Brendan Griffin
Question:650. Deputy Brendan Griffin asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government his views on a matter (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [47791/18]
View answerTuesday, 20 November 2018
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I established two independent Local Electoral Area Boundary Committees on 13 December 2017 to review and make recommendations on local electoral areas having regard to, among other things, the results of Census 2016 as well as the commitment to consider reducing the size of territorially large local electoral areas as set out in A Programme for Partnership Government (May 2016). The two Committees reported to me on 12 June 2018 and now stand dissolved.
On foot of the two reports, orders are currently being prepared within my Department under section 23 of the Local Government Act 2001 to give effect to the Committees' recommendations in relation to local electoral areas. It is anticipated that these orders will be signed later this year. Once the orders have been made, it will be a matter for each local authority to prepare maps setting out the new local electoral areas and to make these available to elected members, to prospective candidates who may wish to stand at the local elections scheduled for late May 2019 and to such other persons who may be interested in receiving copies of such maps.