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Ten reasons to introduce basic income • It is work and employment friendly. • It eliminates poverty traps and unemployment traps. • It promotes equity and ensures that everyone receives at least the poverty threshold level of income. • It spreads the burden of taxation more equitably. • It treats men and women equally. • It is simple and transparent. • It is efficient in labour-market terms. • It rewards types of work in the social economy that the market economy often ignores, e.g. home duties, caring, etc. • It facilitates further education and training in the labour force. • It faces up to the changes in the global economy. Key policy priorities on income distribution • If poverty rates are to fall in the years ahead, Social Justice Ireland believes that the following are required: – benchmarking of social welfare payments. – equity of social welfare rates. – adequate payments for children. – refundable tax credits. – a universal state pension. – a cost of disability payment. Social Justice Ireland believes that in the period ahead Government and policy-makers generally should: • Acknowledge that Ireland has an on-going poverty problem. • Adopt targets aimed at reducing poverty among particular vulnerable groups such as children, lone parents, jobless households and those in social rented housing. • Examine and support viable, alternative policy options aimed at giving priority to protecting vulnerable sectors of society. • Carry out in-depth social impact assessments prior to implementing proposed policy initiatives that impact on the income and public services that many low income households depend on. This should include the poverty-proofing of all public policy initiatives. 3. Income Distribution 79
• Provide substantial new measures to address long-term unemployment. This should include programmes aimed at re-training and re-skilling those at highest risk. • Recognise the problem of the ‘working poor’. Make tax credits refundable to address the situation of households in poverty which are headed by a person with a job. • Introduce a cost of disability allowance to address poverty and social exclusion of people with a disability. • Recognise the reality of poverty among migrants and adopt policies to assist this group. In addressing this issue also reform and increase the ‘direct provision’ allowances paid to asylum seekers. • Accept that persistent poverty should be used as the primary indicator of poverty measurement and assist the CSO in allocating sufficient resources to collect this data. • Move towards introducing a basic income system. No other approach has the capacity to ensure all members of society have sufficient income to live life with dignity. 80 Socio-Economic Review 2014
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TABLE OF CONTENTS 1. Introduction 7
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There are four key steps for such a
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• The first is macroeconomic stab
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(O’Connor et. al., 2012: 69). The
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What are the reasons for the emerge
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produce greater and more lasting pr
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esembles the German tradition of or
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market, became the first country to
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the European Stability Mechanism (E
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Chart 2.11 Comparison of 10-year Go
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Page 93 and 94: Analysis of High Income Individuals
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cent in households in the bottom 20
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the supply of these services. Socia
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Sports A report carried out by Inde
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developments. Complex regulation al
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Housing: a New philosophy Given the
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subsequent failure to implement a s
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Table 7.2- Population and housing s
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Social Justice Ireland believes tha
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or green areas and are located a go
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Table 7.5 - Mortgage Arrears Jun-12
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country. The most recent assessment
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(25 per cent) of households, with t
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Table 7.8 Percentage distribution o
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esulting in this mechanism becoming
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2013 nearly 2000 units were leased
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Social Justice Ireland has also pre
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Housing and children Factors which
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• Government should also meet com
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poverty and Health Health is not ju
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life expectancy According to Eurost
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Health stating that it will not be
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Table 8.2 - EU 27 Expenditure on He
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Figure 8.1 - Expenditure on health
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older people’s services Although
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people in their own homes/communiti
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Children and family services There
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catchment areas and community menta
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• Continue to facilitate and fund
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Education in Ireland - the numbers
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with significant increases projecte
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for both individuals and the state
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cause of considerable concern for p
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Department has transferred responsi
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minimum of 30 per cent of all enrol
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costs, repaying such borrowing when
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communities. Census 2011 showed tha
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Refugees and Asylum Seekers Until r
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Social Justice Ireland proposes tha
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This emigration ‘brain drain’,
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Backbenchers have little control ov
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economic, social and community deve
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over many years by Government. In r
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seen as the key to resolving many a
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Ireland. The common good must be at
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downplay as externalities. Shadow n
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All areas of governance, from inter
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the failure by governments to imple
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natural resources is required to en
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climate policy across all Governmen
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economy. Capital investment will be
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environmental taxation. Eco-taxes,
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Rural and Regional Development The
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away from a focus dominated by agri
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Rural development and the challenge
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public services and rural transport
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to oversee six pilot programmes to
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Table 13.1: Distribution of Family
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Key policy priorities on Rural Deve
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addressed urgently as part of the C
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leaders promised to work together t
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• Sustainability should be the co
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vision of zero new HIV infections,
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as sufficient to ensure that everyo
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achieve his or her potential only i
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they live with sufficient income su
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Child benefit remains a key route t
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poverty by region and area Recent S
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the home due to a combination of th
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These results, which complement ear
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transition from boom to recession o
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until Budget 2005. At its first opp
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Table A4.1: Total tax revenue as a
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Effective tax rates To complement t
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Income taxation and the income dist
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figure increased by almost one mill
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A7.4 Net Household Need 1993-2013 y
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Transport • Ireland’s car densi
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land use • In 2010, 10.7% of Irel
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goal 6: Combat HIv/AIDS, malaria an
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Browne, M. (2007) The Right Living
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Central Statistics Office (2006) In
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Daft (2013) Daft.ie rental report 2
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Department of Environment, Communit
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Department of Health (2012) Annual
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Environmental Protection Agency (20
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Eurostat (2013) Internet access and
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Healy, S and Reynolds, B. (2003)
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International Monetary Fund (2012)
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National Anti-Poverty Strategy (199
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Perkins, R., G. Sheil, B. Merriman,
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United Nations Programme on HIV/AID
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There is an extraordinary reluctanc
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