Dáil debates

Tuesday, 2 May 2017

3:40 pm

Photo of Regina DohertyRegina Doherty (Meath East, Fine Gael)
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I move:

That the Standing Orders of Dáil Éireann relative to Public Business be amended by the adoption of the following Standing Order in substitution for Standing Order 21:

‘Quorum.

21. (1) The quorum necessary to constitute a meeting of the Dáil shall be twenty members, save where the sitting commences earlier than 12 noon, when it shall be ten members.

(2) The applicable quorum for the purposes of Standing Order 22 shall be:(a) where the sitting commences earlier than 12 noon, ten members until 12 noon; and

(b) twenty members at 12 noon and thereafter until the adjournment of the Dáil.(3) Further to the provisions of Standing Order 22, where a sitting commences earlier than 12 noon, if a quorum is not present at 12 noon, or as soon as possible thereafter, the provisions of Standing Order 22 shall apply in relation to the ringing of the division bells and the suspension of the sitting or adjournment of the Dáil.’.”

Question put and agreed to.