Seán Fleming (Laois-Offaly, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

Could the Minister explain what would happen in a situation in which a Secretary General's term of office is completed towards the end of a Dáil session and a general election is called with no Houses of the Oireachtas Commission in situ? Who is to reconvene the next Dáil? If we try to fill the gap when a Secretary General is gone, what happens during the interregnum? Is there no Houses of the Oireachtas Commission? I presume the Dáil comes back and forms a Government, but I do not know how long it takes for the Dáil to put the Commission in place.