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…
Ireland's negotiations with the European Commission, the ECB and the IMF were concluded on Sunday, November 28, 2010. The bottom line is that Ireland's tax-payers, poor people and vulnerable…
The UN Climate Change Conference in Cancun, Mexico, concluded on December 11, 2010. Fr Sean McDonagh, SSC, attended the conference. Below are his final reflections on the agreement reached…
November 25, 2010 The New York Times
Eating the Irish
By PAUL KRUGMAN (Nobel laureate in economics 2008)
What we need now is…
