Oireachtas is all talk and no investigation

WHEN it emerged that thousands of calls had been placed from within Leinster House to vote for Michael Healy-Rae in a 2007 reality TV programme, the Ceann Comhairle of the Dáil was blunt in his assessment.

It was, Sean Barrett said, “an outrageous abuse of facilities”.

That being the case, one might have thought the Oireachtas would have moved heaven and earth to get to the bottom of the issue.