Government must ‘change our ways as a society’

ARCHBISHOP Diarmuid Martin has said the government should not simply focus on remedies for the budgetary deficit but instead needs to completely change the economy’s guiding philosophy.

He said the time had come for real political leadership because the current economic crisis has posed a significant challenge to government institutions.

“I believe that the challenge today is not just to fix it [the economy], but to change it and to change our ways of carrying out politics and to change ourselves as individuals and as a society,” the Archbishop said.