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)

FIRST REPORT OF THE COMMITTEE.

1. The questions referred to the Committee by the Resolution of the Dáil of Friday, the 2nd of March, 1928—

(1) whether 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 returned to serve in the Dáil for that Constituency at the General Election held on the 15th day of September 1927 is one and the same person as James Larkin described as of 54 Beechwood Avenue Ranelagh in the County of Dublin Labour Organiser who on the 21st day of November 1924 was adjudicated bankrupt by a Court of competent jurisdiction in Saorstát Eireann; and

(2) if James Larkin described as of Unity Hall 31 Marlboro’ Street in the City of Dublin be one and the same person as James Larkin described as of 54 Beechwood Avenue Ranelagh in the County of Dublin, whether the said James Larkin described as of Unity Hall 31 Marlboro’ Street in the City of Dublin was on the 15th day of September 1927 an undischarged bankrupt under an adjudication by a Court of competent jurisdiction in Saorstát Eireann,

have been inquired into by the Committee.

2. The Committee examined certain official files and heard evidence from the Returning Officer for the Borough Constituency of Dublin North at the General Election of September, 1927.

3. As a result of that examination, and of the evidence given before it, the Committee reports that it 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.

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

MÍCHEÁL O hAODHA.

Chairman.

9th March, 1928.