This is the same Plan which commits to eradicating consistent poverty by 2016 but the measures released this afternoon by the Government will go a long way towards driving more people deeper into poverty. Paul Ginnell, Policy and Support Worker with EAPN Ireland, stated that ‘while we know that the measures announced today will substantially increase poverty in the country we are demanding that the Government produce a detailed poverty impact assessment to explain the real impact of the decisions the Minister for Finance announced today. All they have published so far is a brief statement justifying what they had already decided to do‘. Read more on EAPN Ireland’s website