Sir, – While most people would agree with Prof Rory Hearne’s aspiration to improve housing and general infrastructure (“Why isn’t there uproar about the decision not to invest budget surpluses in housing?”, Opinion & Analysis, July 31st), at a time of full employment, and even if ideologically the Government wanted to add €10 billion to this year’s infrastructure budget, where exactly would they find the extra tens of thousands of workers and, more importantly, how would we house them? – Yours, etc,
CHARLES McLAUGHLIN,
Dublin 8.