Dáil Éireann Debate, Wednesday - 6 March 2013
153. Deputy Joan Collins asked the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government if it has been brought to his attention that there are currently 12 elected representatives on Sligo Borough Council and 25 elected representatives on Sligo County Council; the number of councillors there will be in Sligo following the June 2014 local government elections; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11935/13]
View answerI established a Local Electoral Area Boundary Committee on 15 November 2012 to review and make recommendations on the division of each council area, other than Cork City, into local electoral areas, and to make recommendations on the number of members of each council to be assigned to each local electoral area. I have asked the Committee to report to me no later than 31 May 2013. The Committee’s terms of reference contain the parameters defining the total number of seats on each council.
For councils other than Cork City and County and Dublin City, the number of seats on each council will be calculated on the basis of 1 member for every 4,830 of population with additional members where there are existing borough and town councils and merging city and county councils. Those additions are subject to a maximum of 4 except where councils are merging. These calculations are all subject to the minimum total of 18 and the maximum total of 40 members set in paragraph 9 of the terms of reference.
