I move:
(1) That a Select Committee consisting of seven members of Seanad Éireann (none of whom shall be a member of the Government or a Minister of State) be appointed to be joined with a Select Committee appointed by Dáil Éireann to form the Joint Committee on Co-operation with Developing Countries to examine:
such aspects of
(a) Ireland's relations with developing countries in the field of development co-operation, and
(b) the Government's Official Development Assistance programme,
as the Joint Committee may select and to report thereon to both Houses of the Oireachtas;
(2) That in the absence from a particular meeting of the Joint Committee of a member who is a member of Seanad Éireann, another member of Seanad Éireann, with the authority of the absent member, may take part in the proceedings and vote in his stead;
(3) That the Joint Committee, previous to the commencement of business, shall elect one of its members to be Chairman, who shall have only one vote;
(4) That all questions in the Joint Committee shall be determined by a majority of votes of the members present and voting and in the event of there being an equality of votes the question shall be decided in the negative;
(5) That every report which the Joint Committee proposes to make shall, on adoption by the Joint Committee, be laid before both Houses of the Oireachtas forthwith, whereupon the Joint Committee shall be empowered to print and publish such report together with such related documents as it thinks fit;
(6) That five members of the Joint Committee shall form a quorum of whom at least one shall be a member of Dáil Éireann and at least one shall be a member of Seanad Éireann.