John Paul Phelan (Carlow-Kilkenny, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

-----bears no resemblance to the truth.

Deputy McGrath asked who or what gives me the right. The designation of municipal districts is a ministerial function, not a function of any electoral boundary review because municipal districts are not electoral boundaries of themselves but are administrative boundaries. I want to state to the people of Clonmel there will be no loss of funding to the citizen.

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