The meeting was attended by 64 pro-Treaty TDs and 4 Unionist MPs from the University of Dublin; it elected Alderman Liam de Róiste, one of the representatives of Cork Borough, as chairman (although at this time Eoin MacNeill was Ceann Comhairle of Dáil Éireann), duly ratified the Treaty, and nominated Michael Collins for appointment as Chairman of the Provisional Government.