Liz McManus (Wicklow, Labour)
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Question 56: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government the date on which he sought the Attorney General's advice regarding the implications of the preliminary 2006 census figures for the revision of Dáil Éireann constituencies; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [36489/06]

Liz McManus (Wicklow, Labour)
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Question 101: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government the correspondence he has received relating to constituency boundaries, arising from the publication of the preliminary 2006 census figures; if he has enquired from the Central Statistics Office as to when the final census figures will be published; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [36488/06]

Dick Roche (Wicklow, Fianna Fail)
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I propose to take Questions Nos. 56 and 101 together.

Following the publication by the Central Statistics Office of the Preliminary Report on Census 2006, I sought the advice of the Attorney General on 21 July 2006 in relation to census results and constituency boundaries. The Attorney subsequently advised that constituencies can only be revised on the basis of the final Census figures. My Department also received a limited amount of other correspondence associated with this process and more generally on the issue concerned.

The publication of the final Census 2006 figures is a matter for the Central Statistics Office.