Irish Examiner view: Let’s make zero poverty our new goal

We now have a cost-of-living crisis, with the price of fuel and other transport costs soaring. Even the cost of food is rising

Public Expenditure Minister Michael McGrath has said that “the current inflationary cycle that we are in won’t last forever”. Picture: Gareth Chaney/Collins Photos

We have so many crises in Ireland it is hard to keep track; there is the spiralling cost of mortgages and rent, which affects hundreds of thousands of Irish residents, particularly young people. 

In the 1980s, it took three to four years’ average salary to afford the average home; now it takes multiples of that, so we have a housing crisis.