Dáil Éireann díospóireacht -
Thursday, 18 Nov 1926

Vol. 17 No. 3

PUBLIC SAFETY (EMERGENCY POWERS) BILL, 1926. - TWENTY-FIRST REPORT OF THE COMMITTEE OF SELECTION.

Professor TIERNEY

The following is the Report of the Committee of Selection which met to-day at 2.30 p.m.:—

The Committee nominated the following Deputies to serve on the Select Committee, of which the Ceann Comhairle has been appointed Chairman by Order of the House of the 17th November, 1926, to make recommendations regarding certain proposals for legislation to amend the Constitution; viz., the Minister for Finance, Messrs. Duggan, Mulcahy, Tierney, P.S. Doyle, Johnson, Magennis, Thrift, C. Hogan.

I would like to add that it was the unanimous opinion of the Committee that it would be advisable, in order to have all parties as well represented as possible on the Committee, that Deputy Redmond might be made a member of it. It was suggested that it might be found possible to increase the number of the Committee to ten, with the Ceann Comhairle as Chairman. I do not know whether that can be done.

AN CEANN COMHAIRLE

The motion passed yesterday was to appoint a Committee of ten Deputies. I only saw the motion after it was passed: that there were to be ten Deputies with the Ceann Comhairle as Chairman. It seemed to me that, on the face of it, it meant that the Ceann Comhairle, being a Deputy, there should be only ten members in all on the Committee. But if it is the unanimous view of the Committee of Selection and if no objection be taken by the President, the mover of the motion for the Select Committee, it can be altered to make it ten Deputies, exclusive of the Ceann Comhairle as Chairman, and to add Deputy Redmond's name.

The PRESIDENT

I do not enter any objection to increasing the number to ten.

Ordered—(1) "That the number of the Select Committee to make recommendations regarding certain proposals for legislation to amend the Constitution be increased to ten Deputies, with the Ceann Comhairle as Chairman."

(2) "That the name of Deputy Redmond be added to the Committee."

Ordered—"That the Report lie on the table."