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Primary Care

Health for Everyone?

25th November 2019

People should be assured of the required treatment and care in their times of illness or vulnerability.  Yet in Ireland the healthcare system still struggles to provide an adequate service to everyone, and despite recent increases in resourcing we still have very high levels of unmet care needs.  

Time to create a statutory basis for Home Care

6th March 2019

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 key component of this is a statutory basis for home care packages.

Government policy failing to tackle causes - National Social Monitor Winter Edition

3rd December 2018

700,000 on healthcare waiting lists, 500,000 homes without broadband, over 11,000 people homeless – a result of Government policy failing to tackle causes - Social Justice Ireland publishes National Social Monitor Winter 2018.

Budget 2018 - modest progress but lacking strategy and ambition

11th October 2017

To download our Budget 2018 Response Document click here.

To view our Budget 2018 Response webinar click here.

Budget 2018 sees modest improvements for some but fails to get to grips with the scale of the crises needing to be addressed.

Government should spend €1bn fiscal space on infrastructure

18th July 2016

Government should spend €1bn fiscal space on infrastructure to improve productivity and competitiveness in Budget 2017.  This would be a far better use of resources than giving tax cuts as incentives to attract ‘Brexit refugees’ from the City of London to Dublin.  Investment is crucial to addressing Ireland’s infrastructure deficits and to delivering a vibrant, productive, competitive and sustainable economy and a just society.  Investment is the cornerstone of our policy briefing Budget Choices 2017.

Healthcare policy must prioritise Primary Care Teams, community supports and social care infrastructure

6th June 2011

Ending the ongoing spiral of healthcare crises in Ireland requires that Primary Care Teams (PCTs) and the linked community supports and social care infrastructure must be put at the centre of healthcare policy and resourced adequately according to Social Justice Ireland’s latest Policy Briefing.