Social Justice Ireland welcomed the Budget 2020 decision to increase the carbon tax from €20 per tonne to €26 per tonne. While we had called for a higher increase, of €10 per tonne, we…
As the DEASP announces some key design features of its proposed Automatic Enrolment pension scheme, our analysis suggests that Automatic Enrolment:
Represents poor value for money…
The Help to Buy Scheme was introduced in 2016 to provide support for first time buyers saving for a deposit on a newly built home, thereby also stimulating activity in a construction sector still…
The 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), 169 targets and over 230 indicators are designed to refocus efforts towards policies that directly help people and communities in the long run. They…
Budget 2020 allocated €837m to Ireland’s Official Development Assistance (ODA) programme; an increase of approximately €20m on the amount pledged in Budget 2019.
Approximately €550m was…
When assessing the change in people’s incomes following any Budget, it is important that tax changes be included as well as changes to basic social welfare payments. In our calculations we have…
Budget 2020 marks the fourth Budget of the current Government. Below, we track the cumulative impact of changes to income taxation and welfare over the Government’s four Budgets.
At the…
Today is International Day for the Eradication of Poverty. What did last week's Budget do to help eradicate poverty?
Before we answer that, it is worth reminding ourselves that one in…
This post originally appeared as an Opinion piece in the Irish Examiner on Thursday, 10th October 2019
What can you buy for €400,000? A five bedroom house…
You wait all year for Social Justice Ireland to release a podcast and two come along in one week! Our new podcast, Social Justice Matters, is now live on our website and on…
