Five-star Fine Gael ideas are needed

I don’t want to come across as a carper, but I feel that the recent think-in of Fine Gael was in bad taste.

With hospital wards closing, and with thousands of good people out of work and taxes going up and services going down, Fine Gael are staying in a five-star hotel with all the benefits fit for a king.

I feel that staying in sucha a hotel, eating five-star meals (while coeliacs and diabetics are losing their reimbursements for gluten-free products) should be a reward for excellence, not for incompetence.

Unfortunately, I now feel that Fine Gael is just a group of politicians who, like the previous government, are letting the power get to their heads.

I think that the honeymoon for the new government is over. No more blaming the previous governments for the problems of today.

May I suggest that they just get over it, get on with it, and quit whining about everything from the past and start suggesting and implementing solutions for the future.

A five-star think-in should have five-star ideas.

Kevin Devitte

Westport

Co Mayo