Social Justice Ireland has published a report on ‘Budget Choices 2026’ on 2 July 2025.
The report is a pre-budget proposal for long term policy changes to reduce poverty and inequality. It contains fully-costed Budgetary packages across more than a dozen policy areas including health, housing, education, welfare, sustainability and more. One of the main recommendations of the report is that there should be a €25 increase in all weekly social welfare rates in order to tackle poverty.
The report is available to download here.