David Stanton (Cork East, Fine Gael)
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Question 365: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government his views on the fact that persons living outside the administrative areas of many towns in the State can vote in the town council elections of those towns and can therefore influence the composition of those councils even though these councils do not provide services to persons living outside the administrative areas; the way in which these electoral boundaries are decided; his plans to examine this issue; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16385/04]

Martin Cullen (Waterford, Fianna Fail)
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The boundaries of certain towns were altered under the Local Government Act 1994 and associated regulations solely for local electoral purposes, following agreement by the local elected councils concerned. Since the introduction in 1996 of a revised boundary alteration code, under the Local Government Act 1991, it has been open to any such local authority, as a reserved function, to initiate an application for a boundary alteration to have effect for all statutory functions. In recent years several local authorities have made such applications which have been determined and implemented, two as recently as 1 January 2004. I intend to bring into effect, later this year, new arrangements regarding local authority boundary alterations based on provisions in the Local Government Act 2001.