Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation, Mary Mitchell-O'Connor, TD, at the launch of a €50m community loan initiative, with Paul O'Sullivan, CEO, Clann Credo (Sept 2016)
Charities Institute Ireland (CII) has welcomed the Budget announcement of a review of charities VAT, with a view to implementing a VAT Compensation scheme for charities that engage in independent fundraising.
Read MoreYazda, the organisation representing members of the Yazidi community threatened with genocide by ISIS, has called on the Irish government to include Yazidi victims of psychological, physical and sexual torture among the quota of Syrian refugees to be accepted into Ireland.
Read MoreSAGE, the support and advocacy service for older people, has warned that people in care situations are being increasingly prescribed potentially dangerous medication for convenience of staff rather than for therapeutic reasons.
Read MoreThe Social Finance Foundation (SFF) has welcomed the continued support from the Department of Social Protection aimed at expanding the Personal Microcredit (PMC) scheme. The scheme is designed to enable credit unions provide small affordable loans to individuals and families who heretofore had to rely on moneylenders.
Read MoreThe launch of a pilot personal microcredit scheme in November 2015 to tackle moneylending was a significant new initiative supported by the Social Finance Foundation (SFF) during 2015.
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