John Paul Phelan (Carlow-Kilkenny, Fine Gael)
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I established two independent Local Electoral Area Boundary Committees on 13 December 2017 to review and make recommendations on local electoral areas having regard to, among other things, the results of Census 2016 as well as the commitment to consider reducing the size of territorially large local electoral areas as set out in A Programme for Partnership Government (May 2016). The reviews are to be completed well in advance of the next local elections which are scheduled for mid-2019. In this regard, the Committees are tasked with reporting to me within six months of their establishment, that is by tomorrow 13 June 2018, after which the necessary arrangements will be made to publish their reports.