TotD: Running a Country

Reading back over my past few blogs I see a recurring trend that the present method of governing Ireland is failing, at best, or has failed, which I would be more inclined to argue myself.
I have mentioned a new system being needed and I am going to outline what I think should be done on the political scene in Ireland in this blog post.

Over the past two terms of the Dáil we have seen the failure of all the political parties in government.

The PDs and Greens are effectively gone and should stay such. Both parties are a joke anyway. The Progressive Democrats were established to be an alternative to Fianna Fail but ended spending their only time in government with Fianna Fail.
The Greens are sell outs to Fianna Fail, I am happy their party leader resigned before they entered government with them in 2007, that was honourable.
Fianna Fail caused the ruination of this country by mismanagement and inviting the Trioka in.
Fine Gael have done no better than Fianna Fail, traditionally they are the same party anyway so it makes sense no real change would be introduced under their rule.
Labour, my belovéd Labour Party, have broken every promise they made and should bow out now before the Irish public destroys them over the next two general elections and they go the way of the PDs and Greens, as well they deserve.
Sinn Féin, well... we all know who they are... If you are too young to remember I'll give you a three letter hint (IRA) and not the good one from the history books that helped win freedom for this country, the terrorist organisation banned by the Irish government that has made relations between us and the North, and UK more generally, so sour. Bad idea to vote these people in. It's scary that they are the second most popular party in the Dáil according to recent poles and could form a coalition with Fianna Fáil in 2016.
The Socialist Party: enough said... We don't want communism thanks very much and could you imagine Joe Higgins as our dictator? He wouldn't be too bad but still... I like democracy ;)

The other parties are presently too small to make a difference really but there are some to watch.

I propose the abolition of political parties. That sounds Hitler-istic but hear me out.
Under a new governmental system free elections would take place. This means that the main positions in the Dáil would be up for grabs by anyone who wanted to run for them.
In essence An Taoiseach, An Tánaiste and other cabinet members would be voted for directly based on their promises for their ministry. The other Dáil seats with be made up of OTD positions (Ordinary TDs). These OTDs would be the opposition.

Voting styles like we see in the Dáil presently would go and there would be no forced party loyalties.

The Ministry of Finance would run on a different system. It would be made up of the top financial people in the country (the likes of heads of banks, University professors etc) who, as part of their job working in the State) would have to give some of their time towards discussing and preparing a Budget for the government. This committee would decide on how much of the governments funds are put into each department and the minister of this department, who is elected directly by the people, puts the money towards their mandated projects to the best of their capabilities.

Within such a government the office of Taoiseach could be combined with the office of an Uachtarán and thus saving the government 200,000+ Euro a year...