Wasting millions

I AGREE with James McGrath (‘Big spender’, Letters, October 14) that among ministers who have nearly bankrupted the country, Noel Dempsey — currently in the Transport portfolio — holds a special place of honour among his peers for extravagant waste of taxpayers’ money.

He was the first to approve the evoting machines and he presided over the expenditure of €60m of taxpayers’ money on Samuel Beckett bridge in Dublin, which is all but inaccessible.

The Dublin port tunnel, which cost hundreds of millions of taxpayers’ money, is totally under-utilised.