Let’s assume the Government comes up with the best house-property tax ever devised – truly progressive, taking into account all the social factors such as unemployment, low-income, arrears, and mortgage…

Is there no limit to the extent to which poverty deniers will twist and misrepresent facts to fit their agenda?   If Eilis O’Hanlon’s piece in the Sunday Independent is anything…

A new report is out – Constructing a Food Poverty Indicator for Ireland.  It estimates that one in ten people experienced ‘food poverty’ in 2010.  In other words, hunger.  I…

According to leaks, the Government is apparently ‘considering’ proposals from a Department of Social Protection working group to reform Child Benefit payments.  There is something profoundly manipulative about this debate. …

The Government claims that ‘everything is on the table’.  If so, let’s put the findings of the ESRI paper, ‘Emerging From Recession?’  by John Bradley and Gerhard Untiedt in the…