Aengus Ó Snodaigh (Dublin South Central, Sinn Fein)
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Question 1060: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government if he will amend the name of polling districts in the local electoral area of Ballyfermot and Drimnagh in Dublin, to reflect the local place names to stop confusion particularly at election time. [1092/09]

John Gormley (Dublin South East, Green Party)
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On 16 June 2008, I received the reports of the two independent Boundary Committees I established in January 2008 to review local electoral areas. The reports included the names recommended by the committees for all local electoral areas. When publishing the reports, I announced that, consistent with long established practice in respect of constituency formation at European, national and local levels in Ireland, I was accepting the recommendations contained in them.

In relation to polling districts, section 28 of the Electoral Act 1992 requires each county or city council, following consultation with the returning officer for Dáil elections, to make a scheme dividing the county or city into polling districts and to appoint a polling place for each polling district. The naming of such polling districts is a matter to be decided in this context. I have no proposals to amend the names of electoral divisions.