Protests to halt cuts in child benefit

A NATIONAL protest campaign intent on reversing Government plans to cut child benefit is to be waged in the build up to December’s budget.

As public anger against Government policy grows, a strategy meeting was told it will take an aggressive public movement over the coming weeks to save the universal payment.

The National Women’s Council of Ireland, which hosted the meeting, said there was no way mothers could accept any change to the benefit payment without a fundamental reform of childcare and welfare structures.