Sir, - December 1999: My wife is at home looking after our mentally handicapped, 16-year-old daughter, with no chance to getting back to work.
December 2000: My wife is still at home looking after our mentally handicapped, 16-year-old daughter - with no chance to getting back to work.
But now we are further penalised because Mr McCreevy thinks she is lazy and should be out there "working" for a living. This Budget is for the "I" generation, it is for the cute and clever, it is certainly not for me trying to do the best for my family and community. Is this the kind of country I want to live in? But then I can't leave Ireland as I have a daughter with a mental handicap. - Yours, etc.,
Tony Murray, Griffith Court, Fairview, Dublin 3