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OIREACHTAS.

TUARASGABHAIL ON gCO-CHOISTE AR BHILLE TRAMBHEALACH AONTUITHE BHAILE ATHA CLIATH (SEIRBHISI OMNIBUS), 1924, A CUIREADH THAR nAIS.

REPORT OF THE JOINT COMMITTEE ON THE DUBLIN UNITED TRAMWAYS (OMNIBUS SERVICES) BILL, 1924, RECOMMITTED.

1. The Joint Committee was constituted as follows:—

Deputy Liam Thrift, Chairman; Deputies Seoirse Mac Niocaill, P. F. Baxter, and Tadhg O Murchadha; Senators the Earl of Wicklow, J. T. O’Farrell, and William Barrington.

2. The Bill was recommitted to the Joint Committee by resolution of the Seanad dated 9th December, 1924, to consider the following amendments proposed on the Fourth Stage of the Bill in the Seanad, viz.:—

1. Section 3, Paragraph (a), line 12—to delete the words “and the said Minister after public inquiry duly advertised in reference thereto shall determine same.”

2. Section 8, line 24. After the word “luggage” to insert the words “not exceeding 28 lbs in weight.”

3. The Joint Committee held a sitting on Tuesday, 3rd February, 1925.

4. The Joint Committee report that they have considered the proposed amendments and recommend

(i.) in lieu of the proposed amendment to Section 3, the following:—

Section 3, Paragraph (a). To delete the paragraph and to substitute therefor the following paragraphs:—

“(a) The Company before running any omnibus in pursuance of the powers conferred on it by this Act shall from time to time as occasion may require submit to the Minister for Local Government and Public Health for his approval particulars of any route or routes on which the Company proposes to run omnibuses and the Company shall not run omnibuses on any route not previously approved of by the said Minister.

“Before giving his approval to a route for the purposes of this paragraph, the Minister for Local Government and Public Health shall notify every local authority through the area of which such route passes and shall consider any representations made by any such local authority in respect of such route and should he consider it necessary may hold a public local inquiry into the circumstances of the case. This paragraph shall not apply to the running of any omnibus by the Company for the purpose of meeting a public requirement of a temporary nature or an immediate necessity.

“(b) For the purposes of any local inquiry directed by the Minister for Local Government and Public Health under this section inspectors of the said Minister shall have the same powers as if such inquiry had been directed under the Public Health (Ireland) Acts, 1878 to 1919.

“(c) The costs incurred by the Minister for Local Government and Public Health in relation to any local inquiry directed by him under this section, including the salary of any inspector or officer of the said Minister engaged therein not exceeding five guineas a day but not including any costs incurred by any local authority or others appearing at such local inquiry shall be paid by the Company and the said Minister may certify the amount of such costs payable to him and every sum so certified shall be a debt due by the Company to the said Minister.”

(ii.) the adoption of the proposed amendment to Section 8.

5. The Joint Committee also recommend the addition to Section 8 of the following proviso proposed by the Department of Posts and Telegraphs:—

“Provided that the Company shall perform with respect to the omnibuses run by it under the provisions of this Act all such services in regard to the conveyance of mails as the Minister for Posts and Telegraphs is entitled to require from it with respect to its tramways under section 24 of the Dublin United Tramways (Electrical Power) Act, 1897, and the provisions of section 2 and section 5 (1) first paragraph of the Conveyance of Mails Act, 1893, shall apply to the said omnibuses in the same manner as if such omnibuses were tramways within the meaning of the said Act.”

6. In considering the recommitted Bill the Joint Committee have had before them a further report from the Department of Local Government and Public Health. The Joint Committee agree with the Department’s recommendations.

Cathaoirleach an Chó-Choiste.

3adh Feabhra, 1925.