Sir, - It seems as if for as long as I have had some level of political awareness questions have been asked about the source of Mr. Haughey's obviously immense but invisible income, and about how he managed to assemble such valuable but expensive to maintain assets. The trouble was that the questions were asked only by political opponents, journalists and the occasional man in the street.
Were those questions not asked by those whose duty it was not only to ask them but also to insist on an answer and to be finicky about it? Were the Revenue Commissioners airily told: "Oh! I leave all that to Mr. Traynor" and did that answer convince them that he should be left in peace to look after the weightier affairs of his state? - Yours, etc., FRANK FARRELL,
Stillorgan, Co. Dublin.