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Census study highlights worrying trends and policy challenges

Friday, 16 June 2017

The CSO recently published part 2 in a series of summary results from Census 2016 covering areas such as employment, socio-economic groups, skills, labour force participation and health. This…

Social Justice Ireland calls for EU-wide Basic Income system

Wednesday, 7 June 2017

Social Justice Ireland has called for the introduction of an EU-wide Basic Income system. Speaking at a consultation on the Future of Europe conducted by the European Economic and Social…

Invitation to present to UN Expert Group

Tuesday, 6 June 2017

Sean Healy, Director of Social Justice Ireland, was invited by the United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs to be part of an Expert Group Meeting on “Strategies for…

Future of Healthcare

Tuesday, 30 May 2017

Social Justice Ireland welcomes the publication of the Committee on the future of Healthcare Report. In particular we welcome the recognition that Ireland’s health system should be built…

Country Specific Recommendations for Ireland 2017

Tuesday, 23 May 2017

The European Commission has just published the 2017 Country Specific Recommendations for Ireland, accompanied by an assessment of Ireland's National Reform Programme and 2017 Stability Programme.…

Despite impressive jobs growth, regional variations in employment trends show economic growth is not benefiting all parts of the country equally

Tuesday, 9 May 2017

Regional variations in employment trends point to imbalanced economic growth that is not benefiting all parts of the country equally. This is one of the key findings from the latest Employment…

Ireland needs a new and radical social contract

Tuesday, 18 April 2017

Ireland’s social contract is broken. The legitimate expectations of citizens are not being met. This is most obvious in areas such as housing and homelessness, a two-tier healthcare system, an…

Government should review Ireland’s tax policy priorities and raise the overall tax take

Tuesday, 4 April 2017

As Ireland faces into a very new international reality on taxation it is essential that tax policy priorities be adjusted to ensure three outcomes: (i) that the overall tax-take is increased…

Ireland not making progress in meeting Europe 2020 Targets

Monday, 13 March 2017

Ireland is not making progress towards meeting some of its Europe 2020 Targets. This is one of the main findings of Social Justice Ireland's latest report, Ireland and the Europe…

Ireland ranked 11th of EU-15 countries in Sustainable Progress Index

Monday, 20 February 2017

Ireland is making poor progress when ranked against the other 14 countries in the EU-15. The new Sustainable Progress Index, published by Social Justice Ireland to mark UN World Social…