Results 41-60 of 857 for speaker:Tom Clonan
- Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Health Service Executive (25 Sep 2024)
Tom Clonan: I am sorry, but on a point of order.This family has relinquished its anonymity.
- Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Health Service Executive (25 Sep 2024)
Tom Clonan: Therefore, not only is it appropriate for the HSE to comment on an individual case but it is obliged to.
- Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Health Service Executive (25 Sep 2024)
Tom Clonan: This is a rhetorical device that is used to protect it and indemnify it from responsibility and I reject it.
- Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Health Service Executive (25 Sep 2024)
Tom Clonan: It is a point of order.
- Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Health Service Executive (25 Sep 2024)
Tom Clonan: That rhetorical device should not be accepted in this House.
- Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Health Service Executive (25 Sep 2024)
Tom Clonan: I thank the Minister of State for that information. On a personal level, I thank him for deviating from the brief he was given to try to address some of my questions. I do appreciate it. Again, I apologise for the comments I made about what I called the rhetorical device. I know it was not something the Minister of State wrote himself. I reiterate that it is personal to the Minister of...
- Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (25 Sep 2024)
Tom Clonan: On our return to the House, I wish to raise Israel’s escalation of the conflict in the Middle East.I highlight to the House that in the past 36 hours, Israel has launched three separate waves of airstrikes across south Lebanon, deep into the Beqaa Valley, and striking targets in Beirut, in Dahieh province, which is a suburb. In that period, Israel has slaughtered more than 500 people....
- Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (25 Sep 2024)
Tom Clonan: Hear, hear.
- Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (25 Sep 2024)
Tom Clonan: Hear, hear.
- Joint Committee On Children, Equality, Disability, Integration And Youth: General Scheme of the Maternity Protection (Amendment) and Miscellaneous Provisions Bill 2024: Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth (24 Sep 2024)
Tom Clonan: I thank the Minister for attending. I share the concerns of fellow committee members from all parties about a number of issues, including the timing of the delivery of these letters with, for example, one on the afternoon the committee was due to meet. Why was it not possible to give us greater notice of these issues arising? The Chair asked whether legal complexities were causing the...
- Joint Committee On Children, Equality, Disability, Integration And Youth: General Scheme of the Maternity Protection (Amendment) and Miscellaneous Provisions Bill 2024: Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth (24 Sep 2024)
Tom Clonan: I am sorry to disturb the Minister. I am anxious to know what advice he got from the Office of the Attorney General to explain that with regard to legal issues arising.
- Joint Committee On Children, Equality, Disability, Integration And Youth: General Scheme of the Maternity Protection (Amendment) and Miscellaneous Provisions Bill 2024: Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth (24 Sep 2024)
Tom Clonan: I am sorry; the Minister got no advice whatsoever of any nature from the Office of the Attorney General.
- Joint Committee On Children, Equality, Disability, Integration And Youth: General Scheme of the Maternity Protection (Amendment) and Miscellaneous Provisions Bill 2024: Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth (24 Sep 2024)
Tom Clonan: The specific question was whether the Minister received any legal advice from the Office of the Attorney General on the NDAs. The Minister said he got advice from legal advisers in the various Departments, but the question I am trying to get finality on is whether he got any legal advice from the Office of the Attorney General.
- Joint Committee On Children, Equality, Disability, Integration And Youth: General Scheme of the Maternity Protection (Amendment) and Miscellaneous Provisions Bill 2024: Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth (24 Sep 2024)
Tom Clonan: Will the Minister furnish to the committee the advice that came from the Office of the Attorney General? Will he tell us what it was?
- Joint Committee On Children, Equality, Disability, Integration And Youth: General Scheme of the Maternity Protection (Amendment) and Miscellaneous Provisions Bill 2024: Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth (24 Sep 2024)
Tom Clonan: Okay, but this is a semiotic issue now because I asked the Minister whether he got any advice from the Office of the Attorney General and he said that de facto, in practice, the legal advisers in Departments are seconded from and really speak for the Office of the Attorney General. That being the case, I take it the Minister got advice from the Office of the Attorney General. It is either a...
- Joint Committee On Children, Equality, Disability, Integration And Youth: General Scheme of the Maternity Protection (Amendment) and Miscellaneous Provisions Bill 2024: Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth (24 Sep 2024)
Tom Clonan: It is not the process I am addressing, however. It is the actual substance of whether the Minister got advice from the Office of the Attorney General. It is a "Yes" or "No" answer.
- Joint Committee On Children, Equality, Disability, Integration And Youth: General Scheme of the Maternity Protection (Amendment) and Miscellaneous Provisions Bill 2024: Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth (24 Sep 2024)
Tom Clonan: So, that is a "Yes".
- Joint Committee On Children, Equality, Disability, Integration And Youth: General Scheme of the Maternity Protection (Amendment) and Miscellaneous Provisions Bill 2024: Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth (24 Sep 2024)
Tom Clonan: The Minister is saying the Department did not receive any advice from the Office of the Attorney General.
- Joint Committee On Children, Equality, Disability, Integration And Youth: General Scheme of the Maternity Protection (Amendment) and Miscellaneous Provisions Bill 2024: Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth (24 Sep 2024)
Tom Clonan: I am not asking if the Department got-----
- Joint Committee On Children, Equality, Disability, Integration And Youth: General Scheme of the Maternity Protection (Amendment) and Miscellaneous Provisions Bill 2024: Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth (24 Sep 2024)
Tom Clonan: It is a "Yes" or "No" answer. Did the Department get legal advice from the Office of the Attorney General?