Issue 74
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Infrastructure
National Development Plan Review 2025: Enabling infrastructure and construction
The National Development Plan Review 2025, published in July 2025, provides €275.4 billion to address the State’s “infrastructure deficit”, increase…
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Infrastructure
Delivering homes through collaboration and partnership
As Ireland accelerates housing delivery under its new national housing plan Delivering Homes, Building Communities 2025-2030, approved housing bodies (AHBs)…
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Social Inclusion Report
Supporting Ireland’s young people
The Ombudsman for Children’s Office (OCO) is a human rights organisation set up in 2004 to promote the rights and…
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Social Inclusion Report
Mixed progress on social inclusion
The Department of Social Protection is due to publish a successor to the Roadmap for Social Inclusion 2020-2025 on 27…
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Social Inclusion Report
‘Nothing about us without us’
Achieving equality for, and with, Travellers and Roma requires sustained investment and political will in order to tackle pervasive systemic…
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Social Inclusion Report
Reducing income inequality
Public support for government action to reduce income inequality has remained consistently high and is above the European average, the…
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Social Inclusion Report
Family Resource Centres: Social inclusion in action
Family Resource Centres are one of Ireland’s most effective but under recognised engines of social inclusion. The Programme for Government…
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Infrastructure
Reimagining urban mobility with light rail
Cities across Europe are facing intensifying pressures, rapid population growth, congested road networks, and urgent climate action. With 72 per…
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Infrastructure
All-island rail project priorities
The Rail Project Prioritisation Strategy has set out how major rail schemes across the island could be sequenced and delivered…
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Infrastructure
Molecor: Innovation and technology for a more sustainable water infrastructure
Water management has become a global challenge, and with World Water Day approaching on 22 March 2026, it serves as…
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