Fianna Fáil's Galway West Dáil ceanntair will meet next week amid concerns over the party's selection of election candidates.
All cumann members in Galway West have been invited to the meeting, where they will discuss the decision by party headquarters that its constituencies committee will pick the candidates.
This follows the break-up of last Sunday's selection convention, when delegates complained they had not been informed that only three candidates would run.
The constituencies committee, chaired by Fianna Fáil deputy leader Brian Cowen, ruled on Wednesday that the two outgoing TDs, Éamon Ó Cuív and Frank Fahey, would be selected automatically. The committee would "interview" the four additional nominees.
It did not clarify whether one or two candidates would be selected at the interviews.
The additional contenders last weekend were Cllr John Connolly, Cllr Mary Hoade, Cllr Seamus Walsh and former councillor and member of Údaras na Gaeltachta Val Hanley.
Senator Margaret Cox, who said last month that she would not be seeking selection, said she did not want to "add fuel to the fire in relation to the treatment of local delegates by party headquarters". However, she said that the communication by headquarters "did not respect the members or delegates in Galway West", and the challenge now was to "fill this chasm".
Cllr Walsh said that the party decision could be very divisive and called for it to be reconsidered. Connemara councillor Josie Conneely said the decision was an "insult" to the party rank-and-file. While most delegates would accept the nominations of Mr Ó Cuív and Mr Fahey, a convention should be reconvened to select the other candidates, he added.
Earlier this week, Mr Ó Cuív refused to be drawn on how many candidates he believed should run. However, he noted that the last time the party won three seats in Galway West was when it ran five candidates.
He said the lack of a "roving microphone" at last Sunday's selection convention was the main reason the proceedings ended in disarray.
