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Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (10 Jul 2025)

Tom Clonan: Bienvenue en Irlande to our French allies and great friends. Vive la France. It is great to celebrate France and Ireland; the Iiberté, égalité, fraternité, and now sororité, that exist between our countries. Today also marks the anniversary of the massacre at Srebrenica. I was proud to serve in former Yugoslavia with the Organisation for Security and Co-operation...

Seanad: Defamation (Amendment) Bill 2024: Second Stage (9 Jul 2025)

Tom Clonan: On a point of order, I think there is a clear inference there of a conflict of interest. I think it is unfair-----

Seanad: Defamation (Amendment) Bill 2024: Second Stage (9 Jul 2025)

Tom Clonan: -----and I do not think it behoves this House to introduce that type of argument or narrative here.

Seanad: Defamation (Amendment) Bill 2024: Second Stage (9 Jul 2025)

Tom Clonan: I did not want to speak.

Seanad: Pregnancy Loss (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2025: Second Stage (9 Jul 2025)

Tom Clonan: I thank the Minister for being here. I commend the Pregnancy Loss (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2025 and Senator Ryan and my colleagues in Sinn Féin who co-sponsored the Bill. It is very important and, as has been set out by colleagues, this is the least we can do in marking this loss. The most extraordinary thing we can do as human beings is bring life into the world. I have...

Committee on Disability Matters: Progressing the Delivery of Disability Policy and Services: Discussion (Resumed) (9 Jul 2025)

Tom Clonan: I thank the witnesses for attending and Mr. Herrick for his presentation. It is great to see Dr. McDonagh again. I am sorry she got delayed on the way in. I have a question for all three witnesses. I know Mr. Herrick is relatively new; his is a relatively recent appointment. I congratulate him on that. I am delighted to see him in the role. I relied heavily on many of his publications...

Committee on Disability Matters: Progressing the Delivery of Disability Policy and Services: Discussion (Resumed) (9 Jul 2025)

Tom Clonan: I thank the Chair for allowing me to come in a second time. I want to apologise. I am on the health committee, which is why I have been coming and going. I will pick up where we left off and the first principles of legislative rights for disabled citizens. I am concerned that the only legal right disabled citizens have at the moment is the legal right to an assessment of need and I hear...

Committee on Disability Matters: Progressing the Delivery of Disability Policy and Services: Discussion (Resumed) (9 Jul 2025)

Tom Clonan: On the issue of the medical model, Ireland is so much an outlier that we do not even meet the basic threshold for compliance with the medical model. We have children who cannot get routine surgeries. I have noticed that some Government figures have begun to mobilise the medical model as a way of saying, "That is the medical model” or "Diagnosis is a bad word" but we are not even...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Legal and Policy Gaps in Adult Safeguarding: Discussion (9 Jul 2025)

Tom Clonan: The witnesses are all very welcome. I thank them for coming here. I apologise; I am on the Committee on Disability Matters so I am over and back to the meeting. Ms Rickard-Clarke mentioned culture. The Irish Human Rights and Equality Commission is reporting on the gaps in Ireland's implementation of the UNCRPD and that issue of culture comes up again and again. It was mentioned that we...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Legal and Policy Gaps in Adult Safeguarding: Discussion (9 Jul 2025)

Tom Clonan: What is it called? I did not catch that.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Legal and Policy Gaps in Adult Safeguarding: Discussion (9 Jul 2025)

Tom Clonan: Are we the only jurisdiction that-----

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Further and Higher Education (3 Jul 2025)

Tom Clonan: I thank the Minister of State for attending this morning to hear this Commencement matter. A new professional doctorate in educational psychology will commence in September and the Government has very generously made available a bursary of €40,000 per student at taxpayers' expense. I do not know if it is generally understood in Cabinet that this course will only qualify its graduates...

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Further and Higher Education (3 Jul 2025)

Tom Clonan: NEPS is a great service and it absolutely needs to recruit educational psychologists, but this method is tailoring a doctoral training course to be specific to the needs of NEPS to the exclusion of all the other areas where the need is more acute while children are going into psychological distress for want of a brief intervention. Some of those children go on to develop serious issues and...

Committee on Defence and National Security: General Scheme of the Defence (Amendment) Bill 2025: Discussion (Resumed) (3 Jul 2025)

Tom Clonan: I thank the witnesses for attending. We are coming to the end of our pre-legislative scrutiny of this Bill. With specific reference to the triple lock and its impact on neutrality, I want to summarise and ask the witnesses questions about it. On 1 July, we had a number of very experienced military officers, some with a combined total of over 150 years of military service. In our...

Committee on Defence and National Security: General Scheme of the Defence (Amendment) Bill 2025: Discussion (Resumed) (3 Jul 2025)

Tom Clonan: I am sorry to cut across Ms Ní Bhriain. My time is brief. On 29 May, the Department of Defence confirmed explicitly that the upper limit of 12 troops did not apply when Ireland required to send our troops on a rescue mission, for example, to evacuate Irish citizens from a foreign airport. It does not apply when we send troops, if we wish to, to provide assistance to our neighbours or...

Committee on Defence and National Security: General Scheme of the Defence (Amendment) Bill 2025: Discussion (Resumed) (3 Jul 2025)

Tom Clonan: There is no upper limit.

Committee on Defence and National Security: General Scheme of the Defence (Amendment) Bill 2025: Discussion (Resumed) (3 Jul 2025)

Tom Clonan: This is a hypothetical question. What would happen if the UN Security Council Resolution 1701 was not renewed on Lebanon? That resolution allows the Israelis and Hezbollah to give consent for UN peacekeeping forces to be there. I was there when that consent was given. I do not want to say this; I was in command of Irish troops under fire. I had that privilege. We repeatedly and...

Committee on Defence and National Security: General Scheme of the Defence (Amendment) Bill 2025: Discussion (Resumed) (3 Jul 2025)

Tom Clonan: The good we can do is done with the consent of the belligerents. Hezbollah has murdered our troops. They murdered Private Sean Rooney. The Israelis have murdered our troops. Approximately half of our casualties have been inflicted by the Israelis and their proxies and the other 50% is by Hezbollah and other Islamic resistance groups. We have to be realistic. If we abandon the triple...

Committee on Defence and National Security: General Scheme of the Defence (Amendment) Bill 2025: Discussion (Resumed) (3 Jul 2025)

Tom Clonan: I thank the witnesses for coming here today. I can only imagine how demanding their schedules are flying over and back. To give up an afternoon to come here is very much appreciated. As Mr. Andrews said, nobody else has a triple lock; it is unique to Ireland. Nobody else has an Arc de Triomphe except Paris and nobody else has an Empire State Building. The Arc de Triomphe is probably kind...

Committee on Defence and National Security: General Scheme of the Defence (Amendment) Bill 2025: Discussion (Resumed) (3 Jul 2025)

Tom Clonan: Does Mr. Andrews think there is a link between that and the triple lock?