Current pandemic exacerbating existing problems in Ireland’s health care system
COVID-19 is placing unprecedented pressure on our healthcare system. The emergency…
The Central Statistics Office (CSO) today published the Live Register and Monthly Unemployment Estimates showing a combined total of 513,350 for those on the Live Register and those in receipt of…
Ireland and much of the rest of the world is facing into a major economic recession, perhaps even a depression, as a result of the coronavirus pandemic. Stringent but essential measures being…
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…
