Sir, - It was kind of Mr McLoone, chairman of the Public Service Committee of ICTU (November 10th) to draw attention to your "highly inaccurate report" regarding the anger and anxiety of the public service pensioners at a three per cent award.We would ask what was Mr McLoone's union doing since April 1997 when we, the Public Service Pensions Action Group, first drew attention to the removal of pay parity from pensioners who retired before June 1st, 1996. We were the only group who acted to redress the situation - a situation known to the unions as signatories to the PCW which created it.We made the running from start to finish. We would remind readers and pensioners that it was as a result of our activities that the now famous joint statement was issued on the eve of the General Election and it was to our group it was addressed and actually delivered, not to Mr McLoone's or any other union.We tried many times over the last eight months to contact Mr McLoone's union (our union before our retirement) to take up our case. The silence was deafening and continued to be so until Mr McLoone and Senator O'Toole made dramatic entrances on the stage on the evening of November 4th, 1997, and on TV cancelled the pensioners' public protest of November 5th - into the organisation of which neither of these two gentlemen had the slightest input.As far as we are concerned, we were not satisfied with the situation as we saw it until our meeting with the Department of Finance the following day when we received confirmation on the restoration of parity and were satisfied that the matter had been resolved. - Yours, etc.,Thomas F. Maher,Group secretary,Public Service PensionsAction Group,Goatstown,Dublin 14.