Dáil debates

Tuesday, 12 July 2022

Joint Committee on Social Protection, Community and Rural Development and the Islands: Motion

 

3:45 pm

Photo of Jack ChambersJack Chambers (Dublin West, Fianna Fail)
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I move:

That Dáil Éireann, in accordance with Article 15.1.3° of the Constitution, hereby determines that the Joint Committee on Social Protection, Community and Rural Development and the Islands may meet on Bere Island, County Cork, on a date in September decided by the Committee, in connection with the challenges facing Islanders on the operation of national Islands policies: provided that, pursuant to Standing Order 106(4), Members may participate in such meeting from within the parliamentary precincts by means of the videoconferencing platform approved and provided by the Houses of the Oireachtas Commission.

Photo of Seán Ó FearghaílSeán Ó Fearghaíl (Kildare South, Ceann Comhairle)
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A little bit of history being made.

Photo of Mary Lou McDonaldMary Lou McDonald (Dublin Central, Sinn Fein)
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We could all meet on Bere Island.

Photo of Seán Ó FearghaílSeán Ó Fearghaíl (Kildare South, Ceann Comhairle)
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Well, we are making a little bit of history anyway in dispatching the committee to Bere Island.

Question put and agreed to.