Fair budget, fair society: A human rights analysis of Budget 2015 from Irish civil society
16 October 2014
FLAC advocates for the application of a human rights framework to the budgeting processes and decisions in our pre-budget submission. Budget Day affects every person in the State and ensuring that the decisions made are fair and transparent could be achieved using human rights law as guidelines. FLAC has organised a post-budget seminar, Fairer Budget, Fairer Society: A human rights analysis of Budget 2015 from Irish civil society on Thursday 16 October 10am-12pm in the European Parliament Information Office on 43 Molesworth Street, Dublin 2.
This seminar is similar to last year’s joint post-budget event, organised by FLAC and the Equality Budgeting Campaign, as a coordination of civil society organisations and elected representatives to analyse the budget from a human rights law perspective.
The seminar will start with a panel of speakers, including Des Hogan of the Legal Unit in the Irish Human Rights and Equality Commission, Prof. John Reynolds, Lecturer of Law at NUI Maynooth, June Tinsley, Policy Officer at Barnardos and Michael Taft, Economist and Research Officer withUnite, the union.
Organisations taking part will have completed a survey on how theyfeel the human rights of their clients/target group were considered in Budget 2015. The results of these surveys will be presented on the day as a human rights analysis of the budget.
In the final part of the seminar, groups will take the floor to voice their reactions to Budget 2015, considering the human rights impact on the people they work with and highlighting what recommendations they believe could lead to a fairer budget.
A briefing document on A Human Rights Approach to Budgeting was prepared for this seminar. FLAC has also produced other material on the subject of human rights in a recession, such as the paper on Respecting Rights in a Recession and a FLACsheet in Realising Rights in a Recession.
If you would like to attend the seminar and/or take part in the survey, please contact us to confirm your attendance. Registration is from 9:45 so please come as early as you can!
Venue
European Parliament Information Office, 43 Molesworth Street, Dublin 2