Paschal Mooney (Fianna Fail)

I am grateful to Senator Browne because, in the context of this amendment, he anticipated the point I was about to make. He used the example of the proposed division of County Leitrim. I do not understand why the commission decided to attach this designation under its new dispensation. Not only has it split the county, but it accentuates the division that many of us have been attempting to heal for decades. In all previous legislation on Sligo-Leitrim, Donegal-Leitrim——