In regard to item No. 2 today, I would ask leave of the House to make a correction to the motion as it stood on the Order Paper. This is in regard to the motion establishing a committee in regard to the use of Irish. The position was that we passed an expediency motion some time ago and what we were doing today was passing the substantive motion. It is necessary to adapt from the original motion to the substantive motion in certain respects. One of those adaptations was not made in the text that appeared on the Order Paper and I ask the House to agree that the text on the Order Paper which was the subject of debate and decision, would be corrected in the Journal of the House and in the Official Report to include paragraph 3 as follows:
That in the absence from a particular meeting of the Joint Committee of a member who is a Member of Seanad Éireann, another Member of Seanad Éireann may, with the authority of the absent member, take part in the proceedings and vote in his stead.
That gives effect to what we agreed in the expediency motion but the wording is the appropriate wording for a substantive motion such as we passed today.
