Government blunders on e-voting and road routes

THE Taoiseach seems to think little of the humble pencil or, indeed, of people admitting they are wrong and changing their minds.

In the Dáil recently, he made the astounding statement in relation to e-voting that our “silly old system is outdated”, that we should “correct the software and move forward” and that we are a “laughing stock with our silly old pencils”.

Last year, he also referred to pencils in relation to the Kildare bypass, where a rare snail’s habitat was discovered, and the highly controversial M3 in Co Meath.