Leo Varadkar (Dublin West, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

I have looked into this matter. As there are legal issues, the sequencing will be as follows. The European Council will take a decision at the end of June to assign an additional two seats to Ireland. Assuming that happens in June - I have no reason to believe it will not - we will then set up the constituency commission immediately afterwards with a view to reporting on the new constituency boundaries by September. We believe it can be done very quickly. It is not that complicated and, as the Deputy knows, there are only a few options. We will do that as quickly as possible, but for legal reasons we cannot set up the commission until the decision is actually made.

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