Political expedience wins out over rationality

One of the defining characteristics of Irish governance is the inability to make decisions based on evidence.

All too often we substitute evidence-based policy, where a careful weighing of the consequences and analyses of different positions leads eventually to a rational decision, for political-based policy. It would be nice if once and a while political expedience could be put aside in favour of rational decision-making.

The emergent discord on land is one area where we see, once again, that rational debate is being cast aside in favour of political point- scoring.