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The Parliament/Oireachtas shall sit in or near the city of Dublin or in such other place as from time to time it may determine.

All citizens of the Irish Free State/Saorstat Eireann without distinction of sex who have reached the age of twenty-one years and who comply with the provisions of the prevailing electoral laws, shall have the right to vote for members of the Chamber of Deputies/Dail Eireann, and to take part in the Referendum or Initiative. All citizens of the Irish Free State/Saorstat Eireann without distinction of sex who have reached the age of thirty years and who comply with the provisions of the prevailing electoral laws, shall have the right to vote for members of the Senate/Seanad Eireann. No voter may exercise more" than one vote and the voting shall be by secret ballot. The mode and place of exercising this right shall be determined by law.

Every citizen who has reached the age of twenty-one years and who is not placed under disability or incapacity by the Constitution or by law shall be eligible to become a member of the Chamber of Deputies/Dail Eireann.

No person may be at the same time a member both of the Chamber/Dail Eireann and of the Senate/ Seanad Eireann.