Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Tuesday, 14 July 2015

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht

Electoral Commission in Ireland: Discussion (Resumed)

2:20 pm

Dr. Adrian Kavanagh:

That is a good point. In regard to the Deputy's point about larger constituencies, Professor John Coakley in UCD carried out useful research which indicated that if there was scope for larger constituency units, it would not be necessary to move away from county boundaries. If, for example, we had six seat constituencies, we might have combined counties Sligo, Leitrim and Roscommon in one constituency without drawing in parts of south Donegal or west Cavan to make up the numbers for the four seat Sligo-Leitrim constituency.

What was the other question?

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