by Yannick Vanderborght | Nov 6, 2013 | News
Members of the Basic Income Ireland network will participate in a public event about basic income at the Public Library in Celbridge, Co Kildare, at 2pm on Saturday Nov 23rd. The event will begin with a short presentation about the fundamentals of basic income and there will be plenty of time for questions and discussion. The event is being hosted jointly by Cultivate Celbridge and Transition Town Maynooth.
Everyone is welcome to attend. The library is just off the main street (turn at AIB) and the bus from Dublin city centre is the number 67.
For more information go to: https://www.basicincomeireland.com/1/post/2013/10/participative-public-event-about-basic-income-nov-23rd.html
by Yannick Vanderborght | Oct 7, 2013 | News
The Green Party of Ireland has released its budget plan and it includes the endorsement of a basic income. Green Party leader Eamon Ryan said, “We believe this budget should provide the first phase in the move towards a basic income system. This would do more than anything else to get people out of the social welfare traps that exist and to value the massive amount of voluntary and caring work that goes on in our society.”
For more info, see Green Party Communications September 27, 2013: https://greenparty.ie/news.html?n=263
by Karl Widerquist | Sep 3, 2013 | Research
Irish blogger Lui Smyth identifies three tendencies in our contemporary situation which makes a basic income a lively (and necessary) possibility: The decline of the middle class, the end of full employment and the rise of a non-market economy. Originally published on the author’s blog, simulacrum.cc, this article has been widely reposted.
Lui, Smyth, “Three trends that will create a demand for basic income,” Simulacrum, July 10, 2013. https://simulacrum.cc/2013/07/10/three-trends-that-push-us-towards-an-unconditional-basic-income/
Also appears at: https://basicincome.org.uk/opinions/2013/08/trends-for-basic-income/
by Karl Widerquist | Jul 24, 2013 | Research
This article argues for basic income in the Irish context. It argues that the current social security system in Ireland is not working, and it discusses how basic income would impact businesses, workers, young people, low-paid individuals, workers, and taxpayers.
Anne B Ryan is an adult educator, an active member of Basic Income Ireland, a trustee of Feasta and a founder member of Cultivate Celbridge, a resilience and mutual help network in her home town. Her most recent book is Enough is Plenty: Public and Private Policies for the 21st Century (O Books, 2009).
Ryan, Anne, “Universal Basic Income: A brief overview of a support for intelligent economies, quality of life and a caring society,” Feasta, the Foundation for the Economics of Sustainability, Apr 17, 2013:
by BIEN Ireland | Jun 27, 2012 | News
Social Justice Ireland’s annual Public Policy Conference will be held in Croke Park Conference Centre on Tuesday, July 3, 2012 from 9.30am to 4.45pm and will address the issue of the future of the European Social Model. One of the main papers at this conference will be presented by one of the world’s best known advocates of Basic Income, Philippe Van Parijs. Philippe is a Belgian philosopher and political economist who has written extensively over the past quarter century on the need for a Basic Income system. At this conference he will address the topic: Basic Income in a Globalised Economy and will pay special attention to the Eurozone.
This year marks the 70th anniversary of the publication of the Beveridge Report on which much of the European Social model was developed following World War II. The value and viability of this model has been questioned in recent years. Its viability has been under much scrutiny in the context of the current economic and social crisis. Many questions have been raised concerning how it can be financed with the current focus on fiscal tightening.
A range of speakers from Ireland and abroad, including Philippe, will address these questions at this conference and identify viable responses. The day will also include a ’round-table’ of leading politicians representing Government and Opposition who will set out their positions on these issues. There will be ample time for those attending to engage with the speakers.
Economic Challenges: Dr Ide Kearney, ESRI
Social Challenges: Professor Tony Fahey, UCD
Addressing Challenges on Income: Professor Philippe van Parijs, University of Louvain
Addressing Challenges on Services: Anna Coote, New Economics Foundation
Pathways for Ireland: Seán Healy, Brigid Reynolds, Michelle Murphy, Social Justice Ireland
Roundtable Discussion: The final part of the conference will be a roundtable discussion involving Government and Opposition T.D.’s.
Date: Tuesday, July 3rd, 2012
Venue: Croke Park Conference Centre, Dublin 1, Ireland
Conference: 9.30am – 4.45pm (Registration from 9.15am)
Conference Fee*: Members of Social Justice Ireland– €50; Non-members – €75
(Conference fee includes lunch, teas/coffees and a copy of the book containing the conference papers which will be published on day of conference.)
*Discounted rates available for students, those who are unemployed and OAPs – please contact us by email secretary@socialjustice.ie or by phone 01-2130724 for details.
Advance booking is essential. To book online please go to https://socialjustice.ie/content/social-policy-conference-2012-address-european-social-model
To book via post please complete and return the application form with fee to: Social Justice Ireland, Arena House, Arena Road, Sandyford, Dublin 18.
