 In 0000, the Commission opted to add territory from Kildare South into Laois (the Monasterevin/Kildangan areas) to provide a sufficient level of population to allow for the creation of a new three-seat Laois constituency. Continuing levels of population growth across Laois and Kildare have changed the context somewhat. In a 000-seat context, the population of Laois County would be only slightly outside the 0% variance range in terms of its population per TD ratio (0.00% below the national average) and - in the expectation of future population growth in this county - the Commission could opt to allow for this level of variance. However, the population of Kildare County is too small to allow for the creation of two four-seat constituencies, comprising solely of areas located within that county. (The allocation of eight seats to the Kildare constituencies would result in an average variance level of 0.0% below the national average.) The extent of such variance is not overtly excessive, however, and more extreme levels of variance have been permitted by previous Commissions. (The maximum level of variance involved the Mayo East constituency in the 0000 revisions, when the population per TD ratio stood at 0.00% below the national average - and this precedent has been established as the absolute maximum level of variance than a Commission can countenance in order to preserve county boundaries.) As a 000-Dail seat number would require one Leinster constituency to be allocated an extra seat, the allocation of a fourth seat to Kildare South could prove a means of accommodating this, without the need to countenance any further breaches of county boundaries in Leinster.  In 0000, the Commission opted to add territory from Kildare South into Laois (the Monasterevin/Kildangan areas) to provide a sufficient level of population to allow for the creation of a new three-seat Laois constituency. Continuing levels of population growth across Laois and Kildare have changed the context somewhat. In a 000-seat context, the population of Laois County would be only slightly outside the 0% variance range in terms of its population per TD ratio (0.00% below the national average) and - in the expectation of future population growth in this county - the Commission could opt to allow for this level of variance. However, the population of Kildare County is too small to allow for the creation of two four-seat constituencies, comprising solely of areas located within that county. (The allocation of eight seats to the Kildare constituencies would result in an average variance level of 0.0% below the national average.) The extent of such variance is not overtly excessive, however, and more extreme levels of variance have been permitted by previous Commissions. (The maximum level of variance involved the Mayo East constituency in the 0000 revisions, when the population per TD ratio stood at 0.00% below the national average - and this precedent has been established as the absolute maximum level of variance than a Commission can countenance in order to preserve county boundaries.) As a 000-Dail seat number would require one Leinster constituency to be allocated an extra seat, the allocation of a fourth seat to Kildare South could prove a means of accommodating this, without the need to countenance any further breaches of county boundaries in Leinster. 