THE Government must increase social welfare rates, provide more social housing and tackle the two-tier health system if Ireland is to move towards a fairer society, according to a leading social justice campaigner.

I WAS outraged to read of Charlie McCreevy’s unwarranted attack on Fr Sean Healy, director of CORI (Irish Examiner, September 13).

A SOCIAL justice campaigning priest yesterday rejected claims by outgoing Finance Minister Charlie McCreevy that the economic policies of the Conference of Religious in Ireland would bankrupt the economy.

The Conference of the Religious in Ireland today hit back at criticism that its economic policies would bankrupt the economy.

THE Coalition parties meet today to plot their next steps in Government, yet they seem to be heading in opposite directions.

TOO-LOW tax rates are leading to poverty and are the cause of many of the country’s social and economic ills, a religious body said yesterday.