Same January, same miseries: Time to turn the pages on failure

Getting things done in a democracy is difficult.

Bureaucracies move slowly; there’s little that can be done without consultation, vested interests want a say, establishments of one kind or another don’t welcome inconvenient change, introducing new laws or updating existing ones takes time, and when money or lack of it is the issue, the tempting solution is the establishment of an inquiry or an Oireachtas committee charged with making, somehow or other, the problem go away.