Income Distribution

Time to introduce a REAL living wage

Tuesday, 14 June 2022
Living Wage

The Tanaiste today announced a proposal to increase the minimum wage to a Living Wage, set at 60 per cent of the Median Wage to be phased in over the next four years. While the change is not expected…

Targeted Measures for Low Income Households needed to tackle Cost of Living Crisis

Friday, 3 June 2022
Cash Money

New data from the CSO looking at the impact of inflation by household characteristics showed that the worst impact of the current cost of living crisis was being felt by low-income households,…

More than 580,000 people are still living in poverty in Ireland, of which 164,000 are children

Friday, 6 May 2022
SILC 2021

581,334people in Ireland are living in poverty, of which 163,936are children.93,013 people living in poverty are in employment - the “working poor”.691,587 people…

Tracking Distributive Effects of Budget Policy - 2022

Tuesday, 3 May 2022
Distributive Effects Budget 2022

Each year, on the day after the annual Budget is announced, Social Justice Ireland produces an analysis and critique of that Budget. Included in that document is an assessment of the direct…

Government Budgets failing low income households

Tuesday, 3 May 2022
Empty Pockets

The fundamental test for every Government is whether, when it leaves office, those with the least in our society are in a better position than when it entered office. The choices that Government has…

Core social welfare rates need to rise by almost €30 per week to deal with cost of living crisis

Tuesday, 19 April 2022
Adequate social welfare payment

€27 per week is the increase required to core social welfare rates and pensions in the next Budget if current trends are maintained. This is simply to bring these payments back to where they were 15…

Ireland set to remain European Laggard without increased Social Investment in a Just Transition

Tuesday, 12 April 2022
Social Infrastructure

Ireland and the wider world is moving steadily towards the deadline of 2030 by which time we are supposed to have delivered on the Climate Strategy and the Sustainable Development Goals. Delivering…

National Social Monitor - Just Transition

Tuesday, 12 April 2022
Social Infrastructure

The coming decade will be one of transformation as we try to meet our climate goals. This edition of National Social Monitor ‘Just Transition’ sets out some specific policies that Social Justice…

The current cost of living crisis is an issue of adequate income

Friday, 8 April 2022
Budget

While the recent Government package of measures to address increases in the cost of living were welcome, they fail to deal with the reality of the unavoidable trade‐offs people living on inadequate…

Auto-Enrolment a bad idea about to happen

Wednesday, 6 April 2022
Pension Pot

As the Minister for Social Protection, Heather Humphreys T.D., announced last week, the commencement of auto-enrolment is about to happen. Having reviewed some key design features of the proposed…