I would like to be one of the very first to congratulate the Road Safety Authority on a great job so far.

Is everybody else fed up hearing that somebody is suing a hospital, a school, the gardaí or whatever? They are in essence suing us - the taxpayers who are already up to our ears in debt, along with our children and grandchildren.

Just in case there is anybody left who does not understand the brass neck of the banks, I had an average of about €1,800 in my little savings account for 2012.

IT is depressing that, while we all have to work harder to make ends meet, bureaucrats are simply finding more ways to waste our hard-earned taxes.