Diarmuid Wilson (Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

Section 3 provides for the reduction of the number of constituencies from 43 to 40. It also means that County Cavan is being carved up. West and south Cavan are being put into the newly-formed Sligo-Leitrim constituency, disenfranchising over 13,000 people in County Cavan. South Donegal will be cut off from the rest of County Donegal and put into the same new Sligo-Leitrim constituency. That is not acceptable. While I welcome the fact that Leitrim is once again united as a county for Dáil election purposes, this should not have been at the cost of the people of Cavan and south Donegal. In addition, the name "Sligo-Leitrim" does not give ownership to the people of south and west Cavan and south Donegal who are affected by this carve-up. For those reasons, I oppose this section.