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Social Justice Ireland Briefing for meeting with Troika - October 22, 2012 - FULL TEXT

Monday, 22 October 2012

Social Justice Ireland met the IMF/ECB/EC 'troika' on Monday, October 17, 2011. We presented them with a Briefing document setting out a fully-costed set of proposals which would see the…

IMF Article IV Country Report for Ireland (September 2012) and 7th Quarterly

Wednesday, 10 October 2012

In September 2012, the IMF published its Article IV Country Report for Ireland as well as its Seventh Quarterly Review under the Bailout Agreement. 

The staff report for the 2012 Article IV…

The Common Good

Wednesday, 10 October 2012

The common good consists primarily of having the social systems, institutions and environments on which all depend, work in a manner that benefits all people simultaneously and in solidarity. …

Human Dignity and Human Rights

Wednesday, 10 October 2012

Human rights are the rights of all persons so that each person is not only a right-holder but also has duties to all other persons to respect and promote their rights.  Thus there is a sharing of…

Rate of underemployed part-time work highest in Ireland

Saturday, 6 October 2012

Among the EU Member States in 2011, underemployed part-time work was highest in Ireland (6.3 % of the labour force) according to the latest EU Employment and Social Situation…

Child Benefit should not be reduced or targeted in Budget 2013

Monday, 1 October 2012

Child Benefit should not be reduced. There are other choices Government could make that would be fairer and more equitable. Government should stop protecting the rich at the expense of the rest of…

Budget 2013 - Social Justice Ireland launches Policy Briefing on Budget 2013

Sunday, 30 September 2012

Social Justice Ireland's Policy Briefing on 'Budget Choices 2013' will be published on Monday, October 1, 2012. The full text of the Briefing will be available here at 11.15am on Monday…

NERI publishes proposals for 2013 Budget

Friday, 28 September 2012

In the latest edition of its publication ‘Quarterly Economic Observer’, NERI (the Nevin Economic Research Institute) focuses on the specific details of an alternative budgetary strategy…

Scapegoating of unemployed people by European Commission indefensible

Wednesday, 26 September 2012

In its draft 7th review of Ireland the European Commission is ignoring the key issue that jobs are not being created on the scale required and that the bailout process is failing to address both…

Ireland has one of the highest rates of young people not in employment, education or training in Europe

Wednesday, 26 September 2012

A new report by Eurofound shows how Ireland has one of the highest rates of NEETS in Europe at 22%. Greece has the highest at 35.9%, Bulgaria 24.6% AND Spain has 21.1%.  NEETS are young people…