Seán Fleming (Laois, Fianna Fail)
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262. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government the position regarding the Carlow boundary report; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3134/17]

Simon Coveney (Cork South Central, Fine Gael)
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In June 2015, an independent statutory Committee was appointed to carry out a review of local government boundaries in Athlone, Carlow, Drogheda and Waterford. In each case, the committee was asked to carry out a review of the boundary between the respective local authorities and to make recommendations with respect to those boundaries and any consequential matters that they consider necessary in the interests of effective local government.

The report in relation to Carlow was submitted to me in late December 2016. I will be considering it along with the other boundary reports, which I intend to address as part of the overall report on local government matters to be submitted to Government and the Oireachtas in mid-2017 under the Programme for a Partnership Government.