Labour Senator James Heffernan ponders whether it was appropriate that the portraits of politicians who had been “found culpable of corruption, of abuse of power, abuses of privilege and, indeed perjury”, should still hang in Leinster House.

You report that the household charge speech delivered to the Fine Gael Árd Fheis by Phil Hogan contains the following: “I have sought to protect the most vulnerable in society and have exempted large numbers of groups that are in greatest need“.

I read The Irish Examiner article: “Archbishop: Secularism not all bad for Ireland”.

In his Árd Fheis speech on Saturday night Taoiseach Enda Kenny stated “We had intended to legislate to end upward-only rent reviews, but this proved impossible because of constitutional difficulties”.

The Government hopes to collect €160 million from the new household tax.

A corrupt government agreed to pay the debts of corrupt bankers with law- abiding people’s money.

The small protest that blocked one entrance to the Fine Gael Árd Fheis was for the most part noisy and peaceful.

As a UCC dairy science graduate, working in the food industry overseas, I totally oppose the proposed ban on the advertising of cheese to children before 9pm.

The standards by which people receive impaired permits as a result of their medical condition allowing them to park without paying may need to be reviewed.

The visit of Pope Benedict to Cuba again highlights the farcical situation whereby the Pope can visit Cuba and no embargoes or sanctions will be imposed on the Vatican by the US, and at the same time the US government has imposed sanctions on any nation that deals in trade with Cuba since 1962, causing untold hardship on this small but fiercely independent nation.