For the past number of years, Government’s response to the housing crisis has been categorised by an over-reliance on the private rented sector and the introduction of badly-targeted subsidies…
Billed as a budget to tackle child poverty, Budget 2024 failed to live up to expectations. Child poverty is a reality for one in every seven children in Ireland, about 190,000 children; a…
Budget 2024 has included a combination of measures for both the current year (2023) and next year (2024). In Chart 1 we focus on the additional income that households will receive in 2024 as a…
Social Justice Ireland's Annual Policy Conference, beginning at 9.30am today, will address the topic 'A Just Transition".
The fundamental principle of a Just…
As well as tracking the post-Budget income levels of different households (see p6-8 of our Budget 2024 Analysis and Critique | Social Justice Ireland), Social Justice Ireland is also…
Data accompanying Budget 2024 outlines Government’s plans for taxation and spending over the next 4 years (to 2026). Over that period, assuming the policies signalled by Government are followed,…
Central to a thorough understanding of income taxation in Ireland are effective tax rates. These rates are calculated by comparing the total amount of income tax a person pays with their pre-tax…
Child poverty is a reality for one in every seven children in Ireland, about 190,000 children; a stark statistic that raises major questions for fairness and progress. Despite some recent…
The Consumer Price Index division with the largest increase in the 12 months to August 2023 was Housing, Water, Electricity, Gas & Other Fuels (+17.3 per cent), with actual rents for housing…
The number of homeless people accessing emergency accommodation in August 2023 was a record 12,691. This represents an increase of 50 per cent since Housing for All was introduced and 94 per cent…
