I beg to move that Article 58 in the Report be substituted for Article 57 in the Draft Constitution. It reads:—
"The appointment of a member of the Chamber/Dáil to be a Minister shall not entail upon him any obligation to resign his seat, or to submit himself for re-election."
A new Government comes in, a Ministry is formed, and surely it is desirable to save constituencies the expense of sending back a man who has been appointed to a high office, merely for the sake of being re-elected.
The Dáil agreed to the acceptance of the amendment.