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BudgetMore than 807,800 forced to go without in 2025
The 2025 enforced deprivation figures published by the Central Statistics Office show that over 807,800 people still struggle to achieve a basic standard of living, including almost 236,000 children. The decrease in the proportion of the population experiencing deprivation since 2024 is welcome, however it is of concern that this decrease occurred at a time when one off income supports (since discontinued) were still in place for vulnerable households. These figures offer some insight into living standards across the state and show the impact of rising costs on peoples’ daily lives.
Enforced Deprivation 2025 – some key findings
Households with highest deprivations rates:…
Despite some improvements, deep inequalities in wellbeing persist
PPN Snapshot of the year 2024
Homelessness and the new Housing Plan: Encouraging Developments
Social Justice Matters Podcast - Aoife Ní Lochlain on Aviation and Fairness in Climate Policy: The Case for Making Flying Pay
Cost of living increases continue to have a substantial impact on low income households and older people - Poverty Focus 2025
The rapid increase in prices that emerged from mid-2021, whilst slowing, continues to persist. This poses particular challenges for low-income households. The cost of core essentials has risen sharply and households on low and fixed incomes, particularly those reliant on social transfers are having to make impossible…
Thought for the day
“A king with chieftains who always agree with him, reaps the counsel of mediocrity”
Does the New Housing Plan Match the Scale of the Challenge?
Delivering Homes, Building Communities 2025–2030: What's in the Plan?
Social Justice Matters Podcast - Social Justice Ireland on COP 30
The 2025 United Nations Climate Change Conference, or Conference of the Parties (COP) of the UNFCCC is the upcoming 30th United Nations Climate Change Conference, to be held in Belém, Brazil, from 10 to 21 November 2025.
Our research and policy analyst Michelle Murphy briefly sets out what COP 30 is all about and…
Who Owns the Planet? Rethinking Capital to Tackle Climate Change
The Climate Inequality Report 2025 from the World Inequality Lab argues that the climate crisis and wealth (and ownership) inequality are intimately connected and that effective climate policy must account for who owns what. The report opens by noting that the world’s remaining carbon budget for limiting warming (e.g.,…
Future Forty - a fiscal and economic outlook to 2065
Overlapping Hardships: Poverty and Climate Hazards
Social Justice Matters Podcast - Steven O'Connell from the Football Cooperative - A community football health intervention for Men
From Polarisation to Partnership: Strengthening Social Cohesion Across Europe
