Madam, - Those criticising as well as those supporting the appointment of Mary Wallace as a junior minister are very vocal about geographical representation (The Irish Times, February 16th). Neither group adverts to the issue of gender representation.
Could this be related to the fact that roughly four-fifths of those in the Dáil and in the Cabinet are men? - Yours, etc,
Prof PAT O'CONNOR, Dean, College of Humanities, University of Limerick.