Cutting back on Ministers

Madam, – I welcome the Taoiseach’s gesture of asking all 20 junior Ministers to resign their posts so that he can drop five …

Madam, – I welcome the Taoiseach’s gesture of asking all 20 junior Ministers to resign their posts so that he can drop five of them. This will probably save the country less than €400,000.

Why doesn’t he do something really worthwhile such as asking all 166 TDs to resign, then we out here in the real world could re-select about 100 of them on June 5th when the local and European elections take place.

One hundred TDs would be more than enough to govern this small country. – Yours, etc,

MICHAEL GLEESON,

Bewley Avenue,

Lucan,

Co Dublin.