Under the Paris Agreement agreed at COP15, Ireland committed to contribute to an overall target of $1 bn in Climate Finance. Ireland’s current Climate Finance target is €225m by 2025. In a…
Budget 2023 introduced a €500 tax relief for renters for years 2022 and 2023. Standardised average rents in new tenancies in Q1 2022 were €1,460 per month nationally, and €2,015 in Dublin. A full…
Budget 2023 includes a range of measures to address the cost of living and energy crises. Collectively they represent one of the largest and most complex budget packages in many years. Some of…
Welfare payments target those most in need within Irish society. They also play a central role in alleviating poverty. According to the latest CSO Poverty figures, without the social welfare…
In our Budget Choices 2023 submission, Social Justice Ireland called for an additional €1.4bn to be made available for social housing construction by Local Authorities and AHBs…
Budget 2023 saw the combined funding for education reach €13.4 billion; a €9.6 billion allocation for the Department of Education and a € 3.8 billion for the Department of Further and Higher…
Life on a low income is the norm for a large proportion of our society. One in every nine people in Ireland lives with an income below the poverty line (11.6 per cent of the population). Based on…
The Government’s Budget 2023 widened the rich/poor gap by €199 next year. Despite the welcome temporary measures to address the cost of living and energy crisis, in the long run this Budget…
The most recent data on environmental taxes in Ireland relates to 2021 and was published in by the Central Statistics Office in July. The data shows a total of €4.8 billion of environment…
A €20 increase in core social welfare payments in Budget 2023 must be part of a suite of targeted measures to support households on fixed incomes. A social welfare payment should provide an…
