Madam, - How odd! It is reported that up to €1 billion will have to be repaid to those misfortunate nursing home patients cheated out of their pensions, their plight having been ignored for years by heartless Ministers and a compliant Cabinet. Odder still that such a state of affairs could occur in the socialist paradise presently inhabited by our current Taoiseach. - Yours, etc.,
ARTHUR DUNNE, Blackrock, Co Dublin.