25 publications filtered by "social protection"
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Published on 8 Feb 2024
Bill Digest: Social Welfare (Liable Relatives and Child Maintenance) Bill 2023
The Social Welfare (Liable Relatives and Child Maintenance) Bill 2023 seeks to give legislative effect to two changes to the Social Welfare system:
(a) changes to social welfare means tests so that child maintenance payments will no longer be assessed as means, and (b) the discontinuation of the Liable Relative Provisions [Keywords: Social protection, People and communities]
*Please note that this Bill was subsequently renamed the Social Welfare and Civil Law (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2023.
Bill Digest: Social Welfare (Liable Relatives and Child Maintenance) Bill 2023 ()
Published on 3 Jan 2024
Bill Digest: Thirty-ninth Amendment of the Constitution (The Family) Bill 2023
The purpose of this Bill is to add text to Article 41.1.1° of the Constitution to expand the definition of family, which is presently founded on marriage, to include “other durable relationships”. The Bill also provides for the proposal to delete the words “on which the Family is founded” from Article 41.3.1°. [Keywords: Parliament and Government, People and communities, Social protection]
Bill Digest: Thirty-ninth Amendment of the Constitution (The Family) Bill 2023 ()
Published on 2 Jan 2024
Bill Digest: Fortieth Amendment of the Constitution (Care) Bill 2023
The purpose of this Bill is to delete the current wording of Article 41.2 Bunreacht na hÉireann in both the Irish and English text and insert a new Article 42B into the Constitution of Ireland that recognises family care. [Keywords: Parliament and Government, People and communities, Social protection]
Bill Digest: Fortieth Amendment of the Constitution (Care) Bill 2023 ()
Published on 13 Jun 2023
Bill Digest: Criminal Justice (Engagement of Children in Criminal Activity) Bill 2023
The Criminal Justice (Engagement of Children in Criminal Activity) Bill 2023 provides for two new criminal offences relating to the recruitment of children to commit crime. [Keywords: Social protection, Justice and crime, People and communities]
Bill Digest: Criminal Justice (Engagement of Children in Criminal Activity) Bill 2023 ()
Published on 19 Dec 2022
Bill Digest: Mother and Baby Institutions Payment Scheme Bill 2022
The principal purpose of the Mother and Baby Institutions Payment Scheme Bill 2022 is to establish a Scheme to be known as the Mother and Baby Institutions Payment Scheme. This Scheme will provide financial payments and a form of enhanced medical card to defined groups in acknowledgement of suffering experienced while resident in Mother and Baby and County Home Institutions. [Keywords: Health, People and communities, Social protection]
Bill Digest: Mother and Baby Institutions Payment Scheme Bill 2022 ()
Published on 15 Dec 2022
Bill Digest: Gambling Regulation Bill 2022
The Bill establishes a new Gambling Regulatory Authority to oversee the licensing and regulation of gambling activities in Ireland and updates the surrounding legislative framework [Keywords: Business and industry, Justice and crime Social protection]
Published on 19 Apr 2022
Bill Digest: Sick Leave Bill 2022
This Bill aims to provide a minimum level of protection to low paid employees, who may have no entitlement to company sick pay schemes [Keywords: Economy and finance, People and communities, Social protection]
Published on 4 Mar 2022
L&RS Note: Energy Poverty in Ireland
This note briefly explores energy poverty in Ireland, a significant multidimensional socio-economic and policy challenge [Keywords: Environment and energy, Housing and planning, Social protection]
Published on 16 Dec 2021
Bill Digest: Social Welfare Bill 2021
This Bill proposes to legislate for social welfare changes and related matters announced in Budget 2022 and to extend the Covid-19 Credit Guarantee Scheme end-date [Keywords: Parliament and government, Social protection]
Published on 8 Dec 2021
Spotlight: Addressing domestic, sexual and gender-based violence. Part Three: National Strategies/Action Plans to Address GBV.
Part three of a three-part series on addressing gender-based violence (GBV) provides an overview of national strategies/action plans to address gender-based violence from across Europe. [Keywords: Justice and crime, People and communities, Social protection]
Published on 18 Nov 2021
Spotlight: Addressing domestic, sexual and gender-based violence. Part Two: Interventions
Part two of a three-part series on addressing gender-based violence (GBV) presents analysis on evidence-based measures to address GBV and the adoption of these measures in Ireland. [Keywords: Justice and crime, People and communities, Social protection]
Spotlight: Addressing domestic, sexual and gender-based violence. Part Two: Interventions ()
Published on 15 Nov 2021
L&RS Note: Addressing domestic, sexual and gender-based violence. Part One: Overview
Part one of a three-part series on addressing gender-based violence (GBV) provides information on the prevalence of GBV and key causes and risk factors for GBV.[Keywords: Justice and crime, People and communities, Social protection]
L&RS Note: Addressing domestic, sexual and gender-based violence. Part One: Overview ()
Published on 5 Aug 2021
L&RS Note: Youth unemployment rates
This L&RS Note briefly explores the standard youth unemployment rate(s) in Ireland and comparable measures in what is an inherently complex area [Keywords: Economy and finance, People and communities, Social protection]
Published on 31 May 2021
L&RS Note: Background to the Nursing Home Support Scheme (Amendment) Bill 2021
This L&RS Note provides background and analysis for the Nursing Home Support Scheme (Amendment) Bill 2021, “Fair Deal Scheme” of financial support for long-term nursing-home care [Keywords: Health, People and Communities, Social protection]
L&RS Note: Background to the Nursing Home Support Scheme (Amendment) Bill 2021 ()
Published on 25 Mar 2021
Bill Digest: Family Leave Bill 2021
The Family Leave Bill 2021 proposes to increase the duration of Parent’s Leave by three weeks and to enable same-sex couples avail of Adoptive Leave. [Keywords: Parliament and Government, People and communities, Social protection]
Published on 10 Aug 2020
Bill Digest: Social Welfare (Covid-19) (Amendment) Bill 2020
This Bill seeks to place the Covid-19 Pandemic Unemployment Payment (PUP) on a statutory footing and for a specified period give certain social insurance entitlements [Keywords: Parliament and Government, People and communities, Social protection]
Bill Digest: Social Welfare (Covid-19) (Amendment) Bill 2020 ()
Published on 26 Mar 2020
Submissions: Emergency Measures in the Public Interest (Covid-19) Bill 2020
Submissions from 22 Members of Dáil Éireann on the Emergency Measures in the Public Interest (Covid-19) Bill 2020 [Keywords: Health, People and communities, Social protection, Economy and finance, Parliament and government]
Submissions: Emergency Measures in the Public Interest (Covid-19) Bill 2020 ()
Published on 25 Mar 2020
Bill Digest: Emergency Measures in the Public Interest (Covid-19) Bill 2020
The Bill is part of the emergency responses on the part of the Government to the Covid-19 coronavirus [Keywords: Health, People and communities, Social protection, Economy and finance]
Bill Digest: Emergency Measures in the Public Interest (Covid-19) Bill 2020 ()
Published on 18 Mar 2020
Bill Digest: Health (Preservation and Protection and other Emergency Measures in the Public Interest) Bill 2020
The Bill is part of the emergency responses on the part of the Government to the Covid-19 coronavirus [Keywords: Health, People and communities, Social protection]
Published on 24 Oct 2019
Bill Digest: Family Law Bill 2019
This bill implements the 2019 referendum results to reduce the time spouses live apart before seeking a divorce and includes some provisions connected to Brexit. [Keywords:International and EU affairs, Justice and crime, People and communities, Social protection]
Published on 18 Oct 2019
Bill Digest: Parents’ Leave and Benefit Bill 2019
The Bill Digest on the Parent’s Leave and Benefit Bill 2019 examines the broad policy context and background of the Bill as well its principal provisions. [Keywords: Parliament and Government, Social protection]
Published on 15 Jul 2019
Bill Digest: Social Welfare Bill 2019
The Social Welfare Bill 2019 provides for the extension of Jobseeker’s Benefit to the self-employed. [Keywords: Business and industry, Social protection]
Published on 12 Jan 2018
Spotlight: Home Care for Older People - Seven Policy Challenges
This Spotlight provides an overview of the operation of the home care sector in Ireland and identifies a number of current policy and legislative challenges.
[Keywords: health, people, communities, social protection]
Spotlight: Home Care for Older People - Seven Policy Challenges ()
Published on 1 Apr 2014
Spotlight: Tendering for public service provision
This Spotlight compares and contrasts competitive tendering with other ways in which the State may provide services, outlines the EU rules surrounding public procurement and examines the considerations relevant to running a competitive tendering process.
[Keywords: economy, finance, social protection]
Published on 13 Oct 2011
Spotlight: Tackling Social Welfare Fraud
This Spotlight identifies the extent of social welfare fraud and examines approaches aimed at combatting fraud [Keywords: social protection]