after the next general election....

Its just an opinion but its not really in the long run that FF needs to be changed but more so, civil transparencies that need to be undertaken, evoked, and subsequently maintained.

Be it FF, FG, Labour or the local loony Muppet Fascist Gay and Lesbian Party branch or whatever that is trying to take control of the council, county and state - they all should be brought to adhere to a form of civil accountability.

Presently what we have in existence is window-dressing. Pure window dressing.
One simple example of this is the clocking in system now at the Dail. They have to clock in but don't have to clock out!!!
Still this system alone was made public with big drama as if to say "look, we are doing something. We are responding to your demands!"
- Rubbish -

As long as the present form of jokeable accountability and in-transparency exists, no matter what party falls into the next government seats, they too will take advantage of the current accountability (or effective lack of one) situation and use the broken system to their best ability. Power indeed corrupts by its very nature.

As for FF (I don't want to digress too much from the beaten track - I could but I won't), they will by hook or crook at the next election try to gain or retain as much power as possible at local levels as they have done since the foundation of the state.
They don't do this alone. All the other parties will try similar ...and thus we have the far too many abuses of the system and the bad consequences that we, the taxpayer, are retroactively forking out for.

If there is to be change in the long term - in the short term FIRSTLY, FF has to go.
Secondly, the rule book about transparency in the way business, political parties, unions, banks and civil service departments to begin with - has to be thrown out the bloody window and re-written from scratch.
Why?
Because the present system of rules has that many twists and turns, added addendum's, convoluted inserted clauses that suit one more than another - that the whole present system is a sad Irish joke - and seen so internationally.
...And as a poster in the last few days has pointed out, even the Greeks in their unholy bigger mess, consider themselves lucky that "they are not Ireland!"

Don't tell me that any one alternative fascist/socialist/democratic/loony org is going to bring about drastic changes upon one being kicked out and replaced by another alternative.

Sure we can kick out the parties like a dose of playing a never-ending game of musical chairs - but until we, the people address the underlying problem and not the "stop-gaps", we are only fooling ourselves that a change of party will bring about all the answers to our countries needs.

...its just one mans opinion though and not necessarily correct.