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IMEACHTA AN CHOISTE.

PROCEEDINGS OF THE COMMITTEE.

Dé Céadaoin, 18° Mí na Nodlag, 1935.

Wednesday, 18th December, 1935.

1. The Committee met at 11.30 a.m.

2. Present: The Cathaoirleach (in the Chair), the Leas-Chathaoirleach and Senators Brown, Douglas, Lynch, O’Farrell, O’Rourke and Wilson.

3. The business before the Committee was the requisition, signed by fifteen Senators under Standing Order 39, referring to it the ruling of the Cathaoirleach with regard to the Land Purchase (Guarantee Fund) Bill, 1935, delivered on the 12th December, 1935.

4. The Cathaoirleach stated that, while he had come prepared to give the reasons for his ruling, he would prefer not to preside or be present when the Committee was considering its report; but that as some members of the Committee had signed the requisition referring his ruling to the Committee they might be deemed to have prejudged the issue; and he suggested that they, or one of them, should withdraw with him.

The Leas-Chathaoirleach stated that, as one of the signatories to the requisition, he considered that the matter was one on which the opinion of the whole Committee was required.

Senator Douglas moved:—

“That, in the opinion of the Committee, neither the Cathaoirleach nor the members of the Committee who signed the requisition should be regarded as having prejudged the question to be decided by the Committee and that they accordingly should not withdraw.”

Question put, and agreed to.

5. The Committee, having heard the Cathaoirleach’s reason for his ruling, decided:—

(1) that the Cathaoirleach’s ruling was correct;

(2) that a new Standing Order should be added to the Standing Orders to provide for cases

(a) where the Cathaoirleach has reason to believe that a requisition for a Committee of Privileges is in process of being signed in either House of the Oireachtas;

(b) where the Committee of Privileges has been set up,

the Leas-Chathaoirleach and Senator Lynch dissenting.

6. The Committee directed that a draft report on the lines agreed upon be prepared for their consideration at their next meeting.

7. The Committee adjourned at 1.5 p.m.