At this time of year, every year, the media highlights the expense of children going back to school. It is expensive to raise a child, and there are issues in the system that could be looked at. But I can’t understand how people constantly say that there’s not “free education”.

WILL the new levy apply fully to the funding of politicians’ pensions?

IT was with dismay that I heard of another politician involved in making an inappropriate intervention in the judicial process.

YOUR report (February 29) on RTÉ presenters’ pay means I will take a more jaundiced view of the station’s reports on the pay of polititians or public servants.