Seanad Éireann debate -
Thursday, 20 Jun 1963

Vol. 56 No. 13

Houses of the Oireachtas: Address by President Kennedy—Motion.

Tomás Ó Maoláin

I move:

That Seanad Éireann concurs in the Resolution of Dáil Éireann communicated on the 20th June, 1963, that, to welcome the visit to Ireland of John Fitzgerald Kennedy, the President of the United States of America, and to mark the event in a signal manner, it is expedient that a joint sitting of both Houses of the Oireachtas be held on Friday, the 28th June, 1963, in the Dáil Chamber and that the President of the United States of America be invited to address such joint sitting.

I am glad to have the honour of moving this motion for a joint session of both Houses of the Oireachtas to extend a welcome to President John Fitzgerald Kennedy of the United States of America.

Professor Hayes

We are all agreed that the visit of the President of the United States of America should be marked in the highest manner possible. Therefore, I have great pleasure in seconding the motion that we concur with the Dáil in the proposal for a joint session in his honour to receive him.

Mr. Crowley

My colleagues and I should like to support the motion. We think it is well deserved and timely. Apart from the honour which the President of the United States of America will be conferring on our country by this visit, we feel that we should receive him with the greatest respect.

Question put and agreed to.