official documents and the private
papers of its members, and to protect itself and its members against any
person or persons interfering with, molesting or attempting to corrupt its
members in the exercise of their duties.

ARTICLE 21.

Each House shall elect its own Chairman and Deputy Chairman and shall
prescribe their powers, duties, and terms of office.

ARTICLE 22.

All matters in each House shall, save as otherwise provided by this
Constitution, be determined by a majority of the votes of the members
present other than the Chairman or presiding member, who shall have and
exercise a casting vote in the case of an equality of votes. The number of
members necessary to constitute a meeting of either House for the exercise
of its powers shall be determined by its Standing Orders.

ARTICLE 23.

The Parliament/Oireachtas shall make provision for the payment of its
members and may in addition provide them with free travelling facilities
in any part of Ireland.

ARTICLE 24.

The Parliament/Oireachtas shall hold at least one session each year. The
Parliament/Oireachtas shall be summoned and dissolved by the
Representative of the Crown in the name of the King and subject as
aforesaid the Chamber/Dail Eireann shall fix the date of re-assembly of
the Parliament/Oireachtas and the date of the conclusion of the session of
each House provided that the sessions of the Senate/Seanad Eireann shall
not be concluded without its own consent.

ARTICLE 25.

Sittings of each House of the Parliament/Oireachtas shall be public. In
cases of special emergency either House may hold a private sitting with
the assent of two-thirds of the members present.

SECTION II.--LEGISLATIVE PROVISIONS.

B.--THE CHAMBER OF DEPUTIES/DAIL EIREANN.

ARTICLE 26.

The Chamber/Dail Eireann shall be composed of members who represent
constituencies determined by law. The number of members shall be fixed
from time to time by the Parliament/Oireachtas, but the total number of
members of the Chamber/Dail Eireann shall not be fixed at less than one
member for each thirty thousand of the population, or at more than one
member for each twenty thousand of the population: Provided that the
proportion between the number of members to be elected at any time for
each constituency and the population of each constituency, as ascertained
at the last preceding census, shall, so far as possible, be identical
throughout the country. The members shall be elect