Mr. Art O'Leary:

-----but we have had constituencies with seven, eight and nine seats up until the mid-1940s. If six-seat constituencies do become a reality, then the next mountain to climb will be constituencies with more than six seats. It is never expressed in these terms, but our population is growing at a rate of two TDs a year. This conversation around constituency size and the number of TDs is something we really need to have, outside the white-hot heat of a general election campaign. It is, therefore, something likely to be revisited by the next Government after the 2024 or 2025 general election.