Was the minister for real, or was it a joke?

SURELY the letter signed by a John O’Donoghue (Irish Examiner, November 23) was a joke. Or was it a hoax perpetrated on a minister who could not possibly have got his ‘facts’ so wrong.

Secure gun bins in civic centres for arms amnesties have been provided in Sweden and France, and recently in Northern Ireland for a knife amnesty.

FG has not proposed ‘drunk tanks’. The party wants supervised rooms where people presenting drunk at A&E can, after being medically examined, sleep it off in safety.