Healthcare

Time to make progress on home care

Monday, 6 January 2020

Social Justice Ireland has consistently highlighted the need to strenghten the resourcing of home care and home care pacakges, and has consistently advocated for a statuatory basis to the right to home care. We welcome the recent publication of a Report on the Provision of Home Care Services by the Oireachtas Committee on Health.

Ageing in Ireland – A Measure of Success and why we can lead the way

Friday, 20 December 2019

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 supports we deem necessary. Dr. Diarmuid O'Shea (Irish Gerontological Society) presented on the theme of ageing as an opportunity to add healthy years to life at our Social Policy Conference and emphasised that health and social care expenditures for older people need to be seen as an investment, not a cost.

See the Videos and Papers from our 32nd Social Policy Conference - The Challenges of Success

Tuesday, 3 December 2019

Our 2019 Social Policy Conference was titled "The Challenges of Success" and looked at the appropriate policy responses to Ireland's changing demographics.
Click here to download slides and papers from the conference, watch videos of the presentations, see our handy summary graphics, or download the entire conference booklet for free.

Health for Everyone?

Monday, 25 November 2019

People should be assured of the required treatment and care in their times of illness or vulnerability. Yet in Ireland the healthcare system still struggles to provide an adequate service to everyone, and despite recent increases in resourcing we still have very high levels of unmet care needs.

No progress on disability in Budget 2020

Monday, 14 October 2019

Brexit is just this year’s excuse for failing to improve the lot of some of our society's most vulnerable. Despite some positives, those with a disability remain uniquely exposed to the risk of poverty.

Government Spending Review points to the need for increase investment in Home Care

Monday, 16 September 2019

The Government recently published the 2019 Spending Review of Carer’s Supports. The findings of this review point to a need to increase investment in community care, and home help and to provide a statutory entitlement to Home Care Packages if we are to meet potential future demand.

Forthcoming Budget should move to protect carers and people with disabilities

Monday, 12 August 2019

To support carers and people with disabilities to live fulfilling lives within their communities, Government must, in the forthcoming Budget, Introduce a cost of disability payment, increase investment in disability services, including respite and personal assistant services, increase the Domiciliary Care Allowance and expand the Free Travel scheme to include people in receipt of DCA, and increase the annual Carer's Support Grant.

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. Securing healthcare services and infrastructure is a key policy area that must be addressed urgently as part of Budget 2020.

Do we really value caring?

Wednesday, 10 July 2019

If we really value caring then we must begin to implement policies that support the men and women across the country who provide unpaid care every day and every week throughout the year.

Social Justice Ireland's 5 policy priorities for our newly elected MEPs

Wednesday, 29 May 2019

Social Justice Ireland wishes our newly elected MEPs every success. This is a pivotal time for the future of the European Union and MEPs play a key role in ensuring that social and environmental sustainability and the Sustainable Development Goals are at the heart of Europe's future. To this end we have formulated Five Key Policy Asks for our MEPs in conjunction with Trocaire. They are: The Elimination of Poverty The Championing of Climate Justice Policy Coherence on the SDGs Delivery on the European Pillar of Social Rights Supporting an international treaty on Business and Human Rights