Irish Examiner View: No plain sailing to get to 34th Dáil

Taoiseach and Fine Gael leader Simon Harris speaking to the media before Cabinet at Government Buildings in Dublin. He says the election will be held on a Friday this year after the Finance Bill has passed. Picture: Grainne Ni Aodha/PA

The general election may be coming to a polling station near you on a Friday sometime soon, but that doesn’t mean it will be plain sailing getting to the 34th Dáil.

Even with a finance bill ahead to push through the budget largesse, it won’t buy its way through a housing crisis, resolve questions over immigration, make the cost of living affordable, or mean class sizes will reduce any time soon.