Ireland should continue to play an active and effective part in promoting genuine development in the Global South and to ensure that all of Ireland’s policies are consistent with such development…
Three quarters of a million people are living in poverty in Ireland. Of these 230,000 are children. Poverty in rural Ireland is 4.5 percentage points higher than in urban Ireland. Poverty could…
Disability issues are not just confined to health services, medical cards or the social welfare system. Disability issues impact on all of our public services and should be at the heart of…
Ireland is in the midst of a social housing crisis and a homelessness crisis. The numbers of families living in hotels in the Dublin region doubled in 2015 and the numbers of new families…
Social Justice Ireland’s annual seminar to mark Global Justice Day will focus on TTIP, the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership. This is a series of trade negotiations being…
On 5th May the Department of Environment, Community and Local Government circulated a draft PPN User guide and also information on the PPN Advisory Group and on the devleopment of a CRM database…
The following circular was released by the Department of Environment, Community and Local Government on 5 April 2016. It covers the Activity Report 2015, Expenditure Report 2015,…
The historic climate deal agreed in Paris represents an opportunity for world leaders and nations to act decisively to limit the impacts of climate change.
The agreement itself is not a…
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…
There are 1.3 million people experiencing deprivation in Ireland, an increase of 215,000 since this Government came to office in 2011. The numbers experiencing deprivation have almost…
