FLAC Campaigns
Throughout its 35 years of work for the community, FLAC has been involved in a range of campaigns. Its primary campaign concern is its original goal, the establishment of a concrete and functioning civil legal aid system in Ireland. (Read more about the history of FLAC's legal aid campaign.)
However, FLAC has focused on issues ranging from social welfare rights, immigrant rights and employment law through credit and consumer law, public interest law and human rights law. FLAC's work has made a difference in communities: from informing individuals about their rights to reforming legislation to campaigning for improved state policy.
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Currently FLAC is running the following campaigns:
- Credit and Debt Campaign
Consumers in Ireland have become more and more dependent on credit to organise their finances in the past decade. Credit allows people to buy now and pay later and its availability increases spending power and therefore general economic activity and growth in jobs.
- Campaign for fairness in social welfare decisions on HRC
Growing from an earlier campaign, FLAC has been working to clarify how social welfare law is applied in establishing habitual residence. We had become concerned that entire groups were being excluded from qualifying for payments. A number of positive decisions have made the situation clearer, however FLAC will continue to monitor the way in which the law in the area is applied.
- Legal Aid Campaign
FLAC campaigns for a comprehensive civil legal aid service. Civil legal aid is different from criminal legal aid, which is available to all those who meet certain criteria. In Ireland, state civil legal aid is provided through the Legal Aid Board. FLAC has provided information and advice to those in need since 1969.
- Direct Provision campaign
FLAC is conducting an updated study on Direct Provision which will examine this scheme of dispersal and accommodation of asylum seekers in Ireland from a human rights perspective, particularly focusing on poverty levels and social exclusion.