On the face of things, recent falls in long-term unemployment is one of the big good-news stories of the Irish economic recovery. According to the latest numbers from the Central Statistics Office…
Support for people to remain in their own homes is a key and appropriate policy objective and coincides with the wishes of most older people. A well-developed, co-ordinated and integrated approach…
Social Justice Ireland welcomes the operation of the Employment (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act, 2018 as it moves Ireland towards progress both under the Sustainable Development Goals (SDG…
Towards the end of January, the Central Bank published its Quarterly Economic Bulletin suggesting that 'full employment' in Ireland was coming back into view.
There is no economic…
Social Justice Ireland welcomes the publication of ‘A Better World: Ireland’s Policy for International Development’, which outlines the Government’s commitment to reaching the UN…
Last week the Department of Housing, Planning and Local Government published a breakdown of Social Housing Output by local authority area. This showed that 45% of all local authorities…
How a country organises and manages stakeholder involvement is a key indicator of sustainability. Countries who perform well in terms of sustainability and climate policy also perform well…
The index publication comes in the same week as UN World Social Justice Day and is a timely reminder that Social Justice is a multi-faceted and multi-departmental issue that must be measured if it…
The OECD has called skills ‘the new global currency of 21st Century economies’. By providing workers with increased skills, countries can ensure that globalisation translates into job…
The first set of preliminary results have been released from Finland’s so-called Basic Income experiment.
We say “so-called” because while the payments bore some of the hallmarks of Basic…
