Committee Reports > List of Committees > Dáil > 1933 > Committee on Procedure and Privileges > Report No. 01 - Amendment of Standing Orders

FIRST REPORT OF THE COMMITTEE ON PROCEDURE AND PRIVILEGES.

Amendment of Standing Orders.

1. Amendments to the Standing Orders of the Dáil relative to Public Business rendered necessary in consequence of the provisions of Section 3 of the Electoral (Amendment) Act, 1933, (No. 14 of 1933), have been considered by the Committee on Procedure and Privileges.

2. The Committee recommends the following Amendments of the existing Standing Orders:—

A. The deletion of Standing Order No. 1 and the substitution of the following Standing Order:—

1. (1) There shall be a Roll of Members of Dáil Eireann which shall be signed by every Deputy, before taking his seat, in the presence of the Clerk.

(2) When all the returns to Writs issued for a general election to the Dáil shall have come into his hands, the Clerk shall notify all Deputies returned that their attendance is required at a place appointed and on a day (or days) named by him, which day (or days) shall be prior to the date mentioned in the Proclamation convening the Oireachtas, for the purpose of complying with the provisions of paragraph (1) of this Standing Order.

B. The deletion in Standing Order No. 125, paragraph (4), of the words and figures “Article 17 of the Constitution” and the substitution of the words and figures “paragraph (1) of Standing order No. 1.”

PROINNSIAS O FATHAIGH,

Chairman.

5th October, 1933.