On Wednesday, 17th November 2021, Social Justice Ireland held our Annual Social Policy Conference. This year's Conference was on the theme 'Social Rights for All? Delivering the European…
Today, 19th November 2021, will mark Ireland's first Adult Safeguarding Day. According to Safeguarding Ireland, an organisation which promotes safeguarding of vulnerable adults to protect them from…
‘From the Crash to Covid and Beyond’ is the thirteenth publication in Social Justice Ireland’s European Research Series. The data in this report surveys trends between the financial crisis of 2008…
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…
Our pre-budget submission, 'Budget Choices 2022' contains detailed, fully-costed Budgetary packages across more than a dozen policy areas including health, housing, education, welfare, sustainability…
Our pre-budget submission ‘Budget Choices 2022’ outlines why expenditure will have to rise if the housing strategy, the climate change strategy and the revised national development plan are to…
People should be assured of the required treatment and care in their times of illness and vulnerability. The standard of care is dependent to a great degree on the resources made available, which in turn are dependent on the expectations of society.
Ireland has an increasingly ageing population and it is imperative, both from the perspective of the individual and the supporting structures, that ageing in place becomes the default approach.
‘Ireland and the Europe 2020 Strategy - A review of the social inclusion aspects of Ireland’s National Reform Programme’ covers three of the five headline targets established in the Europe 2020 Strategy and addressed in the Irish National Reform Programme, namely, employment, education and ‘poverty and social exclusion’. It is the latest in a series that since 2011 has tracked Ireland’s performance on achieving its own targets in the Europe 2020 Strategy.
Social Justice Ireland’s report ‘Ireland and the Europe 2020 Strategy - A review of the social inclusion aspects of Ireland’s National Reform Programme’ has found that overall, current trends in Irish public policy are running counter to the promotion of ‘inclusive growth,’ which is one of the three key priorities which underlie the Europe 2020 Strategy.
