Committee Reports > List of Committees > Dáil > 1938 > Committee on Procedure and Privileges > Report No. 02 - Amendments to Standing Orders (Consequent on the establishment of Seanad Éireann)

SECOND REPORT OF THE COMMITTEE ON PROCEDURE AND PRIVILEGES.

Amendment of Standing Orders relative to Public Business rendered necessary by the establishment of Seanad Eireann.

At a meeting on the 4th May, the Committee considered certain proposed amendments of the Standing Orders in connection with the certification of Money Bills, the transmission of Bills to the Seanad, and the consideration of Seanad amendments or recommendations. The Committee recommends that the Standing Orders be amended as set forth in the Schedule to this Report.

PROINNSIAS O FATHAIGH,

Chairman.

4th May, 1938.

SCHEDULE.

Standing Order No. 110 to be deleted and the following Standing Orders to be substituted therefor:—

Money Bills.

110. Immediately after a Bill, which in his opinion is a money Bill, has passed the Dáil, and before it is sent to the Seanad, the Ceann Comhairle shall issue his certificate as required by Article 22 of the Constitution, and he shall announce that fact to the Dáil. He shall also cause a notification to be transmitted immediately to the Chairman of the Seanad, informing him of the certification of any such Bill.