Seanad debates

Thursday, 26 June 2003

Houses of the Oireachtas Commission Bill 2002: Second Stage.

 

When dealing with legislation, it is impossible to avoid definitions. Legal phrases can be left for explanation until the particular section to which they relate comes up for discussion. Purely from the point of view of clearing the ground, one of these phrases "Office of the Houses of the Oireachtas", which crops up throughout the Bill, probably needs to be dealt with here. People in this House or in the Dáil and people generally, often use a kind of shorthand – Leinster House, the Oireachtas, Parliament, the Legislature, etc. – when referring to this place. Some even refer to it as the Dáil, which I know would be a mortal sin in this House.

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