Sir, - Recent correspondence on this topic, and Kathryn Holmquist's interview with Roisin Shortall, prompt me to write. The allowance for a child in a lone-parent family is only £2 a day - not even enough to pay the bus fares to school, not to mention food, schoolbooks, clothes, or The Irish Times! - Yours, etc.,
Whitechurch Hill, Dublin 16.