Bertie’s travel costs are ours — not his own

IN your report (December 28) on the carbon footprint of various ministers, you stated in a caption under a photo of the Taoiseach — “Bertie Ahern: Driving to work costs him €3k a year”.

I presume you intended this to have read that driving the Taoiseach to work costs us, the taxpayers, €3k a year?

It may be the case that our money-grabbing Taoiseach views the public purse as confetti for his own personal use, as shown by the controversy over his own pay hike, his comments about not having his own Élysée Palace, and his abuse of taxpayers’ €25k a year on make-up.