Committee meeting.
This in turn has allowed Micheál Martin and Simon Harris to spend most of the past year posing as commentators on global events.
This, at least, suggests that Government understands the nature of the problem.
Last month the number of homeless people in Ireland hit 16,700, yet another record high, and almost 6,000 of those people are children.
Minister Norma Foley says that Fianna Fáil will make “significant learnings” from the Jim Gavin debacle.
Mixed reactions.
Debacle highlights most important factor of all
“Taxpayers…deserve to see clearly where their money is going.”
“We facilitated debate. I facilitate debate all of the time.”
“We facilitated debate – I facilitate debate all the time…We haven’t been trying to stifle debate on migration.”
A quick fix for FFG, this is not.
“I had a golden rule and that was a client confidentiality.”