Cllr Tom Doherty, Killarney, raises an important point in relation to “head” shops.

110,000 fixed penalty point notices have been cancelled. However there is not a shred of corruption, misconduct, or favouritism, according to an internal Garda report.

Our industrial policy is based on the thinking of Sean Lemass. It is outdated. Multinational companies over-represent industry in Ireland.

When a loved-one is sick in hospital, no one protests when we say their death would be a ‘merciful release’.

Now that the public-service unions are doing individual deals with the Troika ‘government’, let’s hope this is the end of the truly ruinous benchmarking, which was so beloved by the unions and politicians.

For centuries, the representatives of a foreign state, the Vatican, have enjoyed the luxury of being able to impose their will upon us. Through subtle coercion and fear-mongering, clerics have, for too long, operated here without hindrance.

The recent National Hurling League final at Nowlan Park could so easily be described as the ‘Rugby-Hurling League final’ such was the intensity and ferocity of the exchanges throughout.

So Myles Duffy (Letters May 14) criticises National Bus and Rail Union members because they have the temerity to actually want to maintain a standard of living.

In the Department of the Environment, Community and Local Government’s Action Programme for Effective Local Government, Putting People First 2012, it states that “there would, accordingly, appear to be a good case in principle for considering a boundary alteration in Cork with a view to creating a wider Cork Metropolitan area.

Can passing legislation of a controversial nature without a vote be good for democracy?