Michael Kitt (Fianna Fail)

I thank the Minister and his officials, as well the Minister of State, Deputy Batt O'Keeffe, who introduced the debate, for a very interesting debate on Second Stage. The Minister was about to say what I want to say. The debate was very good humoured. In many ways we were very frustrated because we were not going to make changes if we accepted the commission. Ministers from all parties have chopped and changed, resulting in part of north Galway being in the same constituency as south Roscommon and part of south Galway being included with north Clare. These are some examples of the gerrymandering that took place. A commission was badly needed though if we comprised the members of the commission we might do it differently. I thank the Minister and his officials for their work and we look forward to the Minister coming back to the House. At that stage he might deal with some of the ideas put forward that are not dealt with in the Bill.