Brendan Smith (Cavan-Monaghan, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

Following on from comments made by Deputy Billy Timmins, I recently tabled a parliamentary question to the Minister for Justice and Equality regarding the brutal and horrific murder of a young man named Paul Quinn who was murdered some years ago in County Monaghan, in my constituency. There is a duty on everybody who has information regarding the killers of this innocent man to provide that information to the authorities. I commend Deputy Timmins on raising the matter here today. I met Mr. Quinn's parents some years ago and do not have the words to express the horrors they have gone through and continue to go through following the loss of their young son.

In deference to the Leas-Cheann Comhairle, I take this opportunity to raise a matter that will be of interest to everybody in this House, namely, constituency revisions. People living in the middle part of County Cavan will now be in a constituency that stretches over to Ballina in County Mayo and up almost as far as Donegal town. That is ludicrous. Perhaps in future we will be realistic and mature enough in this House to appoint former politicians on these commissions. No political practitioner would sign off on the constituency boundaries that were put in place by the most recent revision.

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