I’ve made a pretty lengthy submission to the Local Electoral Area Boundary Review Committee. If you’re interested in reading it – you can access it here: Submission to the Boundary Review for County Kildare.
The main points are a realignment of the LEA boundaries so that they better follow the current Dáil boundaries; an amalgamation of Leixlip and Celbridge into a single 6 seater; and a transfer of considerable population into a new 4 seat Athy-Kilcullen area.
March 5, 2008 at 7:41 pm
[...] received to date on the county side. Regarding Kildare, Tony O’Donnell has an excellent submission where he has performed virtual alchemy to bring all the current electoral areas back into line. He [...]
June 18, 2008 at 10:29 am
I’m glad to see that the review for Kildare is a pretty close copy of my submission – I’ll put up a proper review of it this evening.
June 19, 2008 at 3:42 pm
[...] outcome. The report broadly follows the outline suggested in submissions made by myself (here) and Tony O’Donnell down south of the [...]
June 19, 2008 at 3:45 pm
[...] boundaries for Kildare were announced on Tuesday. The map bears a pretty striking resemblance to my submission, which is [...]