Lobbying Records (Page 1 of 2)
Social Justice Ireland
2018-01-20
Intent: To encourage Government to make integrated policy decisions which are sustainable from an economic, environmental and social perspective.
Details: National Social Monitor: A snapshot on how Ireland is performing in a range of areas including Healthcare, Education, Housing, Public Participation and Communities, Income Distribution, Taxation, Work and Job Creation, Rural Development, Environment, Sustainability and Global Challenges. The full te, ...
Officials: Aidan O'Driscoll, Derek Moran, Fergal Lynch, John McCarthy, Niall Burgess, Niamh O’Donoghue, Robert Watt, Orlaigh Quinn, ...
Methods: National Social Monitor: A snapshot on how Ireland is performing in a range of areas including Healthcare, Education, Housing, Public Participation and Communities, Income Distribution, Taxation, Work and Job Creation, Rural Development, Environment, Sustainability and Global Challenges. The full text is available at https://www.socialjustice.ie/content/publications/national-social-monitor-2017 - Email
Social Justice Ireland
2018-01-20
Intent: To encourage Government to make fair choices in taxation changes in Budget 2018. Details at https://www.socialjustice.ie/content/policy-issues/government-income-tax-proposals-are-unjust-and-unfair
Details: Taxation Briefing: Assessing the fairness of some taxation options in Budget 2018
Officials: Aidan O'Driscoll, Derek Moran, Fergal Lynch, John McCarthy, Niall Burgess, Niamh O’Donoghue, Robert Watt, Orlaigh Quinn, ...
Methods: Taxation Briefing on impact on different taxation options in Budget 2018. Available at https://www.socialjustice.ie/content/policy-issues/government-income-tax-proposals-are-unjust-and-unfair - Email
Social Justice Ireland
2018-01-20
Intent: Policy changes to address issues of low pay, precarious employment, the 'working poor' and low employment rates for people with disabilities. Suggested solutions include refundable tax credits, aligning the National Minimum Wage with the Living Wage, eliminating disincentives for people with disabilities to take up employment and introducing legislation to ban zero hours contracts and strengthen rights for workers on insecure contracts
Details: Employment and Unemployment: Briefings on Ireland's current employment situation including a focus on low pay, precarious employment and disability issues. Available at https://www.socialjustice.ie/content/publications/quarterly-employment-monitor-december-2017 and https://www.socialjustice.ie/con, ...
Officials: Aidan O'Driscoll, Derek Moran, Fergal Lynch, John McCarthy, Niall Burgess, Niamh O’Donoghue, Robert Watt, Orlaigh Quinn, ...
Methods: Briefings on Employment Matters https://www.socialjustice.ie/content/publications/quarterly-employment-monitor-december-2017 and https://www.socialjustice.ie/content/publications/social-justice-ireland-employment-monitor-issue-5 - Email
Social Justice Ireland
2018-01-20
Intent: To inform policy makers of the implications of Budget 2018 for a more just and fairer Ireland, and to highlight alternative policy choices which were available
Details: Budget 2018 Analysis: Social Justice Ireland's annual analysis of the Budget - links to the document and related videos can be found on https://www.socialjustice.ie/content/budget/2018
Officials: Aidan O'Driscoll, Derek Moran, Fergal Lynch, John McCarthy, Niall Burgess, Niamh O’Donoghue, Robert Watt, Orlaigh Quinn, ...
Methods: Analysis of Budget 2018 https://www.socialjustice.ie/content/publications/budget-2018-analysis-and-critique - Email
Social Justice Ireland
2018-01-20
Intent: To stimulate debate on how to reconnect people and the State, and to encourage policy changes to promote a more deliberative democracy in Ireland
Details: Information re Social Policy Conference 'Society Matters: Reconnecting People and the State' which addressed questions such as Can the 'new politics' deliver a different relationship between people and the State? What kind of Ireland do we want to shape through civic participation? How do we reconn, ...
Officials: Aidan O'Driscoll, Derek Moran, Fergal Lynch, John McCarthy, Niall Burgess, Niamh O’Donoghue, Robert Watt, Orlaigh Quinn, ...
Methods: Information about Social Justice Ireland's 30th Annual Policy Conference 'Society Matters: Reconnecting People and the State' including link to the papers presented and videos of the day. https://www.socialjustice.ie/content/publications/see-videos-and-papers-our-30th-annual-social-policy-conference - Email
Focus Ireland
2018-01-19
Intent: Effective measures with budgetary implications to prevent and address homelessness.
Details: Budget 2018
Officials: Paschal Donohoe, Michael D’Arcy, Helen Faughnan, Anne Vaughan
Methods: As members of the Community and Voluntary Pillar we met with Department of Finance officials to discuss the forthcoming budget. - Meeting, Attended the Department of Social Protection post-budget forum. - Event / Reception
Social Justice Ireland
2017-09-21
Intent: Balanced job growth across all the regions to address the increasing disparity between Dublin and the rest of the country. A focus is required on long term unemployed people over 45, who find it particularly difficult to gain employment.
Details: Publication of our Employment Monitor highlighting that headline employment numbers are obscuring the imbalanced nature of employment growth, with Dublin far outstripping the other regions.
Officials: Aidan O'Driscoll, Derek Moran, Fergal Lynch, John McCarthy, Niall Burgess, Niamh O’Donoghue, Robert Watt, Orlaigh Quinn, ...
Methods: Email re latest Social Justice Ireland Employment Monitor, available at https://www.socialjustice.ie/content/publications/social-justice-ireland-employment-monitor-issue-4 - Email
Social Justice Ireland
2017-09-21
Intent: To implement the proposals contained with Social Justice Ireland's Budget Choices 2018, which can be accessed at https://www.socialjustice.ie/content/budget/2017/budget-2018-should-be-economically-sound-and-socially-fair
Details: Social Justice Ireland's proposals for and economically sound and socially fair Budget 2018: It should substantially increase investment in infrastructure such as social housing and rural broadband, address major problems in services like healthcare and education, should support development of the e, ...
Officials: Aidan O'Driscoll, Derek Moran, Fergal Lynch, John McCarthy, Niall Burgess, Niamh O’Donoghue, Robert Watt, Orlaigh Quinn, ...
Methods: Email
Family Carers Ireland
2017-09-11
Intent: Increased financial supports for Family Carers; increased earnings disregard for Family Carers; increase the hours a carers can work/study
Details: Social Protection policies affecting Family Carers
Officials: Helen Faughnan, Regina Doherty
Methods: Meeting with Helen Faughnan - Meeting, DSP annual Prebudget Forum with Minister Doherty - Event / Reception
Social Justice Ireland
2017-05-19
Intent: As Ireland faces into a very new international reality on taxation, Social Justice Ireland suggests that it is essential that tax policy priorities be adjusted to ensure three outcomes: (i) that the overall tax-take is increased appropriately, (ii) that the tax-base is broadened and (iii) that a fairer taxation system is developed. Government should raise the overall tax take by three percentage points by 2021.
Details: Tax Review. Recommendations (i) that the overall tax-take is increased appropriately, (ii) that the tax-base is broadened and (iii) that a fairer taxation system is developed. Government should raise the overall tax take by 3% by 2021. Details at https://www.socialjustice.ie/content/policy-issues/, ...
Officials: Aidan O'Driscoll, Derek Moran, Fergal Lynch, John McCarthy, Niall Burgess, Niamh O’Donoghue, Robert Watt, Orlaigh Quinn, ...
Methods: Email re publication of Social Justice Ireland's policy briefing on Taxation, available at https://www.socialjustice.ie/content/policy-issues/government-should-review-irelands-tax-policy-priorities-and-raise-overall-taxThe main policy recommendations in the Briefing areReforming/Broadening the Tax Base Reforming Tax BreaksIncreasing Minimum Effective Tax Rates for Higher EarnersIncreasing Corporate Taxes (see p4 & 5 of Policy Briefing)Introducing a Site Value TaxTaxing Second Homes, Empty Houses and Underdeveloped LandIntroducing a Windfall Gains TaxIntroducing a Financial Transactions TaxReforming Carbon Taxes Building a Fairer Taxation SystemStandard Rating all Discretionary Tax BreaksFavouring Fair Changes to Income Taxes (see p6& 7 of Policy Briefing)Keeping the Minimum Wage out of the Tax NetIntroducing Refundable Tax CreditsReforming individualisationMaking the Taxation System Simpler (see p8, Policy Briefing) - Email