Ministers should not escape responsibility

MINISTERS must bear collective cabinet responsibility and duty of government, so why are Enda Kenny, Michael Noonan, Richard Burton and Brendan Howlin not offering their resignation?

According to Kenny, he is going to be honest with the electorate.

So let’s start with collective responsibility and duty. The nine Fine Gael and Labour ministers cannot run away from past collective actions on the 1996 granting of the Esat Digifone mobile licence. The nine were Enda Kenny, Richard Bruton, Michael Noonan and Brendan Howlin — all senior ministers then — and Eamon Gilmore, Pat Rabbitte, Joan Burton, Phil Hogan and Jimmy Denihan, junior ministers then.