Social Justice Ireland welcomes the additional allocation of €34bn in funding announced as part of the National Development Plan (NDP) Review, of which €24bn is additional capital…
On June 5, 2025—World Environment Day—the Global Footprint Network announced that Earth Overshoot Day will fall on July 24 this year. This marks the date when humanity's demand for ecological…
In today’s (Thursday July 17th) Budget Forum, hosted by Minister for Social Protection, Dara Calleary TD, Social Justice Ireland will call on Government to prioritise…
It is helpful to compare Irish levels of poverty to those elsewhere in Europe. Eurostat, the European Statistics Agency, produces comparable ‘at risk of poverty’ figures (proportions of the…
A new paper from the Parliamentary Budget Office provides an overview of the Social Insurance Fund’s (SIF) operations, income and expenditure trends, and highlights key risks to its long-term…
Fairness must be at the centre of Budget 2026. We are wealthier than at any time in our history, and yet almost 630,000 people are living below the poverty line, 190,000 of whom are…
The EPA has published the National Climate Change Risk Assessment which provides the first comprehensive assessment of where, when and how climate risks are likely to…
In addition to tracking the post-Budget income levels of different households, Social Justice Ireland is also focused on assessing how the income divides between different household…
Budget 2025 marked the fifth and final Budget of the coalition Government that held office from 2020-2025. The first two of these were presented in the context of the challenging Covid-19…
Budget 2025, announced in October 2024, was the final budget of the outgoing coalition Government and was presented as some aspects of the cost-of-living crisis continued to challenge households…
