We must invest in the 66,000 carers who are the lifeline of our elderly

There would seem to be money for everything at government level.

In the civil service, pensions far in excess of the work performed are paid to people, already with full and plenty. Their salaries in their working lives were more than generous too.

Millions of euro are spent on tribunals of enquiry, on embassies, on trips abroad. The list is endless.