I move that the Bill be now read a Second Time. The purpose of this Bill is to bring the procedure for conducting a contested presidential election into line with the revised rules for the conduct of a general election. All the sections of the Bill are the same. The same principles apply. There is only one additional section which gives power to notify the name of the President who has been declared elected to certain persons. That is Section 9 of the Bill.
"As soon as may be after the presidential returning officer at a presidential election has declared a candidate (in this section referred to as the President Elect) to have been elected as President, the presidential returning officer shall, in the manner directed by the Government, inform the President, the President-elect, the Taoiseach, the Chief Justice, the Chairman of Dáil Eireann, the Chairman of Seanad Eireann and the Secretary to the President, of the name and address of the President-elect."