Cutting back on the vegetables

Sir, – The support by Karen O'Leary of the National Consumer Agency (Home News, December 28th) for below-cost selling and vegetable price wars is so compelling that I would like to recommend the Government pay less for the vegetables sitting on many of the quangos it promised to abolish.

In Ms O’Leary’s own words “lower prices are good for the consumer” and in line with her views why not begin with her agency. – Yours, etc,

SEAMUS O’CALLAGHAN,

Bullock Park, Carlow.