Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire (Cork South Central, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

That is effectively what I was expecting. I just wanted to confirm that my understanding was correct. Kudos to whomever spotted it. It seems like a very small part of the estate of Classes Lake on the Ballincollig-Ovens boundary. It is just about within the city council boundary and, therefore, Cork North-West. I just wanted to confirm that is the case and it is all in keeping with it. It is a peculiarity but there you go; we get these peculiarities.

I will take the opportunity to make a point I made previously. We talk about electoral divisions and things like that in locations that would previously have been rural. Traditionally, when the electoral divisions were first drafted, places that might have been rural were then built up or are brought into cities. The old electoral division boundaries can be quite large and take in a very large population which means that as building blocks, they are not very useful. They are not very easily devisable. The Douglas electoral division in Cork, which is now in the city council, has some 35,000 or 40,000 people in it. It becomes very difficult then to redraw wards and constituencies. I am sure the Department has 1 million other things that might be of higher priority. However, if things are happening with regard to the Electoral Commission and so forth, the building blocks in urban areas that might traditionally have been rural are a bit out of date because they are physically too large for the population that is in them. They are too populous really as well.

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