Less than 24 hours after Budget 2023 was announced, Social Justice Ireland produce the first comprehensive analysis of the Budget - the winners, the losers and what needs to happen…
The Government’s Budget 2023 widened the rich/poor gap by €199 next year. Despite the welcome temporary measures to address the cost of living and energy crisis, in the long run this Budget…
In October 2020, the Irish Government published its first paper on the introduction of a Wellbeing Framework and, since then, has been working on what should be included to measure how well Ireland…
A core pillar of Social Justice Ireland’s Social Contract, is the objective of providing ‘Decent Services and Infrastructure’. An expanded public sector, providing increased public…
An expanded public sector, providing increased public services, is essential in addressing cost of living increases. Making healthcare, housing, public transport, childcare and education more…
According to the National Travel Survey 2019, 73.7 per cent of all journeys taken in 2019 were by private car (as driver or passenger), whereas public transport accounted for just 4.8 per cent of all…
Financial services were becoming increasingly digital, with more and more daily, everyday transactions moving on-line or becoming cashless even before the Covid-19 pandemic. The resulting…
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…
On the 28th March 2022, Minister for Justice Helen McEntee T.D. published Justice Plan 2022. This plan sets out 159 actions that build upon Justice Plan 2021 and work towards delivering a justice…
