Welfare payments target those most in need within Irish society. They also play a central role in alleviating poverty. According to the latest CSO Poverty figures, without the social welfare system…
Budget 2024 includes a range of measures to address the ongoing cost of living crisis. Structurally, it follows a similar path to that adopted last year, in Budget 2023, with a mixture of immediate…
Since the first energy credit in April 2022 Government has made a series of policy decisions in response to the cost of living crisis. Here we bring together the impact of all changes since then.…
Budget 2024 follows the path of Budget 2023, with Government repeating last year’s mistakes. Rather than spending this year’s surplus to support those who most need it, for whom it would have…
Less than 24 hours after Budget 2024 was announced, Social Justice Ireland produce the first comprehensive analysis of the Budget - the winners, the losers and what needs to happen…
As the Minister for Finance prepares to present Budget 2024, another ‘cost of living budget’, to the Oireachtas tomorrow, it is worth look back at the impact that cost of living measures that…
Social Justice Ireland welcomed the establishment of a Child Poverty and Well-Being Office in the Department of the Taoiseach and its programme plan for child wellbeing. Given the…
The recent increased political focus on child poverty is welcome and overdue. If Government wants to deliver on Child Poverty and Wellbeing commitments in Budget 2024 then it must make income…
New figures on caring in Ireland from Census 2022 data were published by the Central Statistics Office (CSO) earlier this week, on Thursday 28th September. Census 2022 "sought to identify people…
