Madam, - If, as Stephen Fitzpatrick explains (October 6th), the PDs "achieved gender balance in the past three consecutive Dáil terms, and ran the highest percentage of female candidates in the last election", then why did so few people vote for them last May? I wonder if it had something to do with PD policies? - Yours, etc,
PATRICK O'BYRNE, Shandon Crescent, Dublin 7.