Election candidates should be bound to answer questions asked

This is an opportune time as the election campaign takes off to eradicate what has become a recurring feature of parliamentary and media debates and discussions–namely,the inability to elicit a straight answer to a straightforward question.

It is frustrating to witness a media interrogator repeatedly having to remind an interviewee “that is not the question I asked” The fact that an aspiring or an established politician’s response to a simple question would consist of unrelated waffle would indicate that they were either uninformed, lacking in integrity or deficient in intellectual capacity. It is logical to conclude that anyone incapable of giving a straight answer to a straight question is incapable of holding public office.

Mick Callanan