Comments on: Electoral Constituencies http://obriend.info/2007/04/11/electoral-constituencies/ Daragh O Brien on Information Quality Management & other issues Sat, 31 Mar 2012 22:00:55 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 By: Daragh http://obriend.info/2007/04/11/electoral-constituencies/comment-page-1/#comment-5964 Daragh Mon, 23 Apr 2007 10:31:25 +0000 http://obriend.info/2007/04/11/electoral-constituencies/#comment-5964 Heard on local radio this morning that there was to be a hearing on all this guffology today. No mention in national radio/tv. Perhaps this afternoon. Heard on local radio this morning that there was to be a hearing on all this guffology today. No mention in national radio/tv.

Perhaps this afternoon.

]]> By: Daragh http://obriend.info/2007/04/11/electoral-constituencies/comment-page-1/#comment-5351 Daragh Thu, 12 Apr 2007 11:20:52 +0000 http://obriend.info/2007/04/11/electoral-constituencies/#comment-5351 So it seems likely that there would be no legal bar in, as the Scouts like to say, being prepared. So why are we now in a position where we have no preparation and the problem has merely been (at best) deferred for a few months? The analogy I'd draw is that I forgot to bring lunch with me today. I had initial evidence around elevenses that I'd be hungry in a while. Did I decide to pop to the ATM then and have resources available to implement a strategy to resolve my hunger once it was confirmed, or did I sit on my hands and defer any decision on the obtaining of sustenance until after my gut rumbled in an echoing emptiness, by which time the nice sandwiches would all be gone? What would you have done? So it seems likely that there would be no legal bar in, as the Scouts like to say, being prepared.

So why are we now in a position where we have no preparation and the problem has merely been (at best) deferred for a few months?

The analogy I’d draw is that I forgot to bring lunch with me today. I had initial evidence around elevenses that I’d be hungry in a while.

Did I decide to pop to the ATM then and have resources available to implement a strategy to resolve my hunger once it was confirmed, or did I sit on my hands and defer any decision on the obtaining of sustenance until after my gut rumbled in an echoing emptiness, by which time the nice sandwiches would all be gone?

What would you have done?

]]> By: Simon McGarr http://obriend.info/2007/04/11/electoral-constituencies/comment-page-1/#comment-5350 Simon McGarr Thu, 12 Apr 2007 10:42:44 +0000 http://obriend.info/2007/04/11/electoral-constituencies/#comment-5350 Without speaking definitively, I would put forward the position that there could be no legal bar on planning for any matter or eventuality within the power of the Executive. Without speaking definitively, I would put forward the position that there could be no legal bar on planning for any matter or eventuality within the power of the Executive.

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