Reverse the ill-advised decision to cut State’s mental health budget

I was listening, half-distracted, to the televised contributions from the various political leaders in the run-up to the vote for Taoiseach. 

All the speeches were impressive, unsurprisingly, as each speaker had rehearsed his/her spiff for the occasion. But I still found my attention wandering as they spoke. Even the most eloquent voices seemed to be just droning on and on. And we’d heard similar speeches during the three previous votes for Taoiseach.

But then Clare Daly rose to her feet and it was if a thunderclap had shattered the humdrum business-as-usual atmosphere of the chamber.