Committee Reports > List of Committees > Seanad > 1923 > Standing Committee on Standing Orders > Report No. 01 - Standing Orders

SEANAD ÉIREANN.

Tuarasgabhail ón mBuan-Choiste ar Bhuan-Órduithe.

(Report of Standing Committee on Standing Orders.)

This Committee was appointed by a Resolution of the Seanad on the 25th January, 1923, pursuant to Article 70 of the Provisional Standing Orders, which is as follows:—

“At the commencement of each Session the Seanad shall appoint a Committee on Standing Orders, which shall consist of the Cathaoirleach and Leas-Chathaoirleach ex officio, and not more than four Senators.”

The Committee so appointed is constituted as follows:—Lord Glenavy, James G. Douglas, Andrew Jameson, John T. O’Farrell, Patrick W. Kenny, Sir John Keane.

The Committee presented a Report to the Seanad on the 5th July, 1923, and it was decided to refer the same back, with a direction that the Committee should consider an amendment to Order 70, proposed by Senator MacPartlin. The Committee have now done so, and make the following recommendations:—

(1) the deletion of the last sentence of Order 56, and the substitution therefor of the words “A Joint Committee shall fix its own quorum.”

(2) the insertion in Order 70, line 9, paragraph 2, after the word “Stage,” of the following:

“but, save in the case of a certified Money Bill, not before the “expiration of three clear days after the circulation of the Bill “as passed by the Dáil.”

(3) the insertion at the end of Orders 100 and 103 of the words “the proceedings for such election to begin de novo.”

Cathaoirleach an Choiste,

Chairman of Committee.

10° Iúil, 1923.