At a national level, a new structure for Social Dialogue is required where issues may be discussed in a deliberative manner. Any proposal for Social Dialogue should involve Government, trade…
Training, upskilling and reskilling will be fundamental to Government’s response to impact of COVID-19 on the labour market, meeting our carbon neutrality target and the challenges posed by…
Time to Deliver on the National Broadband Plan
As part of the Government’s response to the Covid-19 pandemic, schools, colleges, training centres and workplaces all closed…
In response to the question 'Which three Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) do you think require the most urgent action?' over 500 experts representing business, government, NGOs…
Poverty Focus 2021 analyses the contribution that increases to welfare payments and supports have made to recent reductions in the headline poverty risk measure. While progress in reducing poverty…
The Pensions Commission has completed its public consultation and is set to make its deliberations before its final recommendations to Government in June. While the issue of pension age will…
The Government announced yesterday (19th April 2021) the establishment of the Commission on Taxation and Welfare to look at "how best to support economic activity while ensuring sufficient…
A lesson from past experiences of economic recovery and growth is that the weakest in our society get left behind unless welfare increases keep track with increases elsewhere in the economy.…
Over the past seven years, Social Justice Ireland and other organisations have come together to form a technical group which researched and developed a Living Wage for Ireland. The latest…
The Government’s Stability Programme Update raises major challenges for Ireland on debt, infrastructure, taxation and services. A misplaced focus on the deficit and any return to…
