Nearly 2 billion people still lack access to safe drinking water. Despite the fact that the Millennium Development Goal (MDG) on water was reached in 2010 the scale of the challenge the world…
Leaders of the world’s largest economies have backed what they call “an ambitious and comprehensive” plan to crack down on multinationals that shift profits into low tax countries.
The G20 …
The IMF has just published the 8th Review and Country Report on Ireland. The report outlines the substantial challenges facing Ireland in 2013. Growth projections for our trading partners have…
What has austerity done for us?
That was the question posed on RTE Radio One's Drivetime programme on Friday, July 26, 2013. Philip Boucher-Hayes reprises the budgets since 2008. He also…
A recently published IMF working paper ‘The Distributional Effects of Fiscal Consolidation’ shows that austerity does not work and will not work for Ireland.
The findings of the paper…
Government should increase basic social welfare rates and PAYE tax credits by €5 in Budget 2014
This is essential because the value of basic social welfare payments has fallen when…
The announcement by the Central Statistics Office (CSO) that Ireland is in recession confirms Social Justice Ireland's claims in its recently published Policy Briefing on Budget Choices…
There has been some confusion and misrepresentation of Social Justice Ireland’s position on income tax in the media.
Here's the real story. As part of its Policy Briefing…
Social Justice Ireland Policy Briefing on Budget Choices 2014 sets out a fully-costed set of proposals.
BUDGET 2014 should end cuts, meet borrowing target and introduce a minimum…
Social Justice Ireland Policy Briefing on Budget 2014 sets out a fully-costed set of proposals.
It argues that:
There should be no more cuts in expenditure in…
