Mr. Barry Ryan:

In a previous judgment, the courts spoke of the urgent burden on the Oireachtas to legislate once the census shows the constituencies are out of sync with the Constitution. They did not set down an actual timeframe but they called it an urgent burden. We take it that means to do it as quickly as possible. The report was published at the end of August. The report on European Parliament constituencies was published this month. It will be enacted within a number of weeks.