Gallagher, James Wednesday, 27 November 1968

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Electoral (Amendment) Bill, 1968: Second Stage.

It is assumed one accepts the necessity for the introduction of this Electoral Bill to revise the constituencies in order to conform to the requirements of the Constitution. I do not envy the Ministe...

Roscommon has got back Ballaghaderreen from Mayo. There had to be breaching in some cases. There was talk about Leitrim but I do not know how you could do anything with it other than what is being d...

Perhaps, you do but if I were you I would concern myself with Deputy Reynolds and let Deputy Gallagher look after himself.

I do not know what you would have done. I take it the Deputy would carve up Sligo.

Did he take 12,000 or 14,000 out of Donegal? The base of Leitrim, at 30,000, was very small on which to try to build a constituency without carving into the surrounding counties to an extraordinary d...

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