A chara, – Stephen Collins says we have it wrong when it comes to who gets most from the welfare budget (Front page, November 30th). The people think its the unemployed, but his figures show that it is pensioners. The problem here, I imagine, is that most don’t think of pensions as welfare, but as something that we have earned. Perhaps what’s really wrong here is treating pensions as welfare in the first place. – Is mise,
Revd Fr PATRICK G
BURKE,
Castlecomer, Co Kilkenny.