Sir, - Kathryn Holmquist's Paper Round column (November 17th) quotes a claim by the Clare Champion that "people on local authority housing lists in Clare are being neglected and discriminated against while State agencies off-load refugees in Ennis ..."
I am surprised that The Irish Times would quote this without comment. The housing shortage, which is causing real hardship to many families in Ennis and elsewhere throughout the State, has been created by the failure of successive governments to allocate enough money to public housing. It has nothing to do with the arrival in the country of a couple of thousand immigrants. - Yours, etc.,
for Anti Racism Campaign, Upper Camden Street, Dublin 2.