Sir, – It has been reported that the party emerging from Lucinda Creighton's Reform Alliance will not apply the whip on issues of conscience ("New political party plans to recruit Independents", Home News, June 3rd).
In her time in Government, Ms Creighton voted for cuts to single mothers, the sick, the elderly, as well as a raft of regressive taxes. I wonder if these and similar policies shall fall under the remit of “issues of conscience”, or whether, as I fear, moral concerns apply only to the unborn? – Yours, etc,
COLM O’MAHONY
Woodlands,
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Greystones,
Co Wicklow.