Socioeconomy

One year on, Ireland is failing Ukraine

Friday, 24 February 2023
Ukraine asylum process

Ireland’s initial response to the Ukrainian crisis was hailed as almost exemplary, having taken what is arguably the first “human rights first” approach to international protection in our history.…

Ireland Ranks 8th out of 14 EU countries on UN Sustainable Development Goals

Monday, 20 February 2023
Sustainable Progress Index 2023

Ireland ranks 8th out of 14 comparable EU countries in this year’s Sustainable Progress Index, commissioned by Social Justice Ireland. The report entitled ‘Measuring Progress:…

Commission on Taxation and Welfare findings on Basic Income Fundamentally Flawed

Wednesday, 15 February 2023
Basic Income

Social Justice Ireland has challenged the Commission on Taxation and Welfare’s recommendation to reject Universal Basic Income.  The analysis underpinning this recommendation, contains…

Addressing Child Poverty could save the economy billions of euro

Wednesday, 18 January 2023
Persistent Poverty

The OECD launched its new Observatory on Social Mobility and Equal Opportunity late last year (2022), providing insights into social disadvantage, its causes and consequences as well as how to tackle…

Towards Wellbeing For All - Subjective Wellbeing

Wednesday, 4 January 2023
Subjective Wellbeing

The Programme for Government acknowledged that our “existing measures of economic performance fail to measure matters such as damage to the environment and voluntary work. They also overlook equality…

Towards Wellbeing For All - Time Use

Friday, 9 December 2022
time use

The Programme for Government acknowledged that our “existing measures of economic performance fail to measure matters such as damage to the environment and voluntary work. They also overlook equality…

Towards Wellbeing For All - Community, Connections and Participation

Wednesday, 7 December 2022
Connections

The Programme for Government acknowledged that our “existing measures of economic performance fail to measure matters such as damage to the environment and voluntary work. They also overlook equality…

National Social Monitor - Towards Wellbeing For All

Monday, 5 December 2022
Wellbeing cartoon

The Programme for Government 2020 commitment to the development of a well-being framework has been delivered on with the Second Report on Ireland’s Well-being Framework published in June 2022. As…

Government needs to get serious about its commitment to the Well-being Framework

Monday, 5 December 2022
Wellbeing

How is Ireland doing? In a country that still is unable to provide secure affordable housing, timely access to healthcare, support children with extra educational needs and has almost 595,000 people…

Towards Wellbeing For All - Conference Videos and Papers

Monday, 21 November 2022
Conference Flyer

On Wednesday, 16th November 2022, Social Justice Ireland held our Annual Social Policy Conference. This year's Conference was on the theme 'Towards Wellbeing for All'. We posed the question…