Éamon Ó Cuív (Galway West, Fianna Fail)
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If the Minister had to deal with a huge heap of amendments for Report Stage and we intended to make changes all over the place, he would have a point. However, if he was to think on this before Report Stage and there are still only three amendments, it would show he could make everybody very happy with a very minor adjustment and without in any way interfering with the terms of reference of the commission, as he said himself.

With regard to the Mayo situation, we knew Mayo could not stay as a five-seater unless it got a big slice of Galway, Roscommon or Sligo because once the number of representatives was cut to 158, no commission, within its terms of reference, could have left Mayo as a five-seater because the population does not justify it.