A message has been received from Seanad Éireann stating that it has made the following order:
That the period for reporting back of the Joint Committee on Marriage Breakdown be extended to the 1st December, 1984."
Messages have also been received from the Seanad stating that it has made orders amending the terms of reference of the Joint Committee on Legislation and empowering the Committee to review the exercise of existing statutory powers of delegated legislation. The full text of these messages will be set out in the Official Report and in the Journal of the Proceedings of the House.
Following are the texts of the messages from the Seanad:
Seanad Éireann has made the following Order:
"That the period for reporting back of the Joint Committee on Marriage Breakdown be extended to the 1st December, 1984".
Seanad Éireann has made the following Order:
"That the Joint Committee on Legislation, or a sub-Committee appointed by it, review the exercise of existing statutory powers of delegated legislation in the light of the various reports on statutory instruments made by former Select Committees of the Seanad on Statutory Instruments and the Joint Committees on Secondary Legislation of the European Communities and its own examination of statutory instruments over the initial two years of its operations; and that the Joint Committee report on whether, in order to maintain appropriate balance between the legislative supremacy of the Oireachtas and the needs of efficient Government, any special safeguards are desirable in regard to the future exercise of those powers and the delegation of such powers in future legislation."
Seanad Éireann has made the following Order:
That the Terms of Reference of the Joint Committee on Legislation, constituted pursuant to the Order of Dáil Éireann of 6 July, 1983 and the Order of Seanad Éireann of 7 July, 1983 and subsequently amended pursuant to the Order of Dáil Éireann of 15 December, 1983 and the Order of Seanad Éireann of 21 December, 1983, be amended as follows:
By the insertion of a new paragraph as follows:
`(14) that the Joint Committee shall be empowered to take evidence in public for the purposes of paragraph 1 (d) and to include with any report which it may make minutes of such evidence'."