HINTS have been dropped to the media that the Government plans to add up to €15 a month to the already onerous Drugs Payment Scheme (monthly cost €90) in the budget.

CATHERINE SHANAHAN’S description of Passage West as ‘dishevelled’ (Irish Examiner, February 18) is both insulting and inaccurate.

The United States can expect a scientific exodus to Britain if Congress succeeds in criminalising ‘‘therapeutic’’ human cloning for medical purposes, biotechnology executives say.