Legislating and the art of preventing others from getting what they want

The process of enacting legislation in this Dáil has largely ground to a halt through delaying tactics and deliberate obfuscation of the political process, writes Political Correspondent Elaine Loughlin.

THE now jaded system of new politics has simply become a game in which every side tries to outsmart and out-trick the other by using and abusing loopholes and lacunas.

This do-nothing Dáil has managed to enact just five private members bills since 2016, while the Government busily scurries to find any way possible to cynically frustrate and hold up the 123 other opposition bills floating about in the system.