What sort of State is our Taoiseach creating?

Is there any suggestion that Fine Gael, under their leader, Taoiseach Enda Kenny, have a policy of using personal information to control individuals?

The fact that FG ministers are so comfortable with information being used for this purpose suggests that this is not a foreign concept.

The delay in appointing a junior minister in agriculture is considered by some media as a legitimate means for Kenny to control would-be junior ministers, and suggests that FG is routinely put above the needs of the State/Government.