Some of the key challenges facing rural Ireland are an older population, higher poverty rates and greater distances from every day services compared to urban areas. If we want viable rural…
Last week, the Central Statistics Office published the results of its annual Pensions Survey. Among the results highlighted:
"only" six in 10 Irish workers have some form of private…
Since 1997, the definition of poverty and social exclusion used in the Government’s various Action Plans has been:
People are living in poverty if their income and resources (material,…
A major aspect of this report is on the focus of post-primary students’ outcomes, depending on whether they completed the Leaving Certificate Examination (LCE Completers) or left post-primary…
In November 2019, over half a million people, 563,410, were on waiting lists for outpatient procedures, according to data released by the National Treatment Purchase Fund (www.ntpf.ie). …
The European Commission published its European Semester Autumn Package on the 17th December 2019. Subtitled ‘Creating an economy that works for people and the planet’, the Annual Sustainable…
Among the key recommendations of the report are:
the enactment of legislation underpinning the provision of homecare. This legislation must set out to provide a definition of homecare…
Ageing will be a dominant theme in the 21st century according to The United Nations World Economic and Social Survey. How we think about ageing can impact the policies we introduce and the…
Doras, the human rights organisation, this month published the findings of its report into Mount Trenchard Direct Provision Centre which likened conditions in the centre as like an open prison and…
GUI represents a significant investment on the part of the State, and it is as the study progresses and more waves of data are collected that its true value and contribution will be fully realised…
