Minister Calleary launches Public Consultation for New Roadmap for Social Inclusion
- Published on: 17 April 2025
- Last updated on: 18 April 2025
- public consultation now open until 30 June 2025
- Minister Calleary urges all interested parties to share their views
The Minister for Social Protection Dara Calleary has launched a public consultation for a new Roadmap for Social Inclusion.
The new roadmap will be a successor to the current Roadmap for Social Inclusion 2020-2025 which is the latest in a series of such plans dating back to 1997.
The Roadmap for Social Inclusion aims to reduce the number of people in poverty in Ireland and increase social inclusion for the most disadvantaged.
The current Roadmap contains 81 commitments, which have been developed with relevant departments and agencies to reflect their strategies and plans. Progress on the Roadmap and its commitments have been reported in annual Progress Reports and Report Cards.
Launching the consultation today, Minister Calleary said:
“I am pleased to launch this important consultation. This new Roadmap is key to ensuring that social inclusion is at the core of public policy and service strategy across all government departments and services.
“The Programme for Government commits to continuing the focus on addressing poverty and social exclusion and the new Roadmap will be a key component to reaching this commitment.
“I urge all interested parties to engage with this consultation to put in place a successor Roadmap that will help to guide us over the coming years.”
The public consultation is open until 30 June 2025.
For more information and for details on how to share your views visit gov.ie/SIConsultation.
Notes
The Roadmap for Social Inclusion is an overarching statement of government strategy, which acknowledges the range of sectoral plans already in place that have social inclusion as a core objective, in areas such as education, health, children and childcare, community development and housing.
The Roadmap for Social Inclusion 2020-2025: Ambition, Goals, Commitments was published in January 2020. It is the successor to the National Action Plan for Social Inclusion which concluded at the end of 2017 and is the latest in a series of such plans dating back to 1997.
The Roadmap for Social Inclusion builds on the work of its predecessors with the aim of reducing the number of people in consistent poverty in Ireland and increasing social inclusion for those who are most disadvantaged.