Eamonn Coghlan (Independent) | Oireachtas source

This is all about new politics. The people of Dublin deserve a chance to say whether they are for or against the proposal, not 16 councillors. Senator O'Brien may be aware the Irish name for Fingal can be translated as "foreign tribe", a territory of foreigners. It is a medieval name and if the 274,000 citizens who live in what is the second most populous county in Ireland, including those in Dublin West, are not given a chance to say "Yes" or "No", then I am afraid Fingal County Council still lives in medieval times.