Local Electoral Area Boundary Committee Report

Dáil Éireann Debate, Tuesday - 26 June 2018

Tuesday, 26 June 2018

Ceisteanna (580)

Thomas Byrne

Ceist:

580. Deputy Thomas Byrne asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government if a matter (details supplied) regarding the local government boundary review will be clarified. [27485/18]

Freagraí scríofa

Minister of State at the Department of Housing, Planning and Local Government

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.

I am satisfied that the recommendations of the two Committees are clear and will enable work to commence within my Department on the preparation of the necessary orders to give effect to the Committees' recommendations in relation to local electoral areas. It is anticipated that these orders will be made in the Autumn of this year.