Less than 24 hours after Ministers Donohoe and McGrath stood up in the Convention Centre to deliver the Budget speech, Social Justice Ireland published the first full and comprehensive…
As the first budget of the Government of the 33rd Dáil, Budget 2021 it will be a litmus test of how serious Government is taking its commitment to the creation of a new social contract, contained…
The present moment presents an opportunity that must not be missed. If Ireland is to succeed in addressing the challenges identified here, the pathway to doing so must be founded on consensus,…
Social Justice Ireland believes the July Jobs Stimulus contains some welcome elements which have the potential to support businesses, particularly small and medium enterprises, to absorb…
This paper makes proposals regarding the need to increase current social welfare rates and set a pathway to indexation to 27.5 per cent of average weekly earnings in Budget 2021. It also reviews…
Social Justice Ireland believes the draft Programme for Government (PfG), Our Shared Future, contains several policies and proposals that, if resourced and implemented, would represent a…
The MA in Social Justice and Public Policy is a two year part-time programme which gives students a unique opportunity to develop a theoretical framework and the deep capacity for analysis…
Poverty focus is an annual publication from Social Justice Ireland where we focus on the nature and experience of poverty in Ireland. Drawing on the available statistical evidence, we…
This briefing explores some options available to the new Government that would increase our overall tax take as a proportion of national income, broaden our tax base, and deliver a tax policy that…
