A new Report from Mercy Law Resource Centre calls for urgent action to address barriers to housing supports for minority groups.
Mercy Law Resource Centre provides free legal advice and…
A recent publication by the Government’s own Parliamentary Budget Office provides an analytical model for public debt sustainability and shows, without debt consolidation or spending cuts, Ireland…
Ireland has made welcome progress on lifelong learning rates in recent years. Although our participation rate has been slowly improving (reaching 13% in 2019), those engaged in lifelong…
The gender employment gap is the difference in rates of employment for men and women. New figures from Eurostat shows that education has a key role to play in closing this gap. For those…
In 'Community Call: Learning from the Future' NESC looks at how Community Call was established, how it has developed, and the learning from this innovative programme. It found that…
In January 2021, the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage published the General Scheme of the Affordable Housing Bill 2020[1] (the General Scheme). Various mechanisms are contained…
There is a large disparity between the rates of minimum incomes across the EU27 as show by new figures released by Eurostat, but that’s only part of the picture.
Most…
Health is not just about healthcare. The link between poverty and ill-health is well established by international and national research. A World Health Organization Commission that reported in…
The report ‘Digital automation and the future of work’ by the European Parliament Research Service recognises that the impacts of technological change on work and employment are…
The latest Locked Out of the Market Report from the Simon Communities of Ireland shows that, contrary to expectation and an increase in supply, the Covid-19 pandemic restrictions did not lead…
