Recent Submissions

  • Analysis of Budget 2012 from a Children and Families Perspective 

    Barnardos (Barnardos, 2011)
    Barnardos is particularly concerned about the cumulative affect the cuts to social welfare and public services coupled with the imposition of more taxes will have on vulnerable low income families. Larger families (with ...
  • Children’s Perspective of Budget 2018 

    Barnardos (Barnardos, 2017)
    Budget 2018 has provided some small gains for families, such as funding for frontline health services and investment in housing supports. However, it is disappointing that it fails to provide real solutions for the major ...
  • Analysis of Budget 2016 from a Child Perspective 

    Barnardos (Barnardos, 2015)
    Barnardos welcomes the investment in children in Budget 2016 as an important first step in tackling child poverty and inequality. It will, however, take a sustained plan to properly resource the services which most impact ...
  • Analysis of Budget 2015 from a Children and Families Perspective 

    Barnardos (Barnardos, 2014)
    Barnardos is pleased that some announcements made in Budget 2015 show the Government is keen to offer some relief to low income families. Measures such as a €5 increase in child benefit for all families will help alleviate ...
  • Analysis of Budget 2014 from a Children and Families Perspective 

    Barnardos (Barnardos, 2013)
    Barnardos welcomes some key measures announced in Budget 2014 particularly those that will ease the financial burden on many hard pressed families. The introduction of practical measures such as free GP care to the under ...
  • Analysis of Budget 2013 from a Children and Families Perspective 

    Barnardos (Barnardos, 2012)
    Barnardos is deeply concerned about the impact the measures outlined in Budget 2013 will have on children and families across Ireland, particularly those struggling on low incomes. This Budget belies the Government’s ...
  • Key Changes in Budget 2021 

    Barnardos (Barnardos, 2020-10-14)
    The focus of Budget 2021 is investment in the resilience of the Irish people and the economy; children have demonstrated incredible resilience in this pandemic and continue to do so. Investment in children has never been ...
  • Children's Perspective of Budget 2019 

    Barnardos (Barnardos, 2018-10-10)
    Budget 2019 demonstrates some effort to tackle child poverty through much needed social welfare changes; but the Government failed to deliver the ambition and vision required to meet its own target of lifting 100,000 ...