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The following are the Terms of Reference for the two Committees:
Dublin and Cities Electoral Area Boundary Committee
1. To review and to make recommendations, subject to
paragraph 2, on the division of the cities of Dublin, Cork, Galway, Limerick
and Waterford and the counties of Dun Laoghaire-Rathdown, Fingal and South
Dublin into local electoral areas and the number of members of the councils
to be assigned to each such area, with a view to ensuring a reasonable
relationship between the 2006 population and representation within each
local authority. For this purpose, the Committee is to assume no change
in the total membership of each local authority and to endeavour, as far
as practicable, to achieve variance from individual average local authority
representation within the range of +/-10%.
2. In carrying out its review, the Committee shall have as an objective
the drawing up of electoral areas which (alone or in combination) would,
as far as practicable, have an urban or neighbourhood focal point (or
points).
3. In recommending changes to local electoral areas, the Committee should,
subject to paragraph 2, take due account first of the desirability of
preserving natural communities or the hinterlands of population centres,
and secondly of the desirability, where it may be possible to do so, of
aligning local electoral area boundaries with Dáil constituency
boundaries.
4. The number of councillors representing an area as determined above
should not be less than 4 or more than 7, provided that in very exceptional
circumstances 3 seat local electoral areas may be recommended where otherwise
the geographic size of the area would be disproportionately large.
5. Subject to the above, the Committee shall endeavour to maintain continuity
in relation to the arrangement of local electoral areas.
6. The Committee shall submit its report as soon as possible and, in any
event, not later than 20 June 2008.
Electoral Area Boundary Committee
1. To review and to make recommendations, subject to
paragraph 2, on the division of each county (other than Fingal, Dun Laoghaire-Rathdown
and South Dublin), the boroughs of Drogheda and Sligo, and the towns of
Bray and Dundalk into local electoral areas and the number of members
of the councils to be assigned to each such area, with a view to ensuring
a reasonable relationship between the 2006 population and representation
within each local authority. For this purpose, the Committee is to assume
no change in the total membership of each local authority and to endeavour,
as far as practicable, to achieve variance from individual average local
authority representation within the range of +/- 10%.
2. In carrying out its review, the Committee shall have as an objective
the drawing up of electoral areas which (alone or in combination) would,
as far as practicable, have an urban or neighbourhood focal point (or
points).
3. In recommending changes to local electoral areas, the Committee should,
subject to paragraph 2, take due account first of the desirability of
preserving natural communities or the hinterlands of population centres,
and secondly of the desirability, where it may be possible to do so, of
aligning local electoral area boundaries with Dáil constituency
boundaries.
4. The number of councillors representing an area as determined above
should not be less than 4 or more than 7, provided that in very exceptional
circumstances 3 seat local electoral areas may be recommended where otherwise
the geographic size of the area would be disproportionately large.
5. Subject to the above, the Committee shall endeavour to maintain continuity
in relation to the arrangement of local electoral areas.
6. The Committee shall submit its report as soon as possible and, in any
event, not later than 20 June 2008.
