Minister’s letter just a cheap political jibe

WHILE I am no supporter of Fine Gael, I have to take issue with John O’ Donoghue’s inane drivel (Irish Examiner letters, November 23).

The minister castigates Fine Gael for proposing to compensate taxi drivers and eircom shareholders — two injured parties who had their money and value stolen from them by his party’s high-handed attitudes.

In view of the attacks on nurses in our A&E departments, FG’s ‘drunk tank’ proposals don’t seem as idiotic as the minister would have us believe. His own party seems to think that throwing more of our money at overpaid consultants will actually solve that problem.