13/03/08
Dublin 15 Green Party representative, Roderic O’Gorman, has called on the Dublin and Cities Electoral Area Boundary Committee to add an extra seat to the Mulhuddart Ward as part of its review of boundaries in the Fingal County Council area.
“In light of our analysis of the population of the Dublin 15 area after the last census, we are recommending that the Mulhuddart ward gets an extra seat to bring it up to 5 councillors. From the census, the combined population of the Mulhuddart and Castleknock Areas is now 90,974. As Fingal has a population of 239,992 to be shared between 24 councillors, this gives a population of approximately 10,000 per councillor. Therefore, it is clear that the Dublin 15 area is entitled to an overall increase from 8 to 9 seats”, stated Roderic O’Gorman.
“In light of the massive growth in the population of the Mulhuddart ward, which encompasses areas such as Ongar and Littlepace, we believe an extra seat should be given to this ward. This would mean that the population per councillor in Mulhuddart would be -6.61% and in Castleknock +5.83% from the average population per councillor in Fingal. As this is well within the 10% limit prescribed by the guidelines, we would suggest that there needs to be no changes to the actual boundaries of the Mulhuddart or Castleknock ward”.
The submission from the Dublin West Green Party has further stated that the boundary for the Dublin 15 wards should not match the newly drawn boundary for the Dublin West constituency, which runs through the middle of Swords village.
“Like most people, we were shocked by the decision of the Constituency Boundary Commission to change the boundary of Dublin West to include a substantial section of Swords Village. We think this action was a mistake and will need to be revisited in future reviews of the Dail constituency boundaries. As such, we are firmly against any suggestion that the boundary of the Mulhuddart ward should be altered to include areas of Swords”, concluded Roderic O’Gorman.
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Further Information
Roderic O’Gorman: 087 417 9777
rodericogorman@gmail.com
