Making sense of cents

ACCORDING to Foreign Affairs Minister Dermot Ahern (April 5), there is not a “red cent in the Exchequer” for the proposed northeast hospital.

The hospital, possibly to be located in Navan, could cost €650 million.

The M3 could cost at least €800m, and most likely more — possibly €1 billion.

Why not shelve the double-tolled motorway, build the hospital and still have plenty left over to improve the current roads and public transport system?

Plenty of red cents. Plenty of common sense.

Declan Kenny

Mill Lane

Leixlip

Co Kildare