Poor wrongly hit by ‘faulty logic’

FLAWED analysis and faulty logic on the part of the Government has resulted in poor people being wrongly hit by swingeing budget cuts, according to a social justice organisation.

In its annual socio-economic review, Social Justice Ireland argues that the Government failed to acknowledge that improvements in social welfare rates in the mid-2000s were simply a partial “catch-up” for people who had been left far behind while others gained in the preceding years.

The group said this “flawed analysis” was combined with a “faulty logic” that justified targeting poor people without realising they were far less able to absorb the hits heaped on them.