Jerry Buttimer (Fine Gael)

Thanks to the Government of which they are part, 200,000 people are unemployed today. The ordinary decent people are facing the cut backs in health and education which the Minister for Health and Children promised this House would not be made.

I welcome the commission's report on constituency boundaries but, unlike Senator de Búrca, I have a fundamental difficulty with the way it proceeded with its business in regard to Cork city and county. It is wrong that a two-tier Cork city has been created because of the way seats have been allocated.