Cuirim rún o bhur gcomhair anois go m-beidh disopoireacht againn ar tuarasgbhail o'n cho-choiste na mBuan-Orduithe.
I move that the report of the Joint Committee on Standing Orders be now considered. As I explained last Friday, it has been found by the Joint Committee that it is necessary to make the suggested changes in order to facilitate the procedure of Private Bill legislation. As Deputies can see from the report, the changes proposed are only minor ones. It has been found desirable that Standing Order No. 41, which allowed notice in connection with Private Bills to be sent in in two periods of the year, namely, March and April and October and November, should be continued, the discretion, however, to lie in the hands of the Chairman of the Joint Committee as to whether the Bills in question were urgent ones. There is, I understand, a somewhat similar provision made in the procedure in the South African Parliament for dealing with matters of this kind. I move: That Standing Order No. 41 of the Standing Orders relative to Private Business be amended as follows:—By deleting in lines 1, 2, 3 and 4 the words "may elect, during the two years next following the date of passing of these Orders by both Houses, to," and substituting therefore the words "may, whenever the exigencies of the case require it and with the consent in writing of the Chairman of the Joint Committee on Standing Orders."
