Seán Fleming (Laois-Offaly, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

I take the point made by Jim O'Keeffe about a permanent commission, but we carry out a census of population every five years and we should only change boundaries based on hard facts based on a census. It would not be right to change it every year on a rolling basis. It should only be done on the basis of census facts. By definition, the boundary issue only raises its head after each census. There is no work to be done in the other four of the five years in any event.