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Dáil
‹ Ceisteanna—Questions. Oral Answers. - Dáil Constituencies Revision.

Revision of Dáil constituency boundaries

Summary

The Minister said the commission would be established after publication of the April census results. Asked whether the next election would use revised boundaries, he did not answer directly and noted that a 1976 census would have allowed the commission to be set up earlier.

asked the Minister for the Environment when it is proposed to set up the commission to deal with the question of the revision of Dáil constituencies.

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It is proposed to set up this commission when the results of the census of population, to be taken in April of this year, are published.

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Can the Minister tell us whether it is proposed that the next general election will be fought on the basis of revised constituency boundaries?

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Joseph Brennan An Ceann Comhairle Fianna Fáil

That is a separate question.

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If a census had been taken in 1976, as it should have been, the commission would have been established a long time ago.

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