Charity begins at home

Published 26 Jan 2012 13:00 0 Comments

Dear Sir, - I was extremely interested in your headline of January 12, 2012 - 'Health Trust owed money for cross-border patient care', in relation to a query by Councillor Farrell. The platitudes of Councillors Baird and Britton about cross-border co-operation enrage me.

I co-operate with my neighbour on projects which benefit us both, I do not hand over my bank card and PIN number.

As one, (and there are plenty of others), who sat/stood in the corridor of the Erne Hospital for six hours waiting for a bed for which I had been booked for six weeks, it infuriates me to find that my taxes are being used to facilitate people from another country while I receive third-world treatment.

Some time ago I contacted the offices of two MLAs about this very subject and about people from ROI obtaining free medicines in Northern Ireland. The silence has been deafening.

I hope Councillor Farrell will have more success in pursuing these issues than I had.

Yours faithfully,

NI Tax and ratepayer

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This letter appeared in Impartial Reporter 26 Jan 12

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