According to Professor Karl Whelan (University College Dublin) much of IBRC’s (formerly Anglo Irish Bank) debt was incurred by the Irish state so that unsecured and unguaranteed senior bondholders…
The Quarterly National Household Survey conducted by the CSO, published February 14, 2012 shows that 30% of households headed by a person who is unemployed had borrowed money from family or…
There is no greater challenge facing Ireland than getting our people back to work. There have
been over 300,000 job losses since a flawed economic model collapsed in 2008 and there are…
The Irish Government’s ‘Action Plan for Jobs - 2012‘ contains more than 270 actions, identifies the Government Departments and agencies responsible for implementing each of these, and sets out…
Ireland’s unemployment crisis remains the striking feature of the current recession. Despite this, in Budget 2012 and in the months since the Budget was annnounced, Government has…
Social Justice Ireland published a policy briefing on Child Poverty and Child Benefit which can be accessed here.
According to Eurostat figures published on February 6, 2012, Ireland had the fourth highest ratio of government debt to GDP in the EU at the end of the third quarter of 2011 at 104.9%. This…
Most social welfare rates are not adequate to provide a standard of living seen as socially acceptable in Ireland according to a study conducted by the Vincentian Partnership for Social Justice…
Proposals in the 2012 Finance Bill to provide tax incentives aimed at luring senior multinational executives to Ireland mark a return to the worst practices of manipulating the tax system to…
