I HAVE just listened to Michael Healy-Rae TD on our national broadcaster saying he is the only person in Ireland who pays for other people’s phone calls.

SO, Michael Healy-Rae is complaining about paying the money for the mystery Dáil calls when he says: “I’m paying back money I don’t owe.”

MICHAEL HEALY-RAE, you have to pay other people’s phone bills?

PEOPLE would enjoy watching Gaelic football more if it were not quite so robust.

THE Achilles heel in the argument against proposals for increasing the number of women candidates comes at the end of Kevin Cooney’s letter (June 30).

THE news that Cork City Council has agreed to sell its refuse collection to Country Clean, highlights the failings of the public service when compared to private enterprise.

THE decision by Tim Lucey to allow the sale of Cork city’s waste refuge to be sold to a private operator is one which I deeply oppose.

I READ with interest your editorial (June 27) on the PET-CT scanner in Cork University Hospital.

IF only Enda Kenny was Taoiseach and the Government had a thumping great majority, then I’m sure he would pass emergency legislation to put a stop to the orgy of bonuses, allowances, excessive pensions and salaries across every single sector of the public sector.

THE decision by Deputy Michael Healy-Rae to pay the cost of the premium-rate phone calls which were made in Leinster House in support of Mr Healy- Rae’s appearance on Celebrities Go Wild, is to be welcomed. However, it should not be an end to the issue.