Written answers
Thursday, 15 February 2018
Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government
Local Electoral Area Boundary Committee Report
Seán Sherlock (Cork East, Labour)
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303. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the status of the boundary between Cork city and county councils; and when new electoral areas in both local authority areas will be considered under a commission. [7919/18]
John Paul Phelan (Carlow-Kilkenny, Fine Gael)
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The recommendations of the Cork Implementation Oversight Group as contained in their Report: "Proposal for delineation of extended boundary of Cork City" have been accepted by the Government in their decision of 12 December 2017.
It is my intention that reconfigured Local Electoral Areas for Cork City and County Councils will be ready for the 2019 local elections and I intend to make the appropriate arrangements in due course, informed by the work of the Cork Implementation Oversight Group.
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