John Paul Phelan (Carlow-Kilkenny, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

It will not be. The committee members erred in terms of their terms of reference. Any town of more than 30,000 or any ex-borough will have its own municipal district.

My local town is New Ross in County Wexford. In the case of the town council in New Ross, some of the people who live in Rosbercon, which is my home area, had a vote in New Ross but the rest of them were in County Kilkenny. There will always be the boundary issues, with which I am familiar. New Ross is a beautiful place and I have great memories of going to school there, but it was run by five Fianna Fáil people out of nine for most of my life. It was like a cumann. The town suffered as a result.

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