Madam, - I read a few startling facts recently. First, that the public tribunals have been going on for seven years; second, the Minister for Finance has said, in reference to the barristers concerned in these tribunals, that they were "earning in three days what it takes an old age pensioner more than a year to get".
Third, the Labour Party leader has said, "I think the mood of the Public Accounts Committee is that it is no longer possible to avoid confronting the fact that the tribunals are a runaway horse, and either they have to be abridged or concluded by a different, speedier and cheaper method".
Why don't all the parties in the Dáil come together and set a time limit (say six months) on these tribunals? We have had enough of them, and it would appear that we will be no wiser about the corruption that has been revealed, and that nobody is likely to go to jail when all this is over.
Why this waste of money which is so badly needed by our hospitals? - Yours, etc.,
Fr PAT GRIFFIN, Waterville, Co Kerry.