The rising cost of living is driving a demand for help not seen before by Catriona Twomey of Cork Penny Dinners
Queues are becoming a regular feature outside Penny Dinners on Little Hanover Street a development that began just after Christmas and Catriona says they are now feeding about 500 people daily up from 300 with new faces arriving every day
Catriona says the rising cost of living, which is now running at over 6%, has led people who were managing in the past to turn for help now as they try to meet their rising energy, fuel and food bills and find that their wages are not stretching far enough to cover their basic expenses
Speaking to RedFM News Catriona Twomey says she does not accept that the Government cannot do any more to help people she says there is an onus on them to find a rounded solution to the crisis for the electorate to ease the financial burden on people
"It's a combination, so you can't fix this by addressing one thing. It's a combination of things and they all have to be addressed. and sooner rather than later, How much more can people take? And why should people have to take this in the first place? If you're working a 39 hour week, and you haven't enough to pay your basic bills or to get food sure something has to be wrong. And this is impacting our people, we are the electorate and the government says that they can't fix everything - it's their job, they must. The onus is on them to fix it. Get It Done"
