Reform is not abstract: misgovernment does real, tangible harm to our citizens - Oireachtas News Updates | The Irish Times - Tue, Oct 08, 2013

Reform is not abstract: misgovernment does real, tangible harm to our citizens - Oireachtas News Updates | The Irish Times - Tue, Oct 08, 2013: "These three vignettes point to an executive that is both sloppy and arrogant; a system of delivery of public services and of public administration that struggles with basic ideas of responsibility and accountability; and a justice system that has repeatedly failed to ensure that wealthy people who wreak havoc with other people’s lives do not enjoy impunity. We can add the acknowledged failure of parliament to be, in the Government’s own words, more than “an observer of the political process”. These multiple levels of misgovernment inflict immense, tangible damage on citizens. Only a genuine, coherent, multi-layered “democratic revolution” that puts citizens in charge of their own republic can prevent that harm from continuing."

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