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Will Budget 2020 deliver on Retrofitting?

Monday, 26 August 2019

The deep retrofitting pilot is administered by the SEAI and was launched by the Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment in 2017 with a budget of approximately €21m. It was…

Renewable Economies – The potential for circular and bio-economies in Ireland

Friday, 23 August 2019

The shift to a circular economy is labour intensive, focussing on repair, recycling, research and development, regenerating natural capital, and preserving and enhancing land, oceans, forests and…

860,000 people experienced discrimination in Ireland – A CSO Report finds

Wednesday, 21 August 2019

According to the CSO, the highest rates of discrimination were reported by people who identify as LGBTQI+ (33.2%), followed by people from non-white ethnic backgrounds (33.1%), the unemployed (30.…

Budget 2020 must put sustainability at the top of the agenda

Monday, 19 August 2019

Sustainable development which gives equal consideration to the environment, society and the economy is key to protecting our future. With this in mind, Social Justice Ireland, in our…

More Graduates and Higher Incomes - two new studies by the CSO

Friday, 16 August 2019

Two new studies - Higher Education Outcomes and Further Education Outcomes, both for graduation years 2010-2016, were published in July 2019 by the Central Statistics Office. These two…

Regional Ireland needs adequate investment to thrive

Wednesday, 14 August 2019

Over 3 million people live in rural Ireland as defined to be outside the administrative boundaries of the 5 main cities of Dublin, Waterford, Galway, Cork and Limerick. This is over 60 per cent of…

Forthcoming Budget should move to protect carers and people with disabilities

Monday, 12 August 2019

It may be clichéd to say that societies should be judged on how they treat their most vulnerable, but it is clichéd because it is largely true.

It must also be acknowledged that those who…

Budget 2020 must begin to address serious deficits in healthcare

Friday, 9 August 2019

Healthcare services are fundamental to wellbeing - important in themselves and important to economic success in a range of ways, including improving work participation and productivity. …

Time to bring back the tax on windfall gains from re-zoned land

Wednesday, 7 August 2019

The vast profits made by property speculators on the rezoning of land by local authorities was a particularly undesirable feature of the economic boom during the 2000s. Enormous amounts of money…

Welfare rates should increase by €9 per week in Budget 2020

Monday, 5 August 2019

Adequate social welfare payments are required to prevent and address poverty. Without the social welfare system 43.8 per cent of the Irish population would have been living in poverty in 2017.…