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Tánaiste hopes there won't be any legal challenge to the new Dáil constituency boundaries

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RedFM Sport

01:47 1 Sep 2023


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The Tánaiste is hoping there won't be any legal challenge to the new Dáil constituency boundaries.

Many counties are still over the constitutional limit requiring one TD for every 30,000 people - raising talk of a legal challenge.

Under the new plan Cork will get two new TD's as Cork North and South Central have been redrawn and both revert back to five seat constituencies.

The Electoral Commission, chaired by Justice Marie Baker, believes it has stuck to the law.

That's an opinion Tánaiste Micheál Martin shares:

"The average is right in terms of that the average number of people that TD's will represent across the country, there's a reasonable balance there. It's impossible to get it perfect and I believe that they've done a good job in this respect. Undoubtedly for some it will create significant pressures as all electoral boundary changes do."


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