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BudgetDelivering Homes, Building Communities 2025–2030: What's in the Plan?
Ireland’s new housing plan, Delivering Homes, Building Communities 2025–2030, is the Government’s latest attempt to respond to the severe pressures facing the housing system. Homelessness, affordability, and supply shortages are issues that continue to have a profound impact on quality of life in Ireland, despite being present for decades. The Government has framed this plan as a renewed whole-of-government effort to accelerate delivery and support communities.
At the core of the plan is a commitment to deliver 300,000 homes by 2030, including 72,000 social homes. This headline figure also includes affordable purchase homes, cost-rental homes, and private-market housing supply (both houses and apartments).
Before we deep…
Social Justice Matters Podcast - Social Justice Ireland on COP 30
Who Owns the Planet? Rethinking Capital to Tackle Climate Change
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
Steven O’Connell is the founder of Football Cooperative, an award winning social enterprise that places recreational football as a hook to bring men together to get active delivering positive health outcomes. Through a place based model, Football Cooperative incorporates a network of recreational football sites and…
Thought for the day
“A society grows great when old men plant trees, whose shade they know they shall never sit in.”
From Polarisation to Partnership: Strengthening Social Cohesion Across Europe
Ireland and the 2025 Trafficking in Persons Landscape
The Vital Role of Libraries in Empowering Communities and Fostering Lifelong Learning
Libraries provide an important social and educational role in Ireland, with over 53.6 million visits between 2018 and mid 2023 by 765,000 registered members, 76 million items issued across 330 branch libraries and 23 mobile libraries (including one cross border service). Operated by Local Authorities, they play an…
Unequal Wealth: Mapping Socioeconomic Disparities across the European Union
A new report by Eurofound examines wealth inequalities across EU Member States using data collected from the European Central Bank’s Household Finance and Consumption Survey (HFCS), covering the period between 2010 and 2021. It looks at how wealth is distributed (who owns what, and how much), what drives…
Budget leaves Ireland’s more vulnerable households condemned to prolonged hardship
Community Sport Facilities Fund: Driving Sports Infrastructure Across Ireland
Cost of Living Increases Push Living Wage to €15.40 per hour in 2025/26
Broadening the tax base can act as counter cyclical buffer in Budget 2026
