Your letters, your views...

Your letters, your views...

Your letters, your view.

The news is full of people saying that we have a housing crisis. We do not.

The current ludicrous state of our government reminds me of JK Galbraith’s remark in 1969.

Over the last few years it has become increasingly clear why our hospitals are overflowing — government negligence.

Having listened to the recent revelations in and around the BBC on the Jimmy Savile enquiry, one thing stood out that explains the slow collapse of our country. 

What I have noticed over the last few years is that decent taxpayers are always held individually responsible for their actions by the law. 

Re last Saturday’s article on Ivan Yates, in this aspect, I have sympathy with the man.

Up to 90% of Americans surveyed want to know if their food is genetically modified [through labelling].

Over the years since Micheál Martin was minister of our collapsing health services and Enda Kenny became head of FG, I have watched them both performing and thought them both men of great promise.

Civilisation will finally reach Ireland only when our politicians become as afraid of upsetting decent taxpayers and voters as they clearly are of upsetting banks and large corporations.

On behalf of humans everywhere, thank you for printing a letter on Wednesday about electroconvulsive therapy (ECT).

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

One of the measures of how worthless our FF/FG governmental system has become is the ever-increasing number of charity requests, especially at this time of the year.

As a senior reporter in Brussels told me recently, this ‘refugee crisis’ is carefully organised.

Richard Barton is right to criticise the Minister for Health for the faults of the health service ( Letters, November 7). 

I was very impressed with the way that the last ‘Reeling in the Years’ handled one of my favourite politicians. At the beginning was Bill Clinton playing with words when discussing his sex life.

Yet again we see governments, including our own, bumbling around and trying not to offend any prospective voters, instead of solving a problem.

Many of the headlines recently refer to the failings of our health service.

I agree with Richard Barton (Irish Examiner letters, August 10) when he says “any normal person anywhere would be happy winning €2m and only the insane would want to decrease their chances of winning anything”.

Just when I was thinking that this FF/FG governmental system could sink no further into the gutter, it comes up with a plan to make more money by decreasing the chances of anybody winning the Lotto.

If our ludicrous Fine Gael/Fianna Fail 2.5 party governmental system does not change radically, in the near future we shall be following Greece down the drain. 

I was angered to read the second front-page story for last Saturday’s edition ‘€140k for woman who had swab left inside her’ (Irish Examiner, July 4). 

I hear a lot about hospitals being overcrowded. After my experience at St. Vincent’s University Hospital, I believe that, except for the A&E, most of it is their own fault.

We have a Minister for Finance, a Chairman of the Central Bank and a Financial Regulator.