Funding third-level education: A hard decision dodged again

For the last two years, most Irish politicians have, metaphorically at least, bitten their lip while their British counterparts struggled to find a unified position on Brexit. Recognising that their best contribution to the debacle may be silence most said little or nothing about the uncertainty generated by indecision. Yet there is an issue on which Irish politicians have come to define by indecision — the role college fees might play in funding third-level education.

Fianna Fáil, have helpfully this weekend raised this issue in the forlorn hope that it, a kind of political root-canal treatment, might be dealt with before they are returned to power whenever that might be. They are right though, the time for a decision is long passed.