Budget 2022 allocated €1.044bn to Ireland’s Official Development Assistance (ODA) programme; an increase of €140m overall including an increase of €33.9m in the allocation from the Department of…
While Budget 2022 contains some welcome measures on the environment it could have been more ambitious in implementing the policies and reforms required to meet our climate targets.Social Justice…
Budget 2022 marks the second Budget of the current Government. On this page we track the cumulative impact of changes to income taxation and welfare over the Government’s two Budgets.At the outset it…
Housing for All commits to “working towards” eliminating homelessness by 2030 while simultaneously committing to increase resources for emergency homeless accommodation. A commitment to actually…
Central to a thorough understanding of income taxation in Ireland are effective tax rates. These rates are calculated by comparing the total amount of income tax a person pays with their pre-tax…
When assessing the change in people’s incomes following any Budget, it is important that tax changes be included as well as changes to basic welfare payments. In our calculations we have not included…
The Government’s Housing for All plan preceded Budget 2022. Our analysis of this plan shows that it fails to recognise the true scale of the housing crisis and Budget 2022 seems to fall even …
As the Minister for Finance acknowledged in his Budget speech, the past 19 months has been a period of major challenge for the healthcare system with staff, facilities and patients put under enormous…
Ireland, like all other European countries and most other developed world states, has relied on large scale borrowing to cope with the reduction in tax revenue and pay for the various welfare and…
Appropriate and sufficient investment is vital to a balanced and fair post-Covid recovery where no-one is left behind. Unfortunately Budget 2022 has failed to deliver the necessary investment in…
