Social Justice Ireland regrets the extension of the Help to Buy Scheme in Budget 2021. This Scheme was introduced to provide support for first time buyers saving for a deposit on a newly built…
Social Justice Ireland welcomes the establishment of the Commission on Pensions, but believes that rather than being restricted to examining the future of the State Pension Age, the…
Budget 2021 allocated €867m to Ireland’s Official Development Assistance (ODA) programme; an increase of approximately €30m on the amount pledged in Budget 2020.
Approximately €571m was…
Yesterday (29th October 2020) the CSO published the latest report on The Census Population from an Environment Perspective 2011 and 2016. As the name might suggest, this Report delved into the…
637,000 people in Ireland are living in poverty, of which 193,600 are children.
98,100 people living in poverty are in employment; the “working poor”.
886,000 people are…
The possibility of Britain and the EU failing to reach a negotiated comprehensive trade agreement over the next few weeks has been appropriately highlighted as a key context for Budget 2021.…
Budget 2021 was the first chance for this Government to show how seriously it is taking its commitment to the creation of a new social contract - an opportunity regrettably missed.
Covid-19…
Local Authorities spent over €185 million on emergency homelessness accommodation last year—over €507,000 per day and an increase of 26 per cent on 2018. This is compared to less than €10 million…
Social Justice Ireland welcomes the Budget 2021 decision to increase the carbon tax from €26 per tonne to €33.50 per tonne and that Government signalled the pathway to a carbon tax of €…
Budget Criteria
Budget 2021 must be judged by the degree to which it protects people from poverty, equips people and businesses to confront Covid-19 and Brexit,…
