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More Graduates and Higher Incomes - two new studies by the CSO

education

Two new studies - Higher Education Outcomes and Further Education Outcomes, both for graduation years 2010-2016, were published in July 2019 by the Central Statistics Office. These two…

Regional Ireland needs adequate investment to thrive

balanced regional investment

Over 3 million people live in rural Ireland as defined to be outside the administrative boundaries of the 5 main cities of Dublin, Waterford, Galway, Cork and Limerick. This is over 60 per cent of…

Forthcoming Budget should move to protect carers and people with disabilities

carersdisability

It may be clichéd to say that societies should be judged on how they treat their most vulnerable, but it is clichéd because it is largely true.

It must also be acknowledged that those who…

Budget 2020 must begin to address serious deficits in healthcare

healthcare

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. …

Time to bring back the tax on windfall gains from re-zoned land

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…

Welfare rates should increase by €9 per week in Budget 2020

social welfare

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.…

Time to reform Corporation Taxation and Subsidies

minimum corporate tax

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…

Launch of the SDG Hub to track Ireland’s progress towards the SDGs

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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…

What are we doing to prepare for the impact of automation on the regions?

Job Centre

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…

Ireland's changing demographics must be taken account of in Budget 2020

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…