Plea for social partners to help tackle poverty
Combat Poverty director Helen Johnston said local authorities and regional programmes had a key role to play in tackling poverty. “Structural factors such as unemployment, age dependency, lone parenthood, illness and lack of qualifications are paramount in determining poverty levels,” she said, at a conference in NUI Maynooth, part-hosted by the National Institute of Regional and Spatial Analysis (NIRSA).
“The partnership talks and Budget 2006 offer real opportunities to tackle these structural issues.”
