The provision of adequate and appropriate accommodation should be a key element of a new Social Contract. The current pandemic has highlighted both the spectacular failure of successive…
Investment in our Environment and a Just Transition – priorities for Budget 2021
As we look towards the future and rebuilding our society and our economy we have the…
Though Ireland faces a number of significant challenges, it is important to remember that hundreds of millions of people in much poorer countries face a far worse situation.
Budget 2020…
Community and Voluntary Sector
The cuts to funding for the Community and Voluntary sector made during the last recession have yet to be restored. Covid-19 has again…
Investment in Education – priorities for Budget 2021
Education is widely recognised as crucial to the achievement of our national objectives of economic competitiveness,…
A new report from the Occupational Pensions Stakeholder Group (OPSG), published last month, provides an excellent analysis of the gender gap in pensions and provides advice on practices to reduce…
The primary focus of Budget 2021 and 2022 should be on increasing employment and delivering infrastructure and services, NOT on reducing the deficit; it is crucially important that we do not…
It is concerning the new Programme for Government does not mention youth unemployment or a strategy to tackle it, particularly given the manner in which young people will likely be…
Increase in Financial Distress likely post-COVID-19
Over one million people were in receipt of COVID-19-related income supports as of May this year. 584,641 were in…
The Programme for Government of the 33rd Dáil contains a commitment to continuing the pathway started by the previous government to roll out a system of auto-enrolment into private pensions for…
