The following draft Motions will be debated during this years
General Synod. For further information on amendments
and passage through General Synod please
email the General Synod
Press Officer.
Motions 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8
Motions received by the Honorary Secretaries of the General Synod
not less than one month before the day appointed for the opening of
the session of the Synod at which the motion is to be moved
(Standing Order 31).
- THE HONORARY SECRETARIES
A motion or motions to allocate the time
available between the items listed on the agenda Paper (Standing
Order 56). (See Timetable Motion on separate sheet.)
- MOTION ON PROCEDURE
THE HONORARY SECRETARIES
That the Reports of the Board of
Education and the Secondary Education Committee be taken
together, that the first part of the debate be confined to
matters mainly concerning education in the Republic of Ireland,
being introduced by two speeches, one on behalf of the Board of
Education and one on behalf of the Secondary Education
Committee; that the second part of the debate be confined to
matters concerning education in Northern Ireland, being
introduced by one speech, on behalf of the Board of Education,
and that the time allotted to each part of the debate be at the
discretion of the President, but not to exceed a total of one
and a half hours.
- MR JMD COUCHMAN AND REV CANON NT
RUDDOCK
That this Synod will not allow the sale of
the Palace, Kilkenny in the present climate of dissent within
the United Diocese, and in the light of the disenfranchisement
of Ferns Diocese.
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- CENTRAL COMMUNICATIONS
BOARD
THE HONORARY SECRETARIES
That the following re-organisation of
the Central Communications Board be approved:
- The resolution passed at General Synod 1985 be rescinded.
- The Standing Committee shall in June, 2001 appoint a
Central Communications Board to serve until May 2003 and
triennially thereafter consisting of:
- One member of the House of Bishops
- Two members, to include the Secretary, of each of the
three sub-committees (broadcasting, literature,
internet)
- Two members of Standing Committee, to include an
Honorary Secretary
- Two senior members of Church House staff
- Two members of the Representative Body
- An option to co-opt two members to ensure both gender
and regional balance.
- Appointments to the sub-committees to be made by the
Standing Committee on the recommendation of the Central
Communications Board up to a maximum of 10 members per
sub-committee.
- The main objectives of the Central Communications Board
shall be to:
- Initiate policy in relation to the communications
strategy of the Church of Ireland
- Co-ordinate the work of the sub-committees
- Report annually to the Standing Committee.
- The CCB will appoint its own chair and recommend the
chairs of the other committees to the Standing Committee.
- CONSTITUTION OF THE CHURCH OF
IRELAND
THE HONORARY SECRETARIES
That the Legislation Committee be
authorised to prepare a Bill to consolidate the Constitution of
the Church of Ireland, for consideration by the General Synod in
2002.
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- SYNODICAL STRUCTURES
WORKING GROUP
REV CANON PF PATTERSON AND MR DJ AUCHMUTY
That the General Synod:
- Welcomes and receives the report of
the Synodical Structures Working Group of the Standing
Committee.
- Subject to the Bill to amend Chapter
I of the Constitution being passed, requests the working
group to continue its work on related areas in order to
present the necessary resolutions and legislation to fulfil
the other recommendations listed in its report to the
General Synod in 1999.
- THE BISHOP OF CASHEL AND
OSSORY
That in accordance with the provisions of
Section 26(1) of Chapter I of the Constitution leave be granted
for the introduction of a Bill in the General Synod of 2002 to
amend the Book of Common Prayer to enable those who have been
baptised but not yet confirmed to be admitted to the Holy
Communion:
To amend the Order for Confirmation in the Book of Common Prayer
by deleting the existing final rubric and substituting the
following:
It is intended in Baptism that those
who have been baptised will be confirmed. They may, however, be
admitted to the Holy Communion prior to Confirmation.
- THE HONORARY SECRETARIES
That the Honorary Secretaries be
instructed to publish with as little delay as possible, the
Journal of the Proceedings of the Synod during this session,
with such appendices as they think expedient.
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