When it comes to travel, why is there one law for the rich and another for the poor?

Reason: Minister Heather Humphreys said those in receipt of welfare were being penalised because ‘we’re at a crucial stage in relation to the virus’

Colette Browne

Taoiseach Micheál Martin has denied his Government is unfairly targeting social welfare recipients, telling the Dáil yesterday that cutting the income of those who travel abroad is "not punitive". Really?

If that is the case, why has the right to non-essential travel, which social welfare recipients have always enjoyed, been quietly removed?