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…
Ageing will be a dominant theme in the 21st century according to The United Nations World Economic and Social Survey. How we think about ageing can impact the policies we introduce and the…
Doras, the human rights organisation, this month published the findings of its report into Mount Trenchard Direct Provision Centre which likened conditions in the centre as like an open prison and…
GUI represents a significant investment on the part of the State, and it is as the study progresses and more waves of data are collected that its true value and contribution will be fully realised…
In the last decade, the poverty rates for single person households have risen notably, while they have fallen (or remained more-or-less static) for other household types. This is true for both…
At our 32nd annual Social Policy Conference last month, Mick Clifford (Irish Examiner, Irish Journalist of the Year 2016) interviewed Roddy Doyle, Booker Prize Winner in 1993, and one of Ireland's…
This article, by ALONE CEO Seán Moynihan, originally appeared as an opinion piece in the Irish Examiner on Tuesday November 26th 2019.It relates to a paper…
The Government's over-use of the so-called 'money message veto' is undemocratic and is a mis-use of the Constitution.
According to Article 17.2 of the Constitution, “no law shall be…
