Monitoring our ministers

END-OF-YEAR performance reports on each Cabinet minister will be made public after they are individually called into the Taoiseach’s office to explain what they have achieved to date.

Enda Kenny said he wanted to make it “perfectly clear to ministers” that they should prove their worth at the Cabinet table before he publishes his ratings on each of them in March — one year into the Coalition’s term.

However, he refused to repeat his pre-election promise to sack any minister who is not up to scratch or failing to deliver on their duties.