Budget 2019 does nothing to tackle entrenched inequality

Budget 2019 fails to make any notable impact on Ireland’s entrenched inequalities and fails to tackle any of the major challenges the country currently faces, according Social Justice Ireland's Sean Healy.

Budget 2019 does nothing to tackle entrenched inequality

Budget 2019 fails to make any notable impact on Ireland’s entrenched inequalities and fails to tackle any of the major challenges the country currently faces, according to Social Justice Ireland's Sean Healy.

THIS budget pays lip service to social investment and skewed priorities and a reluctance to support much needed tax increases to fund public spending will mean inequality will remain fundamentally unchanged in Irish society.

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