The Minister for Justice and Equality has informed us that the Labour Party's Harassment, Harmful Communications and Related Offences Bill 2017 to deal with cyberbullying has been accepted by Government and is progressing. I hope it can be enacted this year.

When the UK exits the European Union, 73 European Parliament seats will become vacant. A total of 27 of those seats are to be redistributed among 14 member states and 46 are to be held in reserve. I understand that plans were agreed on 7 February that Ireland would be allocated two additional European Parliament seats at the elections next year and that this is to be confirmed at the June European Council. Obviously, as much preparation as possible needs to be put in place.

When will a new constituency commission be established so that we can have the shape of it? I ask that the commission be established in advance of the June Council so that it is in a position to receive submissions once we know the shape of the new boundaries, allowing for as much time in advance for people to prepare for what might be a redrawing of constituencies.

I have looked into this matter. As there are legal issues, the sequencing will be as follows. The European Council will take a decision at the end of June to assign an additional two seats to Ireland. Assuming that happens in June - I have no reason to believe it will not - we will then set up the constituency commission immediately afterwards with a view to reporting on the new constituency boundaries by September. We believe it can be done very quickly. It is not that complicated and, as the Deputy knows, there are only a few options. We will do that as quickly as possible, but for legal reasons we cannot set up the commission until the decision is actually made.