Cuts always aimed at the most vulnerable

IN her letter (March 11), Susan O’Neill thought my criticism (Letters, February 28) of Education Minister Batt O’Keeffe’s cuts of special needs classes was politically naive.

On the contrary, my criticism is based on long experience of the reality that it is the most vulnerable, the ones least able, pay when governments cut budgets.

If that is emotional, as she says, I do not apologise because not to feel strongly about this injustice would be to betray the suffering it causes.