A new report from the Central Statistics Office (CSO), 'Vacant Dwelling Indicators based on Metered Electricity Consumption 2021' examines "active network connections with a suitably low level of…
Locked Out of the Market is a quarterly report published by the Simon Communities of Ireland based on a snapshot survey conducted over three consecutive days. This latest version published in January…
The Programme for Government acknowledged that our “existing measures of economic performance fail to measure matters such as damage to the environment and voluntary work. They also overlook equality…
The Programme for Government 2020 commitment to the development of a well-being framework has been delivered on with the Second Report on Ireland’s Well-being Framework published in June 2022. As…
How is Ireland doing? In a country that still is unable to provide secure affordable housing, timely access to healthcare, support children with extra educational needs and has almost 595,000 people…
This Saturday, 3rd December 2022, is International Day of Persons with Disabilities. In this article we look at the interaction between disability and housing. Housing TenureChart 1 below shows the…
On Wednesday, 16th November 2022, Social Justice Ireland held our Annual Social Policy Conference. This year's Conference was on the theme 'Towards Wellbeing for All'. We posed the question…
The latest CSO data on new dwelling completions indicates that 7,544 new dwellings were completed in Q3 2022, an increase of 62.5 per cent on Q3 2021 and a decrease of 74 on the previous quarter. The…
The Central Bank last week announced that they were changing the Macroprudential Rules with effect from 1st November 2022. This means that the income limits for First Time Buyers (FTB) will increase…
Budget 2023 introduced a €500 tax relief for renters for years 2022 and 2023. Standardised average rents in new tenancies in Q1 2022 were €1,460 per month nationally, and €2,015 in Dublin. A full-…
