The European Parliament has passed a resolution calling on the European Commission to analyse the possibility of introducing a tax on financial transactions such as a Tobin Tax or a Robin Hood Tax…
Ireland could and should have a Universal Pension for everyone over 65. it could be paid for principally by standard rating the current tax-break for private pensions. More than 80% of benefit of…
Irish Government's Pensions Framework Deeply FlawedThe Government’s new pensions framework is deeply flawed. This can be seen, for example, in the fact that 47,000 older…
A proposal by the Minister for Finance, Brian Lenihan TD, to introduce a "new universal social contrtibution to be paid at a low rate on a wide base" provides major challenges to policy designers…
A new report from nef (the London-based New Economics Foundation) entitled 21 Hours proposes a much shorter ‘normal’ working week to address a range of urgent, interlinked problems…
Claims by European Commission Vice President Olli Rehn that Ireland’s bailout agreement is working have been challenged by Social Justice Ireland. There is clear evidence that the bailout…
A recently published book entitled The Spirit Level: Why More Equal Societies Almost Always Do Better, has produced the evidence that will no longer allow anybody to legitimately claim…
Following the EU Summit it is hard do work out what was decided or what the response of the Heads of Government will be to the huge response of the Social and Environmental organisations who…
The HSE's Service Plan for 2010 reveals the HSE's targets for hospital, community and primary care services. The failure of Government (not the HSE) to support the initiatives required to provide…
More than 23 million people in the EU were unemployed in May 2010 according to the latest statistics published by Eurostat equivalent to 10% of the labour force. Of these, 15.789 million were in…
