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Our candidates in the same area got close on 3,000 first preference votes. This is the area which is supposed to be predominantly Fine Gael. The Fine Gael candidate from that area polled 789 votes. In that election the quota was 8,000 odd and over 40,000 voters cast their votes. when Fine Gael had a candidate in the field from the Blackrock/Douglas area. I would like to refer Deputy Barrett back to the general election of 1965. "They are fully aware that the Minister and his Party will have the most cynical disregard for their rights if their rights clash with the interests of the Fianna Fáil Party, because the reason Blackrock and Douglas were pushed out of Mid-Cork was because they were very notably Fine Gael in their sympathies and that disturbed the balance of Fianna Fáil's power in Cork City". One would think that we people who live on the borders of County Kerry have a malignant disease and should be avoided.ĭeputy Barrett also states at column 1277 of the Official Report of 27th November, 1968: We have the usual remarks here from people like Deputy Barrett who always bring it up one way or another about "sprawling itself away down to the borders of County Kerry". It is only right that Blackrock and Douglas should form part of Cork city constituency or constituencies as the case may be. However, since then they have been taken into Cork city and they are now electing members of the corporation. When one comes to Blackrock and Douglas in 1961 it is well to remember that they were part of County Cork and that they were electing members to the Cork County Council. You have Deputy Treacy stating that there is no need to change the constituency and Deputy Barrett stating there was no need to have Blackrock and Douglas added to the Mid-Cork constituency. "On the last occasion the constituencies were carved up-and plainly in a spirit of gerrymandering which had no regard whatsoever for a portion of the constituency which, whilst it was then in the county, always looked upon itself as part of Cork City constituency-the Minister and his Party proceeded to carve up the areas of Blackrock and Douglas in such a way that an area of the city, within a quarter of a mile of the City Hall, was shifted into a constituency which sprawled itself away down through County Cork and on to the borders of County Kerry." On the very same day, 27th November, 1968, at column 1276 we have Deputy Barrett, a Fine Gael Deputy from Cork saying: This proposal, too, is quite unnecessary and is designed solely on a selfish political basis to try and weaken Fine Gael and Labour in these two constituencies." "A large portion of North Cork has been detached and is now being added to Mid-Cork. At column 1266 of the Official Report of 27th November, 1968, Deputy Treacy said: I would like to refer to my own county of Cork. Many of them have not yet spoken those who have are contradicting each other. It seems that the Opposition generally seem to shout "gerrymandering" without looking at the position one way or another. They cannot be shouting for four-seaters in one place and not have them in another.
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There was a Labour Convention in Ennis last Sunday and the members there instructed their delegates to have an amendment moved here in the House that the constituency would be made a four-seater. We had Deputy Treacy who was very critical of the four-seat constituencies here in Dublin. Appearing before an Oireachtas Committeeīefore the debate was adjourned I was discussing with some Members across the House statements about four-seat constituencies.