Sir, - Shock, disbelief, anger. As a person who has voted Fianna Fail for most of my adult life, it was with these emotions that I heard the Minister's Budget proposals. Does he think he can throw money at me to make me feel good, and then belittle the work I do at home? However, what scares me most is not the blatant insult he paid me as a work-at-home mother; it is the fact that he can't even see that he has paid me an insult! So, after half a lifetime, goodbye Fianna Fail. - Yours, etc.,
Elizabethann Brabazon, Londonbridge Road, Dublin 4.