Mr. Art O'Leary:

There is a question of time here. The results of the census will be out in May 2028, and the next scheduled general election is November 2029. It normally takes a year to carry out the constituency review. The two most recent reviews have been done by crunching Excel spreadsheets, maps and so on. We need to look at technology. It may not necessarily be AI. There are algorithms and so on that might be able to help us speed up this process. After we report, the Oireachtas has to legislate to introduce them. The Venice Commission says there should be no changes to constituencies for at least a year in advance of a general election. There is a particular challenge here that we have to deal with. We have not settled on what it might look like. We also have to do the local electoral area boundaries, the Dáil constituencies and European Parliament constituencies within that very compressed period. If I can offer the Deputy some reassurance, it is to say that I do not think there was a single constituency of the 43 where the first option lasted and was sustained over the seven members of the commission looking at it. There are so many tweaks, etc. There is no benefit to first-mover advantage in the context of that simple crunching of the numbers the first time out.