The latest Census 2006 figures reveal how family life in Ireland is being harmed by economic pressures, especially the still high price of property.
The Census confirms the very long commuting times faced by many workers each day. A minimum of 131,144 people are taking one to one and a half hours travelling to their workplace, and another 56,275 are spending more than an hour and a half travelling to work.
Immediate release - June 28, 2007
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New opinion poll shows alarming drop in levels of religious knowledge
Press Release – 9th April, 2007
A new poll conducted by Lansdowne Market Research on behalf of The Iona Institute and the Evangelical Alliance Ireland reveals, for the first time ever, levels of religious knowledge among the general population and finds an alarming drop-off.
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to read full release. Release. April 9, 2007. Poll results (PDF)
Stay-at-home mothers now being penalised by up to €6,240 pa under tax individualisation says new report
Press Release – 15th March, 2007
As a result of Budget 2007, one-income married couples with children will now pay up to €6,240 more in tax each year than two-income married couples on the same income, a new paper from The Iona Institute says. The gap has now more than doubled since tax individualisation was announced by the then Finance Minister, Charlie McCreevy, to great controversy at the end of 1999.
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New Institute Launched
Press Release – 8th January, 2007
A majority of Irish people continue to support marriage
and the two-parent family, a new opinion poll has found. The poll, conducted
by Lansdowne Market Research, and commissioned by a new organisation -
The Iona Institute - has found that there is a two-to-one majority of
Irish people in favour of marriage and/or the two-parent family.
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to read full release. Release. January 8, 2007
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