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Dáil Éireann debate -
Thursday, 25 Nov 2010

Vol. 723 No. 2

Orders of Reference to committees: Motion

I move:

(a) That the Order of Dáil Éireann of 23rd October, 2007, as amended, establishing committees of 30th Dáil be amended as follows:

1. in the case of the Joint committee on European Affairs:

(a) the insertion, after ‘Treaty on European Union’ in paragraph 2(a)(i) of ‘and the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union’;

(b) the deletion in paragraph (2)(a) (ii)(I) of ‘Commission of the European Communities’ and the substitution therefor of ‘European Commission’;

(c) the deletion in paragraph (2)(a) (ii)(IV) of ‘European Communities Acts 1972 to 2007’ and the substitution therefor of ‘European Communities Acts 1972 to 2009’;

(d) the insertion of the following paragraphs after paragraph (2) (a)(ii)(VI):

‘(VII) notifications of proposals for the amendment of the Treaties received from the European Council pursuant to Article 48.2 of the Treaty on European Union, and

(VIII) notifications of applications for membership of the European Union received from the European Council pursuant to Article 49 of the Treaty on European Union,';

(e) the insertion of the following paragraph after paragraph (2) (b)(i):

‘(ii) the powers defined in Standing Orders 103D(1)(a) and 103E’; and

(f) the deletion of ‘European Communities’ in each place where it otherwise occurs and the substitution therefor of ‘European Union’;

2. in the case of the Joint Committee on European Scrutiny, by the insertion of the following paragraph after paragraph (1)(b)(i):

‘(ii) the powers defined in Standing Orders 103C and 103E;'

3. in the case of the Joint Committee on Justice, Defence and Women's Rights, by the insertion of the following paragraph after paragraph (5):

‘(6) The joint committee shall have the power defined in Standing Order 103D(1)(b).’, and

(b) That the Resolutions of the Dáil of 10 December, 2009 and 5 May, 2010 in relation to the Implementation of new powers of national parliaments under the Lisbon treaty are hereby rescinded.”

Question put and agreed to.
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