Will the President explain to us what Section 1 is about?
Constitution (Amendment No. 14) Bill—Third, Fourth and Fifth Stages.
The Dáil went into Committee.
SECTION 1.
Article 39 of the Constitution shall be and is hereby amended by the deletion of the last sentence now contained therein, that is to say, the sentence beginning with the words "If rejected" and ending with the word "motion."
It is a question of a Bill that is initiated by the Seanad and which comes down here, and which cannot be reintroduced in the same session if it is rejected by Dáil Eireann. There is a certain amount of doubt as to what a session means. Up to the present it might mean that if a Bill once came down here and was rejected by Dáil Eireann, it could not come down again for three or four years. This is to clear up that situation.
We had one example: a Bill came down from the Seanad which, if it had been introduced six months later, probably would have passed. I think it was the Wild Birds Protection Bill.
Sections 1 and 2 and the Title put and agreed to.
Ordered that the Bill be reported.
The Dáil went out of Committee.
Bill reported without amendment.
Is there any objection to taking the Report Stage now?
No, it is only a little Bill.
Question—"That the Bill be received for Final Consideration"— put and agreed to.
I move: "That the Bill do now pass."
Question put and agreed to.