Sir, – Regarding Darragh McDonagh’s article regarding expenses on luxury vehicles and armoured cars for EU delegations, I struggle to see the aim of the article beyond click-bait (“Ireland to spend €6.5m on luxury vehicles and armoured cars during EU presidency,” December 17th).
These days I am struck by the sheer number of articles headlined “X to cost state Y million euro”, with little explanation as to why it might be worth spending that money on occasion.
I think the €6.5 million spent on secure cars is a reasonable price to avoid the embarrassment of a security breach against a foreign dignitary on Irish soil; especially given the phone pouches cost €9 million. – Yours, etc,
CONOR MAC DONNCHADHA,
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Dublin 7.
