Rabbitte: 60,000 children live in poverty

SIXTY-THOUSAND Irish children live in consistent poverty, Labour leader Pat Rabbitte told the Dáil yesterday.

Citing a report by the End Child Poverty Coalition, he said child poverty rates here were among the highest in Europe.

The Government target of eliminating child poverty by 2007 had “no realistic prospect of being achieved”. In fact, he said, inequality was actually widening.