Investment in the regions is vital to a balanced and fair post-Covid recovery. Rural Ireland faces many challenges, including an older population, higher rates of part-time employment, lower…
The provision of adequate and appropriate accommodation must be a key element of delivering a Fairer Recovery. As the recovery from the Covid-19 crisis continues, it is becoming more and more…
The experience of the last decade has highlighted the centrality of taxation in budget deliberations and to policy development. Taxation plays a key role in shaping Irish society through funding…
Budget 2022 offers an opportunity for Government to reform some aspects of the current taxation system in the interests of enhancing fairness and sustainability. Budget 2022 is an opportunity to…
Statistics produced by Safe Ireland indicate that during, September to December 2020, an average of 2,018 women and 550 children received support from a domestic, sexual and gender-based violence…
Though Ireland faces a number of significant challenges, it is important to remember that those in much poorer countries face a far worse situation.
Budget 2021 allocated €867m in overseas…
Government must act urgently on the White Paper on the Elimination of Direct Provision, starting with Budget 2022. As of May 2020, there were 7,700 people living in the Direct Provision system…
As of February 2021, over 178 countries, of which Ireland is one, were party to the UN Trafficking in Persons Protocol. The Protocol defines trafficking in persons to
“mean the recruitment…
The Programme for Government committed to the introduction of a universal basic income pilot within the lifetime of the Government. The Report of the Arts and Culture Recovery Taskforce relied on…
Ireland has an increasingly ageing population and it is imperative, both from the perspective of the individual and the supporting structures, that ageing in place becomes the default approach.…
