Simonetta Ryan

Intent: Raise awareness of policy related issues affecting family carers

Details: Improve Supports for Family Carers

Intent: Preventing homelessness::Resourcing Housing First::Ensuring funding for sufficient, short term emergency accommodation::Ensuring funding for social and affordable housing supply

Details: Lobbying on Budget 2019

Intent: To ensure effective cnsultation

Details: Making Work Pay initiative

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, ... Read more

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

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, ... Read more

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

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, ... Read more

Intent: To fix anomalies in relation to the administration of the ENP scheme. To reduce the 2 year requirement for young parents on the BTEA. Improvements in the HAP scheme and greater protection for young renters. Change in the policy for young mothers U16 to receive child benefit directly. Incentivise young parents to return to training by either restoring the training allowance or improving incentives to halt the decline in numbers attending. Improve access to the ACS for young student parents.::Increase in the rate of Job seekers allowance to young fathers to support their contributions to their child.

Details: The administration of Exceptional Needs Payments (ENP), The conditions attached to the Back to Education Allowance (BTEA), Housing: Rent Supplement & Centralised Rent Clinics, Child Benefit and ineligibility mothers under 16 years of age, Restoration of Training Allowances, The Affordable Chil, ... Read more

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.