Madam, - Frank McNally suggests (An Irishman's Diary, November 7th) that Dáil Éireann could equally effectively be run with half the current number of incumbents (166).
One wonders how many years salary by way of redundancy payment for each year of service completed would need to be paid to ensure such a desirable, very necessary and long-overdue downsizing and rationalisation to be effected in a timely and efficient manner? - Yours, etc,
PHILIP O'REILLY, Grosvenor Place, Rathmines, Dublin 6.