Cosmetic changes don’t alter the fact we’re still an unequal society

Fergus Finlay writes an open letter to Minister for Public Expenditure Brendan Howlin.

DEAR BRENDAN,

You’ve moved on already, I imagine. You worked immensely hard on the bits of the Budget that were your responsibility, and I’m guessing it gave you no small measure of pride to be able to announce significant increases in public investment for the first time in years. You deserved that. The job you’ve had to do since entering government has been perhaps the heaviest lifting any Labour minister in history has ever had to do.