Enda Kenny (Mayo, Fine Gael)

The Government approved the Bill yesterday but I cannot give the exact date when the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government will publish it. There is a process to be followed in the appointment of a constituency commission. The Minister will write to the Chief Justice, who will in turn ask the High Court to appoint a judge to chair the commission. It will be given terms of reference in respect of which it will make its findings independently. All Governments over the past 25 years have followed the recommendations of the various independent constituency commissions on the number of Deputies, constituency boundaries, etc.

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