Covid-19 induced school closures could reverse much of the progress made addressing educational disadvantage. It will widen the learning gap between rich and poor, impose long-term losses of…
The Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage met with the High Level Homelessness Taskforce in April of this year to discuss the development of the Youth Homelessness Strategy. The High…
The latest NESC report, Digital Inclusion in Ireland: Connectivity, Devices & Skills, focuses on Digital Inclusion - what it is and why it's important. This Report provides key…
The EESC report “Evaluation on the CAP's impact on territorial development of rural areas” is based on consultations with civil society organisations representing employers,…
Social Justice Ireland addressed the Select Committee on Budgetary Oversight on four key priority areas for Budget 2022; social welfare and income adequacy, taxation, housing and…
The scale of the Economic Recovery Plan announced today falls short of what is required on housing, climate change, inequality and healthcare. As we slowly emerge from public health restrictions…
The objective of the proposed European Child Guarantee is to prevent and combat social exclusion by guaranteeing the access of children in need to a set of key services. The European Pillar of…
Our Employment Monitor published this week, analyses CSO Labour Force Survey data and finds that unemployment figures could rise dramatically post pandemic. Many of the policies proposed in light…
Ireland has a lot of work to do to meet our 2030 targets. The Energy Charter Treaty (the Treaty) could hamper our progress even further. In 2018, Ireland was the first country in the world to…
Unemployment could exceed 390,000 according to the latest Social Justice Ireland Employment Monitor. That’s an unemployment rate of 16.1 per cent of the labour force. This would be the highest…
