The Seanad will now have to consider what it proposes to do with the Constitution (Amendment No. 2) Bill. The Committee Stage of this Bill is quite in order.
SECTION I
The Constitution shall be and is hereby amended by the insertion therein of the following paragraph at the end of and as an addition to Article 21, that is to say:—
"The member of Dáil Eireann who is the Chairman of Dáil Eireann immediately before the dissolution of the Oireachtas shall, unless before such dissolution he announces to Dáil Eireann that he does not desire to continue to be a member thereof, be deemed without any actual election to be elected at the ensuing general election as an additional member of Dáil Eireann not representing any constituency and shall as such additional member have all the rights and obligations of an ordinary member of Dáil Eireann (including eligibility for the office of Chairman) save that his death, resignation, or disqualification shall not create a vacancy in the membership of Dáil Eireann."