Welcome to the INOU Policy Section

The policy section is an additional piece to the INOU website. There are five sections: Policy Developments; Social Partnership; Statistics; Archive and Links.

The first section 'policy developments' is divided into three sub-sections: current developments; submissions; and briefing papers. If you are looking for our analysis on a particular topic and do not find it in these sections, please check the policy archive where we have stored previous submissions and briefing papers by topic.

The second section 'social partnership' will be divided into two sub-sections: current National Social Partnership Agreement; and an historical piece on the INOU's involvement in this process from 'Partnership 2000'.

The third section covers a range of statistics that relate to unemployment and related issues, including the Live Register; the Quarterly National Household Survey; and redundancy figures. This section will also include a commentary on official reports and what they tell us about unemployed people and their lives including the Census; Measuring Ireland's Progress; and the EU-SILC annual report. Links to the relevant page on the Central Statistics Office will be listed as well.

The fourth section archives the policy developments section at the end of each year. However, data will not be stored by year but by topic. This section currently includes previous briefing papers and submissions: some of which were included on the previous website in publications.

The final section 'links' lists other community and voluntary organisations the INOU works with through the Community Platform; and Community Voluntary Pillar for example. It also lists key Government Departments and agencies; trade unions; employer organisations and other relevant players.