Joe O'Toole (Independent)

This is a serious issue. I do not want people taking cheap shots in public at those of us who accept the money. Over the weekend, the Laffoy commission started running advertisements encouraging people to send in details of their happy stories and good experiences of institutions. This situation has gone completely off kilter and this latest campaign designed to accumulate happy recollections is a misuse of Government money. It is an utter waste of taxpayers' money to advertise for people to write and tell us they had a good time in whatever institution they were in. That is nonsensical.