Burden on Ireland's less well off highlighted

(Vatican Radio) A new report has been published showing the increasingly widening gap between rich and poor in Irish society. The policy briefing document was released by Social Justice Ireland.The findings show that the disposable income of less well off households fell by over 18 per cent in a single year, while the income of the most well off rose by more than 4 per cent.

“We feel there is something profoundly wrong with government decisions that produce this kind of lobsided distribution of income”, says the Director of Social Justice Ireland, Father Seàn O’Leary

Speaking to Lydia O’Kane, Father O’Leary said, the government’s strategy is hurting the most vulnerable at a time when “they are struggling to make ends meet in very very difficult times”.

He also adds that the burden being placed on the less well off is profoundly at odds with Catholic Social social thought tradition. Listen to Lydia O’Kane’s interview with Father Seàn O’Leary.