Detachment and inertia - Housing plan deferred

ONE of the few pronouncements that Bertie Ahern made that might still win universal approval was that it “takes far too long to get anything done in this country”. 

Mr Ahern was expressing a frustration, usually felt with the greatest consequences by the weakest, that the wheels of State grind far too slowly. As WB Yeats warned us about peace, change comes dropping slow.

Yesterday this cultural malaise, this lack of ambition and game-changing energy was seen when Housing Minister Simon Coveney admitted that the deadline attached to the Action Plan for Housing will be missed.