Eamon Gilmore (Dún Laoghaire, Labour)

On 9 January last, the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government established a committee to review the electoral boundaries for local elections. He gave that committee the requirement that it had to report before 20 June. Under the terms of reference he gave to the committee, it is quite clear there will be quite significant changes in electoral boundaries for the local elections.

I have two questions for the Taoiseach in respect of that. Has the Minister received that report? Can we get an assurance that it will be published straightaway when he receives it? This report will contain the proposed boundaries for the local elections next year. It is in the interests of electoral fairness that those boundaries would be known to all political parties and not just those in government when that committee presents its report.

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