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The Government has approved a salary of €200,000 for the head of Irish Water, which we the taxpayers will be forced to pay, on top of all the other charges, to keep a new State boss, and a bureaucracy to match, in a lifestyle that is beyond the financial means of the ordinary taxpayers of this country.

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I WISH to compliment Mary Leland on her excellent article (Irish Examiner Property, October 8) on the proposed development of 1,500 houses in the grounds of Dunkettle House and the adjoining lands of Ballinglanna, Glanmire, near Cork city.

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WITH the introduction of the penalty points system on the over-taxed motorist and the compulsory DOE testing of vehicles over four years old, would it be possible to have the same penalty points system imposed on those who govern us for their neglect of public roads ?

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