McCarthy challenged to live on €193 a week

I WISH to challenge Colm McCarthy and his well-off ‘Bord Slash’ to come and live in Ballymun or Finglas in Dublin for a month on the €193 per week on which he expects more than 500,000 social welfare recipients to survive.

McCarthy is no independent economist. He has right-wing form. He was the ‘M’ in DKM, one of the cheerleaders of the property bubble and an advocate of tax cuts (the cause of the boom and bust).

He supported the privatisation of the Westlink toll bridge which resulted in a €25m bridge costing taxpayers and motorists €1,200m — a 4,700% overspend, I think].