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Dáil Éireann debate -
Thursday, 2 Dec 2010

Vol. 723 No. 5

Standing Orders of Dáil: Motion

I move:

That, pursuant to Standing Order 99(1)(a) the Committee on Procedure and Privileges recommends that the Standing Orders of Dáil Éireann relative to Public Business are hereby amended as follows:

STANDING ORDER 111 — ISSUED UNDER SUPERVISION OF THE CEANN COMHAIRLE:

(a) By the substitution of the following paragraphs for paragraph (3):

‘(3) A copy of the Official Report of the Debates, or any part thereof, as well as every other publication of the Dáil, shall be made available to every member either in electronic or printed form or both, as may be recommended by the Committee on Procedure and Privileges to the Ceann Comhairle who shall make a determination on such recommendation, except that the editions to which paragraph (4) applies shall be in both forms.

(3A) Notwithstanding paragraph (3), the exclusion of any element of the Official Report of the Debates from the unrevised edition shall not affect its standing as a publication of the Dáil.',

and

(b) By the insertion of the following paragraph after paragraph (5):

‘(6) Without prejudice to the generality of paragraph (3A) and notwithstanding their exclusion from the unrevised edition of the Official Report of Debates in accordance with paragraph (3), the standing of the text of, and answers to, all Questions which have been distinguished by an asterisk in accordance with Standing Order 40(2) or in respect of which an answer shall be provided in the Official Report of Debates in accordance with Standing Order 40(3) shall be that which would have applied had they not been so excluded.'."

Question put and agreed to.
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