Madam, - David Quinn (February 8th) is right. Minister for the Environment Dick Roche, instead of telling what he is not going to do, might recommend we do as the Swedish government is doing. Which is to set up a committee of "industrialists, academics, farmers, car-makers, civil servants and others to attempt to wean itself off oil completely within the next 15 years".
While I would have a certain worry about the composition of such a committee here in Ireland, I have no doubt that the idea is correct. How about it, Mr Roche? - Yours etc.,
DERRICK HAMBLETON, Kingston, Galway.