Emmet Stagg (Kildare North, Labour)

On the Electoral (Amendment) Act, No. 4 on the pink sheet, which proposes to revise Dáil and European Parliament constituencies in light of the Constituency Commission report and to revise the procedures in regard to the establishment of future commissions, which is the key signal in that, we were told at the Whips meeting last night that the Government has approved the heads of the Bills and that we will have a debate on the matter next week in advance of discussing the Bill. It would be most useful if the Opposition spokespersons, at least, although many Members will have an interest in this, could have supplied to them the heads of the Bills as approved by Government. That would not be unusual, but the Chief Whip was to inquire about that and this is the public forum for getting the final answer on it.

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