Read your letter with great interest. I am baffled by the intractability of the Minister/Department on this. I would have thought they’d have learned the lesson of the Electoral Register where the Sunday Tribune flagged the problem at least a year before it became a ‘crisis’ last summer (which it still is… as Pat Rabbitte pointed out over the weekend).

Surely the number of planning permission applications for high-density apartment block and/or housing estates where there used to be farms should have been a hint that there might be an issue with constiuency boundaries and representation quite some time ago? Surely a reasonable person might have considered having a continency plan in place to investigate and/or advise on the issue? Something at least.

In the end we are left with a Government department hiding, it would seem inaccurately, behind a statement of the AG.

The government relying on inaccurate information in the operation of key functions of the State…. at least there is consistency if not completeness or accuracy.

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