I propose that we should, in the first instance, take into account a communication I have received from the Clerk of the Dáil in the following terms:—
"Dáil Eireann have directed me to acquaint Seanad that they have appointed a Committee to consist of the Ceann Comhairle, the Minister for Local Government, Deputies Burke, Hughes, McGarry, Murphy, Gorey, Johnson, Davin, and Magennis (five to form a quorum) to join with a Committee of Seanad Eireann to consider how suitable accommodation for the Oireachtas may best be provided and to examine such plans as may be submitted to them, and it is an instruction to the Committee to report upon the matters submitted to them at their earliest convenience, but not later than the 27th July; and to request that Seanad Eireann will be pleased to appoint an equal number of Senators to be joined with the Deputies of Dáil Eireann."
In view of that communication I think it is essential that we should now proceed to appoint a Committee which will act jointly with the Committee of the other House. It is not stated precisely in this communication that it is to be a Joint Committee but it is stated that they are to work jointly, which may practically come to the same thing. At the same time I think it is framed deliberately to preserve, if necessary, the separate action of each Committee. Accordingly I suggest to the Seanad that they should now proceed with the appointment of a Committee of their own House, corresponding in number with that selected by the Dáil, and with the instructions to the Dáil Committee—that is to say, that they should report upon the matter at their earliest convenience, but not later than the 27th July. I suggest that the following members of the Seanad form a Committee to act in accordance with this communication: Senator Sir J. Griffith, Senator Guinness, Senator Mrs. Stopford Green, Senator Mrs. Wyse Power, Senator O'Farrell, Senator Yeats, Senator de Loughrey, Senator McKean, the Deputy Chairman and myself.