Ministers opt for jets but jettison the needy

SO, we are going to have three Government jets. We are told this is necessary because we are a modern European nation and our Taoiseach, ministers and senior civil servants must look and act the part.

But we are not a modern European nation. We are a country that has one neurologist for every 300,000 adults. A modern European nation has one neurologist for every 20,000-30,000 adults.

We have one immunologist for every two million people, not very modern when you consider that one in three Irish people now has an autoimmune condition.