Dail Cabinet Meeting - December 3rd
Macardle points out that no formal minutes were taken of this meeting. Austen Stack wrote a memorandum on cabinet meetings, Barton made some jottings, and there are unconfirmed notes made by Acting Secretary to the cabinet, Colm O Murchadha. (The Secretary to the Cabinet, Diarmuid O’Hegarty, was in London.) Therefore most of the accounts of this meeting come from participants’ recollections. One of the key problems was that a flaw in the Boundary Commission clause failed to specify an electoral unit for the local opt out option. According to Curran, this flaw had been pointed out to Griffith but that the focus in the cabinet discussion on the oath meant that it was missed.