It's an injustice, it is

According to Germany’s Bertelsmann Foundation Ireland has one of the worst levels of social justice of all OECD member states, ranking 27th out of 31 countries. The German foundation based its study on the latest figures from the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development; the poverty figures are from 2009. The study looks at social justice as a measure of a citizen’s participation in society and the measures a state employs to include as many citizens as possible rather than compensating those who are excluded.In the study, researchers have pooled OECD data into five categories believed to have a considerable influence on the “fairness” of a society: poverty avoidance; education access; labour market inclusion; social cohesion and equality; generational equality.

Ireland is a consistently poor performer across the survey’s categories. Just Chile, Mexico, Greece and Turkey are more socially unjust.