Sir, – I know that the first duty of a bureaucracy is to perpetuate its own existence but it would seem the Road Safety Authority is particularly acquisitive of new functions and, perforce, staff. The RSA wants details of our financial wellbeing so that increased fines can be levied on the better-off – a distinction that seems to follow from the type of car being driven ("Rich drivers should pay heavier fines for speeding, says RSA", December 7th). What an opportunity for the RSA! Think of all the meetings to be arranged to tease out the basis for the graduated fines to be levied. Where are they going to get the information? Revenue? What happened to equality before the law? – Yours, etc,
ROBERT TOWERS,
Monkstown, Co Dublin.