Emily Logan: We must reject institutions as a first solution

Institutionalising the ‘vulnerable’ and making them passive recipients of treatment is something we should move away from, writes Emily Logan

In the introductory statement of the 2011 Programme for Government, we saw an explicit commitment to recovery from the financial crisis stating that “it is no exaggeration to say that we now face one of the darkest hours in the history of our independent state”.

In his efforts to make Ireland the best small country in the world in which to do business, Enda Kenny was accused of saving the economy but losing society in the process.