Nothing adds up as TDs missing in inaction

NOT for the first time the numbers just did not add up in the Dáil.

Given that the deputies were freshly back from their well deserved three-week Easter break after putting in six days’ hard graft at the tail-end of March following their mere two-week long vacation for St Patrick’s Day, you might have been forgiven for believing the TDs would be eager to re-engage in the grand ideological battle of ideas.

But, no, just 34% managed to drag themselves into the chamber for Leader’s Questions – the main showpiece parliamentary event of the week – some 11% more were missing, lost in the Continental volcanic dust, which left the majority – 55% – just missing in inaction.