Kevin Humphreys (Dublin South East, Labour) | Oireachtas source

I thank the Minister for his response. I can understand the difficulty in that he does not want to reopen this issue given, as he said, it is like Pandora's box and he would be lobbied on many other cases. I point out to the Minister that when this went out for consultation, it was not in people's minds that there would be a change. Normally, up to this point, we would have been talking about substantial changes in boundaries whereas Dublin South-East is quite a minor change. This concerns the power of association and it would have some impact on turnout as well, given that name recognition has been building up in Dublin South-East over a number of years. I ask the Minister to reconsider. There was only one submission in regard to Dublin South-East that actually mentioned the name, where a group from Terenure wanted the area to be moved to Dublin South-East.