John Ellis (Fianna Fail)

I am delighted that Senator Norris is going to welcome others to the register of voters on the university panels.

I refer again to the debate I have sought with the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government concerning constituency revision and the Constituency Commission's report. I note that we will have a debate this evening on the university panels for the Seanad. I appeal to the Leader to ask the Minister to address the matter I have raised.

Few Members of either House are aware of the consequences of the Murphy judgment, which means that county boundaries will be halved and small segments will be transferred from one county to another. It is time we examined the identities we all possess in terms of our counties in order that no future boundary commission will be allowed to breach county boundaries, even if that means increasing the number of Members in these Houses. That has been suggested but it was wrongly rejected by the commission. I ask that an all-party committee be established by both Houses to examine the future with regard to boundary commissions and how Dáil constituencies are defined.