The offices of Social Justice Ireland are closed from the 22nd December 2023 until the 2nd January 2024. We wish all our friends, members, supporters and colleagues a very Happy Christmas…
Investment in renewable energy and retrofitting on the scale required to meet our national climate ambition and maintain energy security requires large scale investment in infrastructure. The…
On Wednesday, 15th November 2023, Social Justice Ireland held our Annual Social Policy Conference. This year's Conference was on the theme 'A Just Transiton'. On the day we heard from a…
The European Commission has recently published the ‘Annual Sustainable Growth Survey’, launching the 2024 European Semester cycle of economic policy coordination. The report puts forward an…
This year's theme of the United Nations International Day of Persons with Disabilities (IDPD) on December 3rd 2023, will be "United in action to rescue and achieve the SDGs for, with and by…
How we adapt and mitigate to climate change now will in large part determine the type of world in which future generations will live. When adapting to meet this challenge, we must also grasp the…
For the past number of years, Government’s response to the housing crisis has been categorised by an over-reliance on the private rented sector and the introduction of badly-targeted subsidies…
Billed as a budget to tackle child poverty, Budget 2024 failed to live up to expectations. Child poverty is a reality for one in every seven children in Ireland, about 190,000 children; a stark…
Budget 2024 has included a combination of measures for both the current year (2023) and next year (2024). In Chart 1 we focus on the additional income that households will receive in 2024 as a…