Michael McCarthy (Cork South West, Labour) | Oireachtas source

The two elections Mr. O'Keeffe referred to were 1973 and 1977, where they took the Béara peninsula, Castletownbere, and put it into Kerry. For religious purposes, it is in the diocese of Kerry, but there were people on Bere Island voting to elect Deputies up as far as between Killarney and Tralee. It made no sense. I accept the independence of the boundary commission and it does its job fairly well, but I have made submissions to it time and again. I am not saying it should implement to the letter what I think should be done, but it should at least demonstrate a cognisance of the submission. I find that frustrating. For example, I remember when Leitrim started a campaign to avoid the split between Roscommon-South Leitrim and the other constituency-----