I move Article 38:—"A Bill may be initiated in the Senate/Seanad Eireann, and if passed by the Senate/Seanad shall be introduced into the Chamber/Dáil Eireann. If amended by the Chamber/Dáil the Bill shall be considered as a Bill initiated in the Chamber/Dáil. If rejected by the Chamber/Dáil it shall not be introduced again in the same session, but the Chamber/Dáil may reconsider it on its own motion." That gives to the Upper House, the Senate, the power of initiating legislation. A Member of the Senate can bring in his Private Bill there and have it discussed, and have it passed there. Having been passed there, it comes down to the Dáil. If it is amended at the Dáil the Bill shall be considered as if it were a Bill brought in for the first time in that Chamber, and shall go on in the ordinary way to the Senate. If rejected it is not introduced again in the same session. The last part is added so as not to make that absolutely imperative. "It shall not be introduced again in the same session on the initiative of the Senate," but if the Dáil at second thought on the matter wish to reconsider it, it would be free to bring it in.
Motion made and question put: "That Article 38 stand part of the Bill."
Agreed.