On the 28th March 2022, Minister for Justice Helen McEntee T.D. published Justice Plan 2022. This plan sets out 159 actions that build upon Justice Plan 2021 and work towards delivering a justice…
As the Conference on the Future of Europe continues, the Report on the contributions per Member States indicate some interesting priorities for Ireland.
Of the 287 total…
Equity and justice must be at the core of climate action policy according to the latest Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) report Climate Change 2022: Impacts, Adaptation and…
The full report of the Chief Justice’s Working Group on Access to Justice Conference, which took place on the 1st and 2nd October 2021 has just been published.
Access…
A recent article by Paolo Mauro, Deputy Director of the IMF's Fiscal Affairs Department, looks at putting moral perspectives into public finances. Mauro argues that policy decisions on taxation…
The immediate policy challenges facing Ireland and hampering a fair and inclusive recovery are a totally inadequate supply of social housing; a two-tier healthcare system; climate change; digital…
Integration is defined in current Irish policy as the ‘ability to participate to the extent that a person needs and wishes in all of the major components of society without having to relinquish…
The latest data from the CSO indicates that more than one third of people aged 20-69 do not have any pension support outside of State payments. With an increasing and ageing population, there are…
Mental health is critical to individual well-being, as well as for social and economic participation and it is an increasingly important concern in both Ireland and Northern Ireland. The pandemic…
In the week that marks International Women's Day, figures from Eurostat show that across the EU, in 2020, having children in a household negatively affects the rates of employment for women. For…
