Lifting the veil of budget secrecy is no bad thing

More scrutiny and transparency are overdue reforms of what was traditionally a sacred process

I am unwavering in my conviction that the public interest is best served by a decisive government, an effective opposition and a robust media. Recent polls in this newspaper and in the Irish Times do not agree with me. After an unprecedented period that saw our political parties fumbling about in a fog, the polls suggest that if there were another general election, the result would be roughly more of the same. Indeed, ...