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Full text of the EU/IMF Programme Documents

Wednesday, 1 December 2010

Full text of the EU/IMF Programme Documents can be accessed here

Details of Bailout programme measures: fiscal, structural reforms and bank measures

Wednesday, 1 December 2010

Fiscal Measures in the Programme 

Taxation 

Lowering of personal income tax bands and credits or equivalent measures 

A reduction in pension tax relief and pension related…

The EU Commission, the IMF and the Irish Government continue to insult Ireland's poor and vulnerable people

Monday, 29 November 2010

The insult to Ireland’s poor and vulnerable people originally perpetrated by EU Commissioner for Economic and Monitory Affairs, Mr Olli Rehn (when he refused to meet representatives of these…

Agreement with EU, ECB and IMF leaves Ireland's poorest people paying for debts accumulated by banking gamblers

Sunday, 28 November 2010

Ireland's negotiations with the European Commission, the ECB and the IMF were concluded on Sunday, November 28, 2010.  The bottom line is that Ireland's tax-payers, poor people and vulnerable…

UN Climate Change Conference in Cancun, Mexico - from Sean McDonagh - December 15, 2010

Saturday, 27 November 2010

The UN Climate Change Conference in Cancun, Mexico, concluded on December 11, 2010. Fr Sean McDonagh, SSC, attended the conference.  Below are his final reflections on the agreement reached at…

Nobel Laureate's article on 'Eating the Irish' - New York Times November 26, 2010

Friday, 26 November 2010

November 25, 2010 The New York Times 

Eating the Irish

By PAUL KRUGMAN (Nobel laureate in economics 2008)

What we need now is another Jonathan…

Social Justice Ireland asks Government to clarify how €3bn welfare increases are to be achieved by 2014

Thursday, 25 November 2010

Social Justice Ireland’s analysis of the Government’s National Plan for Recovery 2011-2014 shows that social welfare rates are set to fall by between €40 and €62 a week for a single person by 2014…

National Recovery Plan 2011-2014 - Full text

Wednesday, 24 November 2010

This Plan provides a blueprint for a return to sustainable growth in our economy. It sets out in detail 

the measures that will be taken to put our public finances in order. It identifies…

National Recovery Plan 2011-2014- Comments

Wednesday, 24 November 2010
Distribution of the 'hit' in Ireland's bailout confirms the EU, the IMF and the Irish Government favour the rich and powerful over the poor and the ordinary taxpayer

Social Justice Ireland has…

National Recovery Plan 2011-2014- Social Justice Ireland Questions Government

Wednesday, 24 November 2010
Social Justice Ireland asks Government to clarify how €3bn welfare decreases are to be achieved by 2014

Social Justice Ireland’s analysis of the Government’s National Plan for Recovery 2011-2014…