Noel Coonan (Tipperary North, Fine Gael)
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The Déise had its way. My experience is that in the last boundary revision, part of Laoighis-Offaly, namely, south Offaly, came into Tipperary North. The people of south Offaly and north Tipperary decided on the name of the constituency, and everybody in the media and the public referred to it as north Tipperary-south Offaly because that was the point made by the public. Irrespective of what name the commission or anybody else puts on it, the people will decide what they call their constituency, and rightly so. We should bear that in mind. I support the point with regard to future commissions that the titles of the constituencies should be looked at, and commissions should take on board the opinions of the people.