Healthcare crisis - Waste of resources a scandal

As the Dáil returns this week after its protracted annual summer holidays, the Government faces a plethora of contentious issues, which have to be addressed urgently.

Not least of those are the disturbing and hugely embarrassing revelations about tax evader Michael Collins, and his Fianna Fáil colleague GV Wright who faces a drink-driving charge in which a woman was seriously injured.

Those are matters which undermine the confidence of the people of the probity of public representatives who are an inherent part of the legislative process in this country.