Healthcare services are fundamental to wellbeing - important in themselves and important to economic success in a range of ways, including improving work participation and productivity. …
The vast profits made by property speculators on the rezoning of land by local authorities was a particularly undesirable feature of the economic boom during the 2000s. Enormous amounts of money…
Adequate social welfare payments are required to prevent and address poverty. Without the social welfare system 43.8 per cent of the Irish population would have been living in poverty in 2017.…
Budget 2020 is the ideal time to reform how Ireland does corporate taxation. At present, too many firms get away with paying low effective rates or availing of overly generous subsidies or tax…
What are the Sustainable Development Goals?
The Global Goals for Sustainable Development were adopted at the UN General Assembly on 25th September 2015 and came into effect…
A report by the Spatial and Regional Economics Research Centre in UCC ‘Automation and Irish Towns: Who’s Most at Risk’ found that two out of every five jobs in Ireland are at high risk of…
Social Justice Ireland is seriously concerned that Government is not planning sufficiently for the changes that Ireland’s ageing population will bring. Over the coming decades there will…
Possible changes to income taxation levels have been highlighted as a potential policy reform in Budget 2020. Social Justice Ireland believes that the best reform to the income taxation…
While Ireland faces a number of challenges, including deficits in our public services and infrastructure, unacceptable rates of poverty, and high levels of national debt, it is important to…
The new National Social Enterprise Policy contains, for the first time, a definition of Social Enterprise for Ireland. This definition states:
A Social Enterprise is an enterprise…
