Enda talked the talk but hasn’t delivered on political reform

‘WE will radically overhaul the way Irish politics and government work. The failures of the political system over the past decade were a key contributor to the financial crisis and the system must now learn those lessons urgently. Government is too centralised and unaccountable.” — Programme for Government 2011.

A “democratic revolution” was one of the key and most loudly heralded promises by Fine Gael and Labour when they entered government in early 2011.

Enda Kenny — in his first speech to the Dáil as Taoiseach — said he would “reinvent our country” and “create a new Ireland that works”, promising to enter “a covenant with the Irish people to tell them the truth”.