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Time for a step change in policy

The Repair and Lease Scheme (RLS) brought 198 houses back into use by August, having promised to repurpose 3,500. File photo: Gareth Fuller/PA

It is more than possible that, in time, some of the 50,000 or so students sitting the Leaving Cert this flummoxed year will study communications. 

Some may major in political communications, that dark art of loaves-and-fishes conjuring of a gallon out of a pint glass. They will not lack raw material: Examples of desperate salesmanship dressed as policy abound.