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Wellbeing for Ireland - Making a Paradigm Shift

Friday, 26 November 2021

In the Programme for Government, published last year, the Government committed that its "overriding focus is to improve the wellbeing of the Irish people and society". Part of that commitment was…

Participation for Wellbeing

Wednesday, 24 November 2021

When the Public Participation Networks were established in 2014, one of the areas they were tasked with was “going through a process to set out what they consider necessary to promote well-being…

Social Rights for All? Time to Deliver on the European Pillar of Social Rights - Conference Videos and Papers

Monday, 22 November 2021

On Wednesday, 17th November 2021, Social Justice Ireland held our Annual Social Policy Conference. This year's Conference was on the theme 'Social Rights for All? Delivering the European…

National Adult Safeguarding Day - 19th November 2021

Friday, 19 November 2021

Today, 19th November 2021, will mark Ireland's first Adult Safeguarding Day. According to Safeguarding Ireland, an organisation which promotes safeguarding of vulnerable adults to protect them…

The EU must not fail for the third time to tackle poverty, unemployment and social exclusion

Wednesday, 17 November 2021

Social Justice Ireland's Annual Policy Conference, beginning at 10am today, will address the topic 'Social Rights for All? Delivering on the European Pillar of Social Rights'.

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Lifelong Learning will be a key part of pandemic recovery

Monday, 15 November 2021

The OECD Skills Outlook 2021 looks at the need for countries to improve efforts to support lifelong learning to enable people to navigate a rapidly changing world of work shaped by globalisation…

Environmental Rights and the Community

Friday, 12 November 2021

The UN Climate Change Conference, COP26 comes to a close this week. However, for those involved in achieving the climate action goals of COP26, the work continues.

Communities are working…

Little Housing for All as new dwelling completions fall

Wednesday, 10 November 2021

According to the latest data from the Central Statistics Office (CSO), new dwelling completions fell by 7.7 per cent in Q3 2021, compared to the same period last year. Less than 5,000 homes were…

Progress towards ODA Targets in Budget 2022

Monday, 8 November 2021

Budget 2022 allocated €1.044bn to Ireland’s Official Development Assistance (ODA) programme; an increase of €140m overall including an increase of €33.9m in the allocation from the Department of…

Time to COP on to Climate Change

Friday, 5 November 2021

This week, the COP26 UN Climate Change Conference is taking place in Glasgow. This is a summit that will bring parties together to accelerate action towards the goals of the Paris Agreement and…