Europe. I note there was one in the Northern Ireland Assembly not long ago. Have we had a disabled parliament here in Oireachtas Éireann? I imagine that would be a good idea, as Mr. Dolan says, on two levels, namely, to promote the public participation...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (24 Oct 2023)

Tom Clonan: ...in respect of Children's Hospital Ireland, CHI, as it impacts on disabled children with scoliosis and other complications arising from having been left on waiting lists for catastrophically long periods of time. I reiterate that the medical device directive at European Union level came into effect around 2018 or 2019, and was then translated into the medical device regulations, MDRs in...

Seanad: Children's University Hospital Temple Street: Motion (4 Oct 2023)

Tom Clonan: ...surgeons who have highlighted the absolutely glaring inconsistencies between practice and what was presented at the health committee last week. We need accountability, but we do not have time to wait. As long as we wait and surgeries are suspended, children like my son are impacted. A woman at the committee meeting last week spoke of how her daughter's condition is now inoperable. I...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Spinal Surgery Issues at Children's University Hospital Temple Street: Children's Health Ireland (28 Sep 2023)

Tom Clonan: It was stated that the Boston team arrived on a Sunday at Dr. Goldman's invitation. How long did they stay in Ireland?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Spinal Surgery Issues at Children's University Hospital Temple Street: Children's Health Ireland (28 Sep 2023)

Tom Clonan: ...had spinal surgery in Temple Street hospital in 2018. He was 18 years old. He should have had that surgery when he was around 12 but he did not because it is Ireland and he was on an extremely long waiting list. His curvature was so pronounced that it compressed his organs and compromised his lung function so that he had something like 20% lung function. I do not know what the...

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

Tom Clonan: ...asked if she was challenged. At the same time, the Cabinet gives an instruction to kill legislation that would legally oblige them to do their job. I apologise to the Chair, as I have gone on too long. I know I am exercised, because I get this every day. I do not hear from Trinity graduates. I do not hear from them at all. I hear from hundreds, at this stage thousands of people in...

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Protected Disclosures (20 Jun 2023)

Tom Clonan: I thank the Minister of State. He and I both know that the correct thing to do here is publish the report in full. It is 500 pages long, so a very small executive summary is not enough. What we are talking about here is an international standard. If a report is commissioned, then its findings and recommendations must be published in order that we can learn from them and contribute...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (13 Jun 2023)

Tom Clonan: ...themes in the comments made is the collegiality he brought to the Chamber. Since I arrived here, I have experienced that generosity and collegiality from colleagues. It is a great legacy and long may it continue in both of these Houses. In that spirit of collegiality, I wish to bring to the attention of the House yet again the fact that we still do not know the names or identities of...