Core social welfare rates must increase by €25 in Budget 2024, and Government must commit to benchmarking social welfare rates to average weekly earnings if it is to have any impact on reducing…
Social Welfare Rates: Budget 2024 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…
Despite progress on the issue over the past two decades, there is still considerable poverty in Ireland. Driven by increases in social welfare payments, particularly payments to the unemployed, the…
In this socio-economic review for 2023 Social Justice Ireland presents a detailed analysis of a range of key matters which are central to social justice; a vision of…
Ireland’s social contract is broken yet we have the resources and the capacity to deliver a new social contract. Now is the time for political will and ambition to deliver real and impactful change…
New figures from Eurostat show that 6 per cent of EU youth are classed as severely materially and socially deprived. In 2021, across the EU, the social deprivation rate for the population as a whole…
Today, 8th March 2023, is International Women's Day. Eurostat have released a number of articles examining gender gaps in employment and pay across the EU. Today, 8th March 2023, is…
In advance of Budget 2023, Social Justice Ireland and others called for an increase of €20 per week to core social welfare rates. This was considered "too expensive" by some…
671,183people in Ireland are living in poverty, of which 188,602are children.143,633 older people are living in poverty, an increase of over 55,000 since 2021.133,…
Social Justice Ireland is calling for an audit of recent initiatives on child poverty by the Child Poverty and Wellbeing Unit in the Department of the Taoiseach to assess their overall…
