The Action Programme for Effective Local Government, Putting People First, was published in October 2012 and sets out the Government’s vision for change for the sector.  The Action Programme and related documents are available on the Department’s website at www.environ.ie .

Chapter 6 of the Action Programme (see attachment) sets out the plans for Local Government arrangements within counties.  It is envisaged that new Municipal Districts will be formed with a clear segregation of powers between the Municipal Districts and the County Council as set out in the Action Programme.  The Programme notes that special arrangements will be required in Dublin. 

A statutory Local Electoral Area Boundary Committee has been established to review and make recommendations on boundaries in the context of the Action Programme. This Boundary Committee has issued an invitation for submissions and has also established a website at www.boundarycommittee.ie . 

The review of local Electoral areas is being undertaken in prospect of the local elections to be held in 2014, having regard to the results of Census 2011 and notes that the task of the Committee is to review and make recommendations on the division of Council areas into local electoral areas and to make recommendations on the number of members of each Council to be assigned to each local electoral area. The Committee’s report will be considered by the Minister as the basis for the revision of the local electoral areas under his statutory powers.

 OUTLINE OF CENSUS 2011 DATA

For the assistance of Members the Census data from 2011 show that South Dublin has a population of 265,205.  This is broken down into Local Electoral Areas as follows :-

             Clondalkin                                56,338

             Lucan                                       54,101

             Rathfarnham                             39,311

             Tallaght Central                        60,450

             Tallaght South                           55,005

REGISTER OF ELECTORS DATA

By way of supplementary data the Draft Register of Electors 2013/14 was published on 1^st November 2012 with 185,069 electors registered to vote, representing 69.78% of the population of the County.  The Register will come into force on 15^th February 2013.  The number of electors for each of the five Local Electoral Areas (with comparative data for 2012 /13 also shown) is as follows:-

MAKING OF SUBMISSIONS

The Boundary Committee has indicated that the deadline for receipt of submissions by it (to be forwarded to the Secretary of the Local Electoral Area Boundary Committee) is Friday the 25^th January at 5pm.