Numbers don’t add up as cuts set to hurt weakest and vulnerable

A COMPLETE and total poverty of imagination.

That’s what this Government is suffering from. The more you look at the details of the budget, the more you realise it’s a bean-counting exercise. And pretty pathetic beans they are.

You could pick out a lot of individual measure in the budget as examples. Let’s just look at three. And I’m picking them because they are three things that will contribute, more than almost any other, to an increase in social injustice in Ireland. None of them are necessary. None of them will solve our fiscal problem.