Joe Higgins (Dublin West, Socialist Party) | Oireachtas source

In the statement of Government priorities 2014-2016, the Taoiseach said the Government - Fine Gael and Labour - was now setting its key priorities and that priority number five was the rebuilding of trust in politics and public institutions.

In the week that is in it, when the Taoiseach wove such a tangled web that he does not really know where he stands by using and abusing a public institution and State body - the Irish Museum of Modern Art - what changes is he going to make in regard to putting the public services and the use of those institutions to advance the political interests of the major right wing parties in this State beyond the reach of sleaze, cronyism and favouritism? Is this a subject he thinks the Cabinet sub-committee should take up?

As it was the Irish Museum of Modern Art the Taoiseach abused, would he consider offering himself as an artistic installation there for a day, perhaps by going down and standing in stocks in sackcloth and ashes as atonement for his abuse of that institution?

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