Politics
Daniel Murray: new child poverty unit puts issue at centre of coalition’s next period
Leo Varadkar’s new child poverty unit must deliver or it will play into the narrative that this government has failed on its most important policies
Setting out the priorities for the second half of the government’s term, new Taoiseach Leo Varadkar focused on housing, inflation, clean energy, security, regional development and child poverty.
Some of those focuses were drawn from the pool of crises the Taoiseach said the country was now facing, including climate, the war in Ukraine, housing, and the cost of living.
But the clear emphasis on child poverty was somewhat of a surprise, not because it shouldn’t ...
