Unfair donation

So, according to Enda, nobody could object to Alan Shatter giving his severance package of €70,000 to the Jack and Jill Foundation.

Well I do. True, the foundation does wonderful work for sick children.

I have given donations to them in the past as have many others. Maybe not €70,000 but what we gave was our money! What Shatter gave was taxpayers money. His ‘entitlement’ to it rested on a technicality.

Why didn’t Shatter give €70,000 of his own money to the foundation?

Incidentally, it is claimed that this ‘donation’ is worth €50,000 to the charity. Does this mean that the State takes 41% in tax?

Brendan Casserly

Abbeybridge

Waterfall

Co Cork