Fairness must be at the centre of Budget 2026. We are wealthier than at any time in our history, and yet almost 630,000 people are living below the poverty line, 190,000 of whom are children. Over…
Budget Choices 2026 contains detailed, fully-costed Budgetary packages across more than a dozen policy areas including health, housing, education, welfare, sustainability and more; it also contains a…
Social Welfare Rates: Budget 2026 outlines what maintaining adequate levels of social welfare rates in a budgetary context entails, and outlines the case for benchmarking core social welfare rates to…
In addition to tracking the post-Budget income levels of different households, Social Justice Ireland is also focused on assessing how the income divides between different household types…
Budget 2025 marked the fifth and final Budget of the coalition Government that held office from 2020-2025. The first two of these were presented in the context of the challenging Covid-19 pandemic (…
Budget 2025, announced in October 2024, was the final budget of the outgoing coalition Government and was presented as some aspects of the cost-of-living crisis continued to challenge households…
'Tracking the Distributive Effects of Budget Policy' complements our analysis of Budget 2025. It also provides further assessments of recent distributive choices:a distributive analysis of all the…
Budget 2025 marked the fifth and final Budget of the coalition Government that held office from 2020-2025. This year’s edition of our analysis of the distributive effects of budget policy offers an…
Less than 24 hours after Budget 2025 was announced, Social Justice Ireland produced the first comprehensive analysis of the Budget - taxation, welfare, education, housing and more. Less…
Budget 2025 is cold comfort for the hundreds of thousands of people who’ve been frozen out of Ireland’s economic recovery. The Government's decision to repeat those measures from the past two budgets…
