Real stability requires new Dáil priorities

As the French would say — ‘plus ça change, plus c’est la même chose’ — the more things change, the more they stay the same.

Given the electoral upheaval one would be forgiven for thinking that politicians who had just had their cards well and truly marked by the electorate would be a little more circumspect — at least in these early days.

Unfortunately, this appears to be far from the case.