Each year, on the day after the annual Budget is announced, Social Justice Ireland produces an analysis and critique of that Budget. Included in that document is an assessment of the direct…
The fundamental test for every Government is whether, when it leaves office, those with the least in our society are in a better position than when it entered office. The choices that Government has…
€27 per week is the increase required to core social welfare rates and pensions in the next Budget if current trends are maintained. This is simply to bring these payments back to where they were 15…
Ireland and the wider world is moving steadily towards the deadline of 2030 by which time we are supposed to have delivered on the Climate Strategy and the Sustainable Development Goals. Delivering…
The coming decade will be one of transformation as we try to meet our climate goals. This edition of National Social Monitor ‘Just Transition’ sets out some specific policies that Social Justice…
While the recent Government package of measures to address increases in the cost of living were welcome, they fail to deal with the reality of the unavoidable trade‐offs people living on inadequate…
As the Minister for Social Protection, Heather Humphreys T.D., announced last week, the commencement of auto-enrolment is about to happen. Having reviewed some key design features of the proposed…
The basic income pilot programme for artists, announced by Government today, is most welcome and is far more appropriate to deal with the income challenges of the 21st century than anything that is…
A recent article by Paolo Mauro, Deputy Director of the IMF's Fiscal Affairs Department, looks at putting moral perspectives into public finances. Mauro argues that policy decisions on taxation and…
The latest data from the CSO indicates that more than one third of people aged 20-69 do not have any pension support outside of State payments. With an increasing and ageing population, there are…
