The problem is on the doorstep

CANDIDATES from the main political parties in the Meath and Kildare by-elections should take responsibility for the intolerable commuting times that have emerged as the principal doorstep issue in both of these dysfunctional satellite counties.

Excessive commuting is primarily generated by bad planning purveyed by the main political parties and indulged by successive ministers for the environment with power to stop it.

In short, many of the candidates who sound so innocent on the doorsteps represent the political parties that have caused the problem.