Child Poverty Seminar

Seminar: Child Poverty

The Irish Social Policy Association is delighted to host an evening, in-person seminar on Wednesday 10th April from 6.30pm to 8.30pm on the topic of child poverty, which is being held in the Carmelite Community Centre, Aungier Street, Dublin D02 T258.

Three guest speaker will give different perspectives on child poverty:

Dr Anna Visser, Principal Officer at the Department of the Taoiseach’s new Child Poverty and Well-being Programme Office will speak about the work of that unit.

Dr Barra Roantree, Assistant Professor in Economics at Trinity College Dublin, will give an overview of the poverty statistics and will also speak about his proposal (with Karina Doorley) of a means-tested second tier child benefit payment as a measure to reduce child poverty.

Dr Naomi Feely, Senior Research and Policy Manager at the Children’s Rights Alliance, will give an advocacy perspective.

Attendance at the seminar is free-of-charge to members of the Association, and non-members are welcome to attend for a fee of €5. Alternatively, non-members are welcome to join the association on the night.

Please email This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. to confirm your attendance

You can see the seminar presentations here:

Child poverty in Ireland (and ways to reduce it) - Dr Barra Roantree, Department of Economics, Trinity College Dublin

2024_ISPA_child_poverty.pdf

Child Poverty and Well-being Programme Office - Dr Anna Visser, Principal Officer at the Department of the Taoiseach’s Child Poverty and Well-being Programme Office

CPWPO_Presentation_ISPA_10.04.2024_compressed.pdf

Child Poverty – an advocacy perspective - Dr Naomi Feely, Senior Policy and Research Manager

ISPA_prs_NF_April_2024_compressed.pdf

 

 

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Housing For All

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Irish Social Policy Association Webinar
Housing For All
  Thursday 21st October 4.30 to 5.30pm

Housing for All - a New Housing Plan for Ireland is the government’s housing plan to 2030. It is a multi-annual, multi-billion euro plan which seeks to improve Ireland’s housing system and deliver more homes of all types for people with different housing needs.

 
Paul Lemass, our keynote speaker,  has responsibility at Assistant Secretary level for the Housing Policy Division. This Division is responsible for leading and overseeing the delivery of commitments in the Programme for Government in respect of housing policy, the rental sector, the regulation of Approved Housing Bodies, the built environment and climate action and advancing related objectives under the National Development Plan (NDP) and Project Ireland 2040.
 
Panel Speakers:
Ann-Marie O'Reilly, Policy officer, Threshold.
Orla Hegarty, Assistant Professor Architecture, UCD.
Tim Ryan, PhD research on the Kenny Report.
After the main discussion there will be a Q&A session.

  

 

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Direct Provision - the Government White Paper

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Direct Provision - The Government White Paper

Tuesday 27th April 2021, 5:30pm to 7:00pm

Location: Online, on Zoom

 

Ireland's Direct Provision system has been one of the more recent chapters in our history of housing minorities in institutional settings. Last October, the report of the Advisory Group on provision of support including accommodation to people in the international protection process was published. This was followed in February by the publication of a Government White Paper proposing to phase out the Direct Provision system by the end of 2024.
  
Catherine Day, who chaired the Advisory Group, discussed how they reached their findings, the values and principles they adopted, and detail the proposals. Catherine is a former Secretary General of the European Commission.
 
Jody Clarke, from the UN Refugee agency UNHCR, responded to the paper.
 
We also had contributions from Donnah Vuma and Reuben Hambakachere.

Donnah Vuma, who has been living in Direct Provision in Clare, won Clare Woman of the Year for her role in highlighting issues, and working to improve conditions, for her fellow residents.

Reuben Hambakachere is Integration Support Worker with the Cultúr migrants centre in Meath.

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Social Cohesion in a time of Pandemic

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Social Cohesion in a time of Pandemic

Wednesday 25th November 2020, 5:30pm to 7:00pm

Location: Online, on Zoom

 

Our speakers were Pete Lunn (ESRI) and Tony Fahey (UCD). Watch back here:

Pete's paper is entitled All in this together. 

At the beginning of the present pandemic, Pete was appointed to the Behavioural Change Subgroup of NPHET. His team have conducted multiple behavioural studies over the past six months designed to improve public communication about the virus and to support compliance with public health guidance.

 

Tony's presentation poses the question Is Ireland exceptionally cohesive? 

Most of the main symptoms of political polarisation that have caused concern in many countries in the rich world in recent years are not present in Ireland. There is little or no organised anti-emigrant sentiment in politics, no right-wing religious extremism, no enduring political cleavages on 'moral' issues, and no anti-EU or anti-globalisation protest. Economic inequalities are present but the rise in income inequality found in many countries is absent and the sharp improvement in living standards that have occurred over the past two decades has been widely shared. Other softer indicators of social cohesion are more mixed. This talk considers these patterns and reflects on what they tell us about the level and nature of social cohesion in Ireland today.

Speaker bios 

Pete Lunn is the founder and head of the Behavioural Research Unit at the ESRI. His primary area of study is how people make decisions that affect their financial, environmental and health outcomes.
Tony Fahey is Professor Emeritus of Social Policy in UCD. Before starting with UCD in 2007, he was with Economic and Social Research Institute. His research deals with a range of topics including the family, demography, housing, social equality and social change.

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