17.8 per cent of the population experienced enforced deprivation in 2019.
About 886,000 people were experiencing deprivation, an increase of about 143,000 from 2018.
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In July 2020, over six hundred thousand people, 601,362, were on waiting lists for outpatient procedures, according to data released by the National Treatment Purchase Fund (www.ntpf.ie). …
Budget 2021 is just six weeks away. Government has a number of options for increasing or reducing revenue, and increasing or reducing expenditure. Income tax is a very significant area of revenue-…
The OECD has published Employment Outlook 2020. The report notes that the COVID-19 pandemic has triggered one of the worst jobs crises since the Great Depression and the real…
Access to equitable and quality education through all stages of life is the aim of SDG4. It focuses on increasing the number of youth and adults with employment and entrepreneurship opportunities…
It's not so long ago that Brexit and its potential effect on Irish society was the story that couldn't be shifted from the top of the news agenda, and was the focus of so much of the Irish…
Statistics produced by Safe Ireland indicate that 1,138 women and 1,667 children were accommodated in a refuge in 2018. Some 9,971 individual women and 2,572 individual children received some…
Budget 2021 follows a series of budgets over recent years that have frequently given emphasis to providing reductions in income taxation. Looking back over the past two decades, data from the…
By the end of 2018 there were 6,252 applicants for International Protection living in Direct Provision centres across the State, with centres reaching almost full capacity by December 2018. Since…
Investment priorities for Children and Families Budget 2021
Investment in children and families is an essential investment in our social and human capital now and into the…
