Indecisions of reluctant incumbents - Dáil Éireann in state of stasis

IN the final act of Sean O’Casey’s play Juno and the Paycock, ‘Captain’ Jack Boyle drunkenly proclaims: “The whole world’s in a state o’ chassis.”

The famous line comes to mind when considering the world as we know it in the form of that celestial body called the Dáil.

It is not so much in a state of chassis as in a state of stasis, considering the apparent inability of our elected representatives to break out of this period of parliamentary inactivity.