The truth, I am fairly sure, is that he is no longer as certain as he once was that he is, in fact, in the majority.
There is, you sense, a dawning realisation in Leinster House on this issue: We’re in trouble.
Third event within days planned.
The background to this is that MacLochlainn, who represents Donegal, is naturally enough complaining that the MICA bill does not provide enough money to fix all the collapsing houses.