Dáil Éireann has passed the following Order.
(1) (a) That a Select Committee, which shall be called the Select Committee on Enterprise and Small Business, consisting of 14 Members of Dáil Éireann (of whom 4 shall constitute a quorum), be appointed to consider such—
(i) Bills the statute law in respect of which is dealt with by the Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment, and
(ii) Estimates for Public Services within the aegis of that Department,
as shall be referred to it by Dáil Éireann from time to time.
(b) For the purpose of its consideration of Bills under the paragraph (1)(a)(i), the Select Committee shall have the powers defined in Standing Order 78A(1), (2) and (3).
(c) For the avoidance of doubt, by virtue of his or her ex officio membership of the Select Committee in accordance with Standing Order 84(1), the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment (or a Minister or Minister of State nominated in his or her stead) shall be entitled to vote.
(2)(a) The Select Committee shall be joined with a Select Committee to be appointed by Seanad Éireann to form the Joint Committee on Enterprise and Small Business to consider—
(i) such public affairs administered by the Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment as it may select, including bodies under the aegis of that Department in respect of Government policy,
(ii) such matters of policy for which the Minister in charge of that Department is officially responsible as it may select,
(iii) the strategy statement laid before each House of the Oireachtas by the Minister in charge of that Department pursuant to section 5(2) of the Public Service Management Act, 1997, and shall be authorised for the purposes of section 10 of that Act, and
(iv) such other matters as may be jointly referred to it from time to time by both Houses of the Oireachtas,
and shall report thereon to both Houses of the Oireachtas.
(b) The quorum of the Joint Committee shall be 5, of whom at least 1 shall be a Member of Dáil Éireann and 1 a Member of Seanad Éireann.
(c) the Joint Committee shall have the powers defined in Standing Order 78A(1) to (9) inclusive.
(3) the Chairman of the Joint Committee, who shall be a Member of Dáil Éireann, shall also be Chairman of the Select Committee."