‘Topical issues’just hot air and bluster

THE new chirpy-named “topical issues” time on the revamped Dáil schedule was designed to address some of its biggest faults: its lack of relevance on day to day issues and inability to respond to emerging crises or unexpected events.

But it was already being dubbed “tropical issues” after the mass of hot air it brought over the chamber on its first sitting after the summer break.

The new slot started off with the Ceann Comhairle explaining that, like the rest of us, he wasn’t fully sure what “topical issues” was all about.