Social Justice Ireland welcomes recent publication of ‘Funding the Future - Investing in knowledge and skills: Ireland’s competitive advantage’ by the Minister for Further and Higher…
Financial services were becoming increasingly digital, with more and more daily, everyday transactions moving on-line or becoming cashless even before the Covid-19 pandemic. The resulting…
The latest data from the CSO on Housing Assistance Payment (HAP) Properties by Local Electoral Area indicate that more than one in five, 20.9 per cent, of all tenancies registered with the…
The cost of living crisis is essentially an issue of adequate income. A Central Bank Economic Letter published in February found that the impact of inflation is greatest for those…
581,334people in Ireland are living in poverty, of which 163,936are children.
93,013 people living in poverty are in employment - the “…
The housing system in Ireland has become characterised by profit and privatisation: private developers building on State land; private landlords receiving large subsidies to provide “social…
The fundamental test for every Government is whether, when it leaves office, those with the least in our society are in a better position than when it entered office. The choices that Government…
According to the latest data from the Central Statistics Office total fossil fuel subsidies in 2020 were €2.2 billion, compared with €2.8 billion in value in 2019. The decrease was mainly due to…
Earlier this week, Irish Aid published its Climate and Environmental Finance Report 2020 detailing the "levels and channels of Ireland’s international climate finance". In the opening…
Ireland remains the only western European country without universal coverage for primary care[1]. Ireland’s health system ranked 22nd out of 35 countries in 2018 but on the issue of…
