Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Wednesday, 6 February 2013
Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: Select Sub-Committee on the Environment, Community and Local Government
Electoral (Amendment) (Dáil Constituencies) Bill 2012: Committee Stage
10:40 am
Éamon Ó Cuív (Galway West, Fianna Fail)
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He is not in government. It is fair to say that there is disappointment among people in south Mayo that they are being put into the Galway West constituency. It is not that they have anything against Galway. They have a very strong county identity. Over 10,000 people in a considerable slice of south Mayo, stretching from just north of Headford to just north of Ballinrobe and from Cong almost to Claremorris, are being put into Galway West. I am suggesting that we recognise their Mayo identity by calling the constituency "Galway West-Mayo South". I think it makes sense. The people of west Galway do not mind and the people of south Mayo who are being moved from the Mayo constituency would be very pleased to be recognised in the name of the constituency. There is a precedent in the Roscommon situation. It would not be without precedent.