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Expenses Controversy: Letter to the Editor in the Irish Times

Madam, – The Minister for Finance, Brian Lenihan, has said that the issue of Oireachtas expenses has to be put into perspective. Indeed it has.

Billions of people in our world live on the edge of destitution, thousands of children die each day from hunger, and many more die from lack of access to affordable medicines. – Yours, etc,

Fr PETER McVERRY SJ,

Jesuit Centre for Faith and Justice,

Upper Sherrard Street,

Dublin 1.

© Irish Times, October 9 2009

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