"It's massively frustrating!" Gary Gannon is feeling guilty. Three months after he was chosen to represent the people of Dublin Central, he is finding it hard to fulfill the mandate that he has worked towards for many years. "You know when you visualised being a TD?
You visualise coming into Leinster House, talking about policy and being involved in your constituency," says the Social Democrats TD, one of 48 first-time deputies.
The difficulties are both practical and political. Gannon and other new TDs cannot get their Leinster House offices until it's known who will be in government and who will be in opposition.