Question-dodging is a bit Irish

Like the rest of the people in this country, I am interested in how the nation is being run by those elected to represent us in the Dáil.

I am 16 years old and the one thing I always notice is the inability of a person who makes important decisions for this country to answer a simple question, like “How much will it cost to build this new road?” for example.

They always end up going off on a tangent for five minutes on how the benefits of building the road far outweigh the disadvantages, throw in a few statistics and figures, and (s)he’s succeeded in waffling through the question without giving us a proper answer.