Your vote is your responsibility even if the result is more TDs

IT’S a frightening thought, but it’s possible we might have more TDs imposed on us. That may transpire as a result of the recently concluded census, which is not just an elaborate alibi for where you were on a particular night of the year.

Something that is largely forgotten is the fact that the census forms, which should be well completed by now, may show that the voting population is far higher and that considerably more people are entitled to the franchise.

That could — indeed would — have implications for the proportion of TDs to the population because the Constitution lays out that there should be one if not for everybody in the audience, then at least for between 20,000 and 30,000 voters.