The full text of the Finance Bill 2011 and related documents can be accessed below.
The Document can be accesed here
The economic and financial crisis in Ireland poses a disproportionate threat to vulnerable segments in the country who benefitted little from its economic boom in the first place, the UN…
Social Justice Ireland believes that:
- Ireland is in an extraordinarily precarious position as it seeks to meet the requirements of the EU/IMF bailout programme…
Social Justice Ireland welcomes Government’s publication of the Climate Change Response Bill 2010. While some of its proposals are welcome the Bill is weaker than the Government’s…
Ireland is the fourth most socially unjust of the OECD member countries according to the Bertelsmann Foundation. The study examines social justice as a measure of citizen’s participation…
Was it fair to cut welfare rates in Budget 2011? Did the increases in social welfare rates in the mid-2000s justify a reduction in rates in Budget 2011? The Minister for Finance and…
Budget 2011 is unjust, unfair and unacceptable. The choices made will rob the poor to protect people and institutions who caused many of Ireland’s problems through their reckless gambling with…
Full text of the EU/IMF Programme Documents can be accessed here
Fiscal Measures in the Programme
Taxation
Lowering of personal income tax bands and credits or equivalent measures
A reduction in pension tax relief and…
The insult to Ireland’s poor and vulnerable people originally perpetrated by EU Commissioner for Economic and Monitory Affairs, Mr Olli Rehn (when he refused to meet representatives of these…
