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…
The first pillar of Rebuilding Ireland was to Address Homelessness. The Key Objective of this pillar was to
Provide early solutions to address the unacceptable level of families…
Early Childhood Care and Education
The most striking feature of investment in education in Ireland relative to other OECD countries is its under-investment in early…
While it is as yet unknown which parties will eventually form the Government of the 33rd Dáil, of more concern to Social Justice Ireland is the content of the Programme for Government…
Chart 1 shows the pro-cyclical nature of central government capital expenditure allocations to the Department of Housing, Planning and Local Government since 1994. Expenditure increased…
Ireland faces several significant challenges in the coming decades. Among the biggest are those posed by demographic changes, social inequality – in housing and healthcare in particular – and…
Last week, the Central Statistics Office (CSO) released the most recent Labour Force Survey (Q4, 2019). The survey is the main source of data on employment in Ireland and is an excellent resouce…
According to the Safeguarding Ireland / Red C Place of Care survey, just 20% of all adults aged 18+ have given some consideration to where they would like to be cared for. When…
