Each year, on the day after the annual Budget is announced, Social Justice Ireland produces an analysis and critique of that Budget. Included in that document is an assessment of the…
Budget 2017 yet again ignores the working poor. Although it contained a number of welcome initiatives, the working poor gain the least. The choices Government made in cutting the Universal…
One hundred years after the 1916 Rising Ireland faces major choices that will shape its future for the decades ahead. The dominant economic approaches and policies which have been favoured…
The latest issue of Social Justice Ireland's Employment Monitor examines regional employment trends. Figures released in August by the Central Statistics Office (CSO) show a…
Some tax proposals currently being considered by Government should be rejected because they would give far greater benefit to people earning higher incomes than to lower income employees. …
There will be nearly 1 million people aged 65 and over by 2031 – an increase of 86.4 per cent. Of these 136,000 will be aged 85 or over by 2031, an increase of 132.8 per cent. Now is…
Without the social welfare system almost 50 per cent of the Irish population would have been living in poverty in 2014. Adequate social welfare payments are required to prevent an increase…
Social Justice Ireland welcomes the publication of the Government’s Action Plan for Housing and Homelessness. However, we have concerns about the scale of the plan and the length of…
Government should spend €1bn fiscal space on infrastructure to improve productivity and competitiveness in Budget 2017. This would be a far better use of resources than giving tax cuts as…
Despite falling rates of unemployment and almost 47,000 jobs (net) being created in the year to end Q1 2016, the Jobs Gap stood at 166,200 at the end of March, and overall the economy was 193,100…
