Dear Sir,

I am really ticked off but Leah Scott has told us not to blame the PLP for everything.

Five days ago I had an MRI at the hospital. I had to go headfirst into a tube, there was no music available (perhaps the equipment had been stolen like the remotes to the state-of-the-art TVs in the new wards).

My ears are still not right. I was given inadequate little ear plugs that were a waste of time.

Now how much did the hospital cost? I hear it was $10 million for consultants but the taxpayers are not important enough to get a state-of-the-art machine like the one at the clinic on Harbour Road owned by he who cannot be named. Why don’t the OBA just publish all the receivers of funds for the hospital as well as the golf course and the TCD building?

I know prosecution will not work because of the jury system but the Attorney-General could have sued them in civil court, so at least publish. I paid my taxes for nearly 50 years and I pay some now as a pensioner. In 2003 there was still more than $200 million in the kitty. By 2010 we were $1 billion in debt (I know there was a recession but it was only part of the problem).

Taxpayers voted for those guys; are they going to do it again? They want to be consulted but they should not be insulted when I say they must not be trustees of the taxpayers’ money!

JOE WAKEFIELD