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Together, Marcus and FareShare spearheaded the founding of the Child Food Poverty Taskforce, which in 2021 successfully lobbied the government for a summer extension of the voucher scheme - a replacement for free school lunches - as well as a Winter Package that lasted until Easter 2021, supporting vulnerable children through the winter of 2020.
The Department of Agriculture, Food, Fisheries and the Marine (Irish: An Roinn Talmhaíochta, Bia, Iascaigh agus Mara) is a department of the Government of Ireland. According to the department, its mission is to "lead the sustainable development of a competitive, consumer focused agri-food sector and to contribute to a vibrant rural economy and ...
A service voucher is a financial instrument which allows a public authority to target social services at those it deems in need, and at the same time to promote employment and labour market integration. It effectively boosts demand for certain services which meet social policy objectives.
Introduced in the Finance Act 2001, the SSIA was structured so that the Government of Ireland contributed one euro for every four invested by the account holder. The maximum contribution was €254 per month. [2] For deposit account SSIAs, banks paid interest on top of the government bonus and principal accumulated.
On 28 November 2010, European Commission, European Central Bank (ECB) and the International Monetary Fund (IMF), colloquially called the European Troika, agreed with the Irish government in a three-year financial aid programme on the condition of far-reaching austerity measures to be imposed on the Irish society in order to cut government expenditure.
Safefood (also known as The Food Safety Promotion Board; FSPB; Irish: An Bord um Chur Chun Cinn Sabháilteachta Bia; [1] Ulster-Scots: Tha Mait Safétie Fordèrin Boord [2] or The Meat Sauftie Forder Buird), [3] is the public body responsible for raising consumer awareness of issues relating to food safety and healthy eating across the island of Ireland (both Northern Ireland and the Republic ...
[105] The government's austerity programme, which involves reduction in government policy, has been linked to a rise in food banks. A study published in the British Medical Journal in 2015 found that each one percentage point increase in the rate of Jobseeker's Allowance claimants sanctioned was associated with a 0.09 percentage point rise in ...
The 2021 Irish budget was the Irish Government Budget for the 2021 fiscal year, which was presented to Dáil Éireann on 13 October 2020 by Minister for Finance Paschal Donohoe, and the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform Michael McGrath.