Budget 2020 does not contain the ‘bold and new decisions’ required to meet the ‘defining challenge’ of climate change.
There was no move to introduce a levy on single use coffee cups, to…
In our Budget Choices 2020 submission, Social Justice Ireland called for increased scrutiny of tax expenditures as part of the budgetary process. We regret that, at a time when the…
One in seven people in Ireland are renting in the private rented sector.
Rent Pressure Zones now exist in 44 locations, with 21 of those designated this year. Legislation passed in…
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…
