John McGuinness (Carlow-Kilkenny, Fianna Fail)
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240. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government the detail of the process involved and the legislation which covers the process for changing the administrative boundary of a county council. [21783/17]

Simon Coveney (Cork South Central, Fine Gael)
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I refer to the reply to Question 259 14 February 2017.  The legislation governing local authority boundary alterations is set out in Part V of the Local Government Act 1991. As specified in section 31(1)(a) of the Act, alterations of the boundaries between local authorities may be made by Ministerial Order, but any such Order would require approval of both Houses of the Oireachtas.