There are 10,448 people accessing emergency accommodation, including 1,685 families. There are 68,693 households on the social housing waiting lists. There are more vacant homes…
What can the next Government do to ensure we have a society which ensures that all people from different cultures are welcomed in a way that is consistent with our history, our obligations as…
While Ireland faces a number of challenges, including deficits in our public services and infrastructure, unacceptable rates of poverty, and high national debt, it is important to remember that…
Some of the key challenges facing rural Ireland are an older population, higher poverty rates and greater distances from every day services compared to urban areas. If we want viable…
Last week, the Central Statistics Office published the results of its annual Pensions Survey. Among the results highlighted:
"only" six in 10 Irish workers have some form of private…
Since 1997, the definition of poverty and social exclusion used in the Government’s various Action Plans has been:
People are living in poverty if their income and resources (material,…
A major aspect of this report is on the focus of post-primary students’ outcomes, depending on whether they completed the Leaving Certificate Examination (LCE Completers) or left post-primary…
In November 2019, over half a million people, 563,410, were on waiting lists for outpatient procedures, according to data released by the National Treatment Purchase Fund (www.ntpf.ie). …
The European Commission published its European Semester Autumn Package on the 17th December 2019. Subtitled ‘Creating an economy that works for people and the planet’, the Annual…
Among the key recommendations of the report are:
the enactment of legislation underpinning the provision of homecare. This legislation must set out to provide a definition of homecare…
