Committee Reports > List of Committees > Dáil > 1928 > Committee on Procedure and Privileges > Report No. 01 - Procedure and Privileges (the Incapacity of James Larkin for Membership of the Oireachtas)

IMEACHTA AN CHOISTE.

PROCEEDINGS OF THE COMMITTEE.

Déardaoin, 8adh Márta, 1928.

Thursday, 8th March, 1928.

1. The Committee met at 10 a.m. in Committee Room No. 2.

2. The following members were present:—

The Ceann Comhairle (in the Chair); Deputies Aiken, G. Boland, Cooper, Duggan, P. S. Doyle, Little, MacEntee, Morrissey, O’Donovan, O’Hanlon and O’Sullivan.

3. In the Matter of James Larkin.

The Committee resumed consideration of the Resolution of the Dáil of 2nd March, 1928.

The Committee deliberated.

Dr. Lorcan Sherlock, Under Sheriff for the City of Dublin, was called and examined.

The Committee deliberated.

Deputy O’Sullivan moved:

“That, after hearing evidence, and after examining certain official files submitted to it, the Committee is satisfied that James Larkin, described as of Unity Hall, 31 Marlboro’ Street, in the City of Dublin, returned by the Returning Officer for the Borough Constituency of Dublin North as one of the eight persons elected to serve in the Dáil for that Constituency at the General Election held on the 15th day of September, 1927, was on that date an undischarged bankrupt under an adjudication by a Court of competent jurisdiction in Saorstát Eireann;

“The Committee consequently answer in the affirmative the two questions referred to it in the Resolution of the Dáil of Friday, March 2nd, 1928.”

Debate ensued.

Deputy O’Sullivan claimed to move, That the Question be now put, but the Chairman withheld his assent, and declined then to put that Question—Then the Committee resumed the Debate.

Ordered: That the Debate be now adjourned.

4. Adjournment.

Ordered: That the Committee do now adjourn until 10 a.m. to-morrow. [Deputy P. S. Doyle.]

The Committee adjourned accordingly at 11.5 a.m. until 10 a.m. to-morrow.