Pre-Budget Submissions Roundup

This is a collection of pre-budget submissions published so far and relevant to the protection of human rights in Ireland. Please feel free to let us know of others in the comments.

Disability and Carers

• Disability Federation of Ireland (reported here)
• Inclusion Ireland (reported here)
• Caring for Carers
• Care Alliance
• Carer’s Association
• Centre for Independent Living

Exclusion, Poverty and Homelessness

• St Vincent de Paul (reported here)
• Threshold
• Irish National Organisation for the Unemployed.
• Focus Ireland (reported here)
• Social Justice Ireland
• Irish Traveller Movement (reported here)
• Irish Congress of Trade Unions
• Labour Youth

Children and Families

• Barnardos
• National Women’s Council of Ireland (reported here and with a special focus on child benefit here)
• End Child Poverty Coalition
• OPEN and Treoir
• National Youth Council of Ireland
• Children’s Rights Alliance (reported here)

The Elderly

• Age Action (reported here)
• Irish Senior Citizens’ Parliament

Liam will be live blogging Budget 2010 on HRiI on December 9, 2009.  This will be followed by a blog carnival on December 10 2009 (International Human Rights Day) assessing the impact of Budget 2010 on human rights protections in Ireland.