Editing 3rd Dáil (section)

==First meeting of the Third Dáil==
The Third Dáil was first due to meet on 1 July. It was prorogued on five occasions, with its first meeting successively postponed to 15 July, to 29 July, to 12 August, to 16 August, and finally to 9 September.{{r|prorog}} On this date, W. T. Cosgrave was appointed as President of Dáil Éireann. He formed the [[Government of the 3rd Dáil|5th Ministry of Dáil Éireann]], with the same membership as the 2nd Provisional Government.

Whether the new house, the Third Dáil/Provisional Parliament, was a republican parliament or crown assembly was queried by some anti-Treaty Irish republicans. [[Laurence Ginnell]] turned up in the assembly to demand an answer as to which category, crown or republic, it belonged. The [[Ceann Comhairle]] read a message from [[Lord Lieutenant of Ireland]] [[Edmund FitzAlan-Howard, 1st Viscount FitzAlan of Derwent|Lord FitzAlan]] "conveying to this Parliament his very best wishes", which suggests that both the Lord Lieutenant and the Ceann Comhairle considered this body one convened under the terms of the Treaty rather than [[Dáil Éireann (Irish Republic)|Dáil of the Irish Republic]].<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/1922-09-09/speech/277/|title=STANDING ORDERS COMMITTEE – Dáil Éireann (3rd Dáil)|date=9 September 1922|website=Oireachtas|access-date=5 February 2019}}</ref>