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BudgetSocial Justice Matters Podcast - Situating Ireland in the OECD Landscape of Long-Term Care Systems with Jacek Barszczewski, OECD
Our 2025 Annual Social Policy Conference was on the theme 'Care in a Changing World', bringing together voices from across the care landscape — carers, advocates, policymakers and organisations — to explore how care, rights and inclusion must evolve in a changing world.
Jacek Barszczewskijoined the OECD as a Health Policy Researcher in 2023, with a primary focus on social protection for long-term care. He holds a PhD in Economics from the Barcelona School of Economics and the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, where his research centred on labour economics, family economics, and migration.
He presented his paper 'Situating Ireland in the OECD Landscape of Long-Term Care Systems'.
All videos, papers and…
Poverty Focus 2026 - Older people continue to be negatively impacted by rising living costs
Budget 2027: More Regressive Subsidies and a Lack of Ambition on Housing
Budget Fails to Prioritise Most in Need in Face of Rising Cost of Living
Social Justice Matters Podcast - 10 Minute Lessons: A Per-Capita Tax Take
Budget 2027 - initial assessment
Budget 2027 - a pathway to sharing the benefits of growth for some, just not for those on the lowest incomes. The cost of living crisis is having the greatest impact on low income households – those reliant on social welfare or in low paid employment. Budget 2027 failed to prioritise these households sufficiently, and…
Thought for the day
“We shall do much in the years to come,
But what have we done today?
We shall give our gold in a princely sum,
But what did we give today?
We shall lift the heart and dry the tear;
We shall plant a hope in the place of fear;
We shall speak the words of love and cheer;
But what did you speak today?”
Towards an Affordable and Secure Homes Strategy in Budget 2027
Budget 2027 - planning for a Just Transition
Budget 2027 - a Budget for the Common Good
A budget directed towards the Common Good must do four things in 2027. It must promote fairness and a more equitable distribution of the economic resources at Government’s disposal. It must protect the most vulnerable and enhance resilience in the face of cost of living pressures, poverty and deprivation. It must…
Social Justice Matters Podcast - Rosi Leonard, Friends of the Earth on the Private Wires Bill
Rosi Leonard is the Data Centre Campaign Lead & Network Development Coordinator with Friends of the Earth Ireland. Her work is rooted in the aim to build power at local level and to deepen solidarity between different groups who are fighting climate change and its effects on lives and livelihoods.
She…
Building Better Supports for Ageing Well at Home
Government should prioritise social welfare rates in Budget 2027
Work, Low Pay & Welfare - Budget 2027
Budget 2027 - Education, Children and Families
