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Submission on Actions to Achieve the Child Poverty Reduction Target: Published 21 Jul 2017 | PDF | 1.38 MB

12 May 2016

SVP welcomes Minister's reassurance on child benefit

The Society of St. Vincent de Paul (SVP) welcomes the strong reassurances by Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform, Paschal Donohoe, that no family will be punished by having child benefit withheld on account of school attendance.
09 May 2016

Ensuring that children are in school, well fed,clothed & happy is the silverbullet on social policy

A UK expert on dealing with families told a St Vincent de Paul (SVP) East Region seminar in Dublin on Saturday 7 May that making sure children went to school, well fed, clothed and happy is the silver bullet on social policy.
28 April 2016

SVP concerned that new tenant purchase scheme will deplete social housing stock

The Society of St Vincent de Paul (SVP) believes that the new tenant purchase scheme will further deplete social housing stock at a time when demand for social rented housing is so high.
17 December 2015

St Vincent de Paul gives broad welcome for thrust of Higher Education National Action Plan

The Society of St Vincent de Paul (SVP) has broadly welcomed the thrust of the National Action Plan for Equity of Access to Higher Education 2015 - 2019 launched today.
14 October 2014

Benefits welcome but austerity still hurting many

The benefits announced in the budget today and the focus on job creation are welcome and contain a number of changes sought by SVP.

22 September 2014

President Michael D Higgins launches 2nd phase of Ethics Initiative

This phase of the Ethics Initiative will be brought to civil society organisations as an opportunity for critical and fresh thinking, which he hopes will, "contribute to harnessing and supporting the profusion of positive initiatives that exist in Irish society."

Posted by Linda O'Connell on 03 April 2017 | 0 comments
Farewell from the National President
This is my last piece for the Bulletin as my term of five years as National President finishes at the end of May.
Posted by Linda O'Connell on 13 March 2017 | 0 comments
‘The What, How and Why of SVP’
I was recently asked to fill out a personality questionnaire as part of a college assignment. To be honest, I had never heard of these before and I was quite dismissive of the idea of there being just 16 different types of personalities in the world.
Posted by Tricia Keilthy on 31 January 2017 | 0 comments
A precarious balancing act? Making ends meet in low paid, insecure work
“Due to the nature of substituting (casual work on an as/when needed basis) I never know how much work I will have or how much money I will earn
Posted by Caroline Fahey on 05 January 2017 | 0 comments
Housing policy continues to fail struggling households
The reaction of some landlords and their representative bodies to the measures contained in the Government’s ‘Strategy for the Rental Sector’ exposes the flawed direction of government policy which seeks to meet social housing need primarily through the private rented...
Posted by Sarah Eustace on 17 October 2016 | 0 comments
Hidden Homless Estate Agents
Today we launched the SVP Hidden Homeless Estate Agents at the SVP Vincent’s shop in South Great Georges Street, Dublin 2.