The Cost of Disability in Ireland – Final Report has been published by the Department of Social Protection. This detail of this study, which commenced in 2019, is very welcome and should inform…
When the Government’s new housing strategy, Housing for All, was published, much was made of the targets to build 33,000 new homes every year, including 90,000 social homes over the period 2021…
According to the Third Report of the ABHAILE Scheme, some 14,319 Personal Insolvency Practitioner (PIP) vouchers were issued between mid-2016 when the Scheme began and December 2019 (p.18). It…
The poverty risk of households in receipt of housing subsidies is two and a half times greater after they have paid their rent, according to Social Justice Ireland’s latest study, titled…
In 2014, the Local Government Act was amended to introduce Public Participation Networks (PPNs). They were set up to provide a mechanism by which citizens can have a greater say in local…
Minister Catherine Martin T.D. has today launched an online consultation on a pilot Basic Income for the Arts. The online consultation opens today and is available for response here until the…
The latest data released from the CSO indicate that 13.2 per cent of the population, more than 660,000 people, were at risk of poverty in 2020. But the cost of accommodation is not included in…
The Government of Ireland published the National Risk Assessment 2021/2022 (NRA) on Friday, 17th December 2021. The NRA was introduced post-2008 to provide an outline of the key risks for Ireland…
The European Commission published the Annual Sustainable Growth Survey (ASGS) in November 2021 which launched the 2022 European Semester cycle. This publication confirmed the on-going gradual…
661,518people in Ireland are living in poverty, of which 210,363are children.
133,627 people living in poverty are in employment; the “working poor…
