The RTÉ report on the standard of care (or the lack of) in creches raises a stark and pertinent question, given that créches which repeatedly breached regulations received clean bills of health (and funding) from the HSE.

The RTÉ report on the standard of care (or the lack of) in creches raises a stark and pertinent question, given that créches which repeatedly breached regulations received clean bills of health (and funding) from the HSE.

I’ve just read that Frances Fitzgerald, Minister for Children and Youth Affairs, is to ask the HSE to review the creche-inspection reports.

Too many of us think that our children are safe in schools. More than 35 years ago, a teacher hit me. I hit him back. He never did it again.

There is a subliminal message in the CAP argument. CAP is to control and restrain agricultural production; it is to be replicated by programmes to control and restrain all other forms of production.

I could not disagree more with the letter (Foreign aid should be stopped immediately, May 28).

What happens the money collected by the local property tax? You don’t need to be Constantin Gurdgiev to understand.

I refer to your front page article on May 28 in which your reporters, Juno McEnroe and Seán McCárthaigh, claim that I had asked families to risk incurring penalties in relation to non-payment of the family home (property) tax.

In Ireland and elsewhere, many opposing access to abortion do so claiming the “sanctity of life”. I write this, you read this, and we all understand that this refers to the “life” of the foetus.

The alarming admission in the Dáil last week by Communications Minister Pat Rabbitte that the television licence evasion rate has reached 16% is a symptom of catastrophic systemic failure.