The latest data available from the National Treatment Purchase Fund (NTPF)(end of May 2022) shows that 12.5 per cent of the population, 1 in every 8 of us, was waiting for outpatient treatment.…
Government should ensure they do no harm to low-income households in Budget 2023 was the key message from Social Justice Ireland at the National Economic Dialogue 2022. Uncertainty once…
The latest inflation indices published by the CSO make stark reading. The Consumer Price Index (CPI) rose by 7.8 per cent in the year to May 2022, while the EU Harmonised Index of Consumer Prices…
The Tanaiste today announced a proposal to increase the minimum wage to a Living Wage, set at 60 per cent of the Median Wage to be phased in over the next four years.
While the…
Four key climate change indicators – greenhouse gas concentrations, sea level rise, ocean heat and ocean acidification – set new records in 2021 according to the World Meteorological Organisation…
According to figures from the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), in 2019, Ireland created 3.1 million tonnes of municipal waste and recycled only 37 per cent of it. Ireland also generated…
Women are significantly out-numbered by men in politics in Ireland. Gender quota legislation introduced prior to the 2016 General Elections resulted in a 6.5 percentage point increase in those…
According to the latest data from the CSO on the metred electricity consumption of data centres electricity consumption by data centres increased by 32% between 2020 and 2021. The increase…
New data from the CSO looking at the impact of inflation by household characteristics showed that the worst impact of the current cost of living crisis was being felt by low-income households,…
Ireland is a low tax country with ever-increasing demands on resources. We saw during the pandemic the impact of under-investment in housing, healthcare, education, childcare, and recreational…
