Learn lessons from crash – need to act now
European fiscal rules should accommodate and indeed encourage, when appropriate, investment as a basic tool of economic policy…
Almost since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, the advice has been to stay at home. Social distancing can help flatten the curve and save lives. On the 24th March, the Government…
To say the least, we are living in strange and unprecedented times. The coronavirus pandemic is arguably the greatest crisis the world has faced in living memory. It has implications for several…
As we face into the most difficult and challenging times most of us have ever known, it is important to acknowledge that despite well documented problems and challenges, Ireland is in the…
The Government has produced an Action Plan for Community Response to COVID-19 providing supports for Community and Voluntary organisations as they meet the challenge of supporting the most…
We need social policies that can adapt to changing realities, meet the challenges of a post-Brexit Europe and withstand future shocks. If this is not done, there is a real danger that social…
The most recent available data from the OCED confirms what has long been understood to be the case: the levels of low pay in the Irish economy at at a far higher level that among our peer…
Social Housing Needs Assessments – The Numbers
According to the Summary of Social Housing Needs Assessments 2019, published in December 2019, there were 68,693 households on the…
According to the latest data from the CSO (see chart 1) an early school leaver is three times as likely to be unemployed than the general population aged 18-24.
Chart 1: …
Social Justice Ireland believes strongly in the importance of developing a rights-based approach to social, economic, environmental, and cultural policy. Such an approach would go a long…
