Lucinda Creighton and Eddie Hobbs revealed their hand today, formally launching Ireland's newest political party - Renua Ireland.
It promises to be a - "A modern, collaborative party, engaging the nation in a new conversation."
So what does it actually believe - and is it offering anything different to the existing parties?
Here are a few key quotes from this morning's launch:
"The medium and long term game is that you an get in and make a real change" #RenuaIreland
— Reboot Ireland (@rebootireland) March 13, 2015
"Leadership, at the end of the day is about knowing the way, showing the way and going the way" #RenuaIreland
— Reboot Ireland (@rebootireland) March 13, 2015
"People are sick of being told things, they want to see things being done" #RenuaIreland
— Reboot Ireland (@rebootireland) March 13, 2015
We want to see an Ireland that is depolarised #RenuaIreland
— Reboot Ireland (@rebootireland) March 13, 2015
"We have found a political movement that will be there for the people" #RenuaIreland
— Reboot Ireland (@rebootireland) March 13, 2015
"I, at the moment, would not encourage my children into business, but that's wrong, and that's what we will change" #RenuaIreland
— Reboot Ireland (@rebootireland) March 13, 2015
"The big beasts of politics are health an education. We intend to design policies that will address and fix these" #RenuaIreland
— Reboot Ireland (@rebootireland) March 13, 2015
We are empowering. We are open. We adapt. This positive change is happening from the ground up. #RenuaIreland
— Reboot Ireland (@rebootireland) March 13, 2015
"Politics in Ireland has been so driven by personalities" #RenuaIreland
— Reboot Ireland (@rebootireland) March 13, 2015
"We intend to entirely dismantle #IrishWater." #RenuaIreland
— Reboot Ireland (@rebootireland) March 13, 2015
Select highlights from the 'Vision and Core Beliefs' section of the new party's website
Full section on children:
"There is no greater moral and political issue than securing the future of children."
Communities:
"Reversing the destructive culture of the abolition of community life from the school to the post office is a core value."
Environment:
"The progressive degradation of Ireland’s environment is the lethal consequence of the current political culture of vested interests and political cronyism."
Family Values:
"RENUA believes a state without strong families is a broken reed. We commit to supporting families of all types in a practical caring fashion."
Education:
"Citizens rather than trade unions must decide the future of our country."
Public Service:
"Public servants are the citizens who build the state. Success and reform enhances their lives as much as those of the private sector."
Arts and culture:
"RENUA believes it is time to reverse the barbarism of the last two decades and rebuild the centrality of arts and culture."
Entrepreneurialism
"RENUA believes in a society that encourages families, communities and businesses to embrace an ethic of enterprise and improvement. Self employment and entrepreneurship should be a matter of first choice rather than necessity."
Welfare:
"We intend in welfare to build a state structure that marries compassion with responsibility. Those who are not self reliant will be imprisoned rather than released by a life on welfare."
New politics:
"Old politics bankrupted the state. Ireland needs a new kind of politics that is open and ethical and designed for modernity."
Foreign Policy:
"Ireland supports an ethical foreign policy. We are supportive of European integration where it serves the interest of citizens in a progressive fashion."
