Enda should resign over his failure to tackle homelessness
Enda Kenny had to be complimented on his long years of service and of course considerable achievements as Taoiseach. I have always been interested in politics, North and South, and indeed further afield.
However, I have been watching Enda as the leader of our country, in a particularly focused way, since arriving here in St Matthew’s in Ballyfermot, almost four years ago.
I would not doubt for a minute, his hard work and sincerity, yet it is with a heavy heart that I write. Whilst this does not come easy to me, I put it to him that he has failed.
Unfortunately his failure is not peripheral. In fact it is quite monumental.
Putting it as succinctly as I can, he has failed the voiceless, the lost constituencies, and most obviously, but by no means only, he has failed the homeless.
He has failed them because he could have solved this problem and he did not.
He had the power. He had the money. He had the time. Yet the problem remains, and indeed has worsened.
The responsibility, including the blame, lies with him, no one else. With all the perks, all the kudos, of his position, so too, I must remind him comes the pain, or the price of accountability. This is the loneliness of the bridge.
Regrettably, once again, because others in the Church have failed to urge him to take responsibility for this profound failure, I take it on myself to do so. And so our Taoiseach, because he had it within his gift to solve the problem of Irish homelessness, and failed to do so, in God’s name, I call on him to resign as leader of our country.
Were he to find within him, the courage and humility to do so, then he may well repent of this serious failure.
If he took even three days in one of our retreat centres, with some serious prayer and proper spiritual direction, then I have no doubt, he could ask forgiveness of God, and most importantly of each homeless woman and man in this country. In this context, he would begin to make amends, to show heroic example, and perhaps have a pretty unique place in our history.
If I can assist him in any way, especially spiritually, I would consider it an honour.
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