€630m boost to tax revenues

Madam, - Now that the Government has received €630 million more in tax revenue in the first five months of this year than it …

Madam, - Now that the Government has received €630 million more in tax revenue in the first five months of this year than it had budgeted for, would it consider reversing the remaining 15 social welfare cuts introduced in the Estimates last November in order to save €52 million, and which are seriously hurting many poor people? - Yours, etc.,

Father PETER McVERRY, SJ, Jesuit Centre for Faith and Justice, Upper Sherrard Street, Dublin 1.