‘If in doubt, spin it out’ sums up approach to crisis

If in doubt, spin it out. So appears to be the primary approach of the Government to the housing crisis and homeless emergency.

While there is a dearth of creativity being applied to tackling the issue, the whole gamut of spin is being used to deflect from it. There are countless and varied examples of this in recent months, but let’s just look at three which show the creativity that can be applied to the dark arts.

On July 12, the newly installed Taoiseach Leo Varadkar was asked in the Dáil about a report on problems around emergency accommodation.