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IMEACHTAI AN CHOMHCHOISTE.PROCEEDINGS OF THE JOINT COMMITTEE.Dé hAoine, 4 Márta, 1966.Friday, 4th March, 1966.1. The Committee met at 11.20 a.m. 2. Members Present. The following members were present:— Deputies Booth, de Valera and Larkin; Senators Nash, O’Quigley and Sheldon. 3. Election of Temporary Chairman. The Clerk to the Committee announced that the Chairman, Deputy Sweetman, was unable to attend because of illness. Motion made (Deputy Larkin): “That Senator Sheldon be Chairman of this meeting.” Question put, and agreed to. Senator Sheldon took the Chair accordingly. 4. Appearances for the Promoters. Mr. W.R.C. Parke, S.C. and Messrs. Moore, Keily and Lloyd, Parliamentary Agents, appeared for the Promoters, the Trustees of the French Huguenot Fund. 5. Appearances for the Petitioner. Mr. Herbert R. McWilliam, B.L. and Messrs. McMahon and Tweedy, Parliamentary Agents, appeared for the Petitioner, Mr. William Percival Le Clerc. Room cleared. 6. Consideration of Bill. The Committee took the Bill into consideration. (i) Section 1 agreed to. (ii) Section 2. Amendment proposed: “In subsection (1), page 3, line 34 to add after the words ‘and shall be carried into effect’ the words ‘subject to the provisions of section 3 of this Act’.” Amendment, by leave, withdrawn. Section agreed to. (iii) Section 3. Amendment proposed: “To delete subsection (6), page 4, in its entirety and to substitute the following subsection (6):— ‘(6) Not less than two months after the date of first publication of the notice required to be published by subsection (2) of this section, the Company shall remove or cause to be removed from the cemetery the remains of all deceased persons interred therein other than remains in respect of which notice has been given under subsection (3) of this section and cause them to be re-interred in accordance with the rites of the French Reformed Church in a plot of ground in Mount Jerome Cemetery consecrated in accordance with the rites of the French Reformed Church or in a plot of ground so consecrated as aforesaid in such other burial ground or cemetery within the City of Dublin wherein interments may lawfully take place as shall be approved by the Trustees in writing and to be purchased by the Company in accordance with paragraph 4 (a) of the proposal.’” Amendment agreed to. Amendment proposed: “Before subsection (7) to insert the following new subsection:— ( ) The Trustees shall provide out of the purchase money for the perpetual care of the plot purchased in accordance with subsection (6) hereof.’” Amendment agreed to. Amendment proposed: “Before subsection (7) to insert the following new subsection:— ‘( ) The plot of ground to be purchased as provided by subsection (6) hereof shall be of such extent that, after the re-interment in such plot of ground of the remains of all deceased persons interred in the cemetery, there will be space in such plot of ground for the burial there in the future of the remains of not less than six such persons as would be entitled to burial in the cemetery were it not acquired by the Company.’” Amendment amended, by leave, to read as follows: “Before subsection (7) to insert the following new subsection:— ‘( ) The plot of ground to be purchased as provided by subsection (6) hereof shall be of such extent that, after the re-interment in such plot of ground of the remains of all deceased persons interred in the cemetery, there will be space in such plot of ground for the burial there in the future of the remains of not more than six such persons of Huguenot descent as shall satisfy the Trustees that it would have been proper for such persons to be interred in the cemetery were it not acquired by the Company.’” Amendment, as amended, withdrawn. Amendment proposed: “Before subsection (8) to insert the following new subsection:— ‘ ( ) The exhumations shall be carried out under the supervision of an officer of the Right Honourable the Lord Mayor, Aldermen and Burgesses of Dublin and in accordance with such directions as the Dublin Chief Medical Officer may give with respect to matters affecting or likely to affect the publichealth.’” Amendment agreed to. Amendment proposed: “Before subsection (8) to insert the following new subsection:— ‘( ) Each re-interment shall be carried out under the supervision of an officer of the sanitary authority in whose functional area the place of re-interment is situate and in accordance with such directions as the Chief Medical Officer or County Medical Officer for that area may give with respect to matters affecting or likely to affect the public health.’” Amendment agreed to. Section, as amended, agreed to. (iv) Sections 4 to 7 inclusive, agreed to. (v) Schedule agreed to. (vi) Title agreed to. 7. Report of Committee. Draft Report brought in by the Chairman (Senator Sheldon) read a first and second time and passed as follows:— 1. The Joint Committee reports that it has examined the Preamble of the Bill and it has found that the allegations therein contained have been proved to its satisfaction. 2. The Committee has gone through the Bill and has made amendments to section 3 in order to ensure that (a) the plot proposed to be acquired under paragraph 4 (a) of the proposal set forth in the Schedule is consecrated in accordance with the rites of the French Reformed Church, (b) certain re-interments are carried out in the said plot in accordance with the rites of the said French Reformed Church, (c) perpetual care is taken of the plot, and (d) exhumations are supervised by an officer of the Corporation of Dublin and in the case of re-interments by an officer of the sanitary authority in whose functional area the place of re-interment is situate. 3. In going through the Bill the Committee had before it, and considered, reports from the Department of Local Government and the Commissioners of Charitable Donations and Bequests for Ireland. It has given effect to the recommendations contained in those reports. Ordered: To report to both Houses accordingly. 8. Conclusion of Business. The Committee concluded its business at 1 p.m. |
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