Budget deeply regressive, says Social Justice Ireland

The Government has introduced a “deeply regressive” budget for the second year in a row, Social Justice Ireland has said.

“It does nothing to foster economic recovery or to provide a vision and direction for the country,” said the organisation’s director, Fr Seán Healy.

He claimed it was both socially and economically regressive. On the social side, he said it hit people on low incomes, including the working poor, more than it hit the better-off.