Poor Can’t Pay campaigners appeal for Government to protect vulnerable

CAMPAIGNERS against budget cuts to low-income families held a mock cabinet meeting to appeal directly to government ministers to protect the vulnerable.

The Poor Can’t Pay campaign, whose members include Barnardos, Focus Ireland, SIPTU and the Saint Vincent de Paul (SVP), took a seat around the “Cabinet” table on Molesworth St yesterday as the country was digesting the controversial Commission on Taxation report.

The campaign’s message is that people earning the minimum wage or living on social welfare did not cause Ireland’s economic crisis and should not be forced to pay the price of the recession.