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Our Finance Minister is content in spoiling the ship for a halfpenny worth of tar with his fiver (at his own convenience). This is as bad as the days of Gormley’s ban on lightbulbs; Bruton’s tax on children’s shoes and Lenihan’s ‘call to patriotism’ when the medical cards were almost snatched from under our noses with the famous good-chap wink of approval from the other Brian.

As someone quipped lately ‘we are improving worse’. Francis Sharkey, Blackrock, Co. Louth.