Madam, – We have read a lot about the McCarthy report and the Government’s plans to sell off our public assets.
Before anything is done that can not be undone, we must remember that the Government is only elected for a short period of time and that it is not its stake that it is proposing to sell off, but ours (the public’s).
Public assets have been built up and paid for by our past generations. If they are sold, their profits and their large contributions to the State funds will go to the new owners and the money raised by the sales will be swallowed up by our national debt.
In a democracy (the word means government by the people) the decision to sell or not to sell our public assets should be decided by the Irish people in a referendum.
We cannot change the past but the future is ours to decide. – Yours, etc,