Fine Gael fell out of favour as they promised reform and didn’t act

Fine Gael and Labour were given a mandate to radically reform the way Ireland is governed from top to bottom but they didn’t try to live up to the mandate they received.

The day he was elected the first thing Enda Kenny did was accept a doubling of his salary from that of a TD, while telling the rest of us that we’d have to pay more taxes for less services or emigrate because the country was bankrupt. At that exact moment he lost the 2016 election. Every extra cent he has taken in extra salary since 2011 was a cent borrowed or not spent on someone more deserving and there are plenty of people more deserving of that money than Enda Kenny or his government colleagues.

Then we had the adviser salary cap breaches, and given the advice they gave they weren’t even worth the money.