Alan Shatters all hope of transparency.

Any notion anyone had that the present coalition would be more transparent than their predecessors have been firmly buried by the decidion of the present MInister for Justice to delete from the Courts Service website the response of the judiciary to the Government's proposals to reduce the pay of said judiciary.
This decision,despite the consent of the Government's own law officer,the Attorney General ,for its publication ,smacks of censorship of the worst kind,fear of open debate and is itself proof of the undesirability of placing the judges even more in hock to the Government.After all if the judges are so beholden to the Minister at the moment that they agree to this unreasonable request for deletion without a fight ,they will surely be pussy cats entirely when the Government fully controls the purse strings at its whim.
God help anyone then who challenges the might of the State or our European masters.What judge in his/her right mind would rule against them in the knowledge that they could be impoverished for so doing.Don't mind politician's promises nor assurances that this would not happen.Think only of the alacrity with which concrete promises relating to hospital services are being abandoned and the furious backpedalling on the issue.
Not to labour the point further another fine gael mess we are landed in.
If the judges are percieved to be in the pockets of the Government it will eventually dawn on people that recourse to the courts is a waste of time and that matters ought be handled outside the law,a recipe for anarchy and an indicator of a facist State.
It goes without saying that if the judiciary are faced down and not let raise the issues as publicly as the Government does,the rest of us have no chance whatsoever and the mushroom treatment practised in this country for far too long will be cemented for further generations who cannot escape these shores.