Brian Stanley (Laois-Offaly, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

It will make it difficult for a Deputy to do justice to constituents at distant and separate ends of such a long constituency.

Sinn Féin seeks better joined-up thinking within the Department of the Environment, Community and Local Government and within this Chamber. We propose that there must be a correlation between local authority and general election boundaries. In so far as possible, the Dáil constituencies must correspond with them. This will allow for better more efficient public representation and a better focus of resources for public administration. I know from personal experience that it is more efficient to deal with one or possibly two local administrations than being obliged to make contact with several such authorities to get the same results.

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