CORI Justice will hold its 20th annual Social Policy on June 19th, 2008. It will address the topic of Making Choices - Choosing Futures. Speakers include: George Lee (RTE), David Begg (ICTU), Danny McCoy (IBEC), Brigid Reynolds and Sean Healy (CORI Justice), Micheal Collins (Trinity College), Sean Ward (Public Policy analyst) and Gerry Hughes (Pension Reform Research Group). This conference will be followed by the 12th biennial World Congress on Basic Income (June 20-21). People wishing to attend both events may do so at a special reduced fee.

CORI Justice 20th Annual Social Policy Conference: Making Choices - Choosing Futures
Thursday, June 19, 2008 Download Pdf

Venue:
UCD - Quinn School of Business, Belfield, Dublin 4
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Context
Ireland is at another cross roads. Having become a prosperous country it finds itself facing new questions. How can economic development be maintained at a sustainable level? How can the available resources be best used to secure the required levels of infrastructure and social services? How can poverty, inequality and social exclusion be addressed in a more effective manner? What needs to be done to secure environmental, economic and social sustainability?

There is a growing realisation that the choices we make today will in effect choose the future in which we and coming generations will live.

What future do we want to see emerge? What choices need to be made now to ensure such a future will emerge? This policy conference will address these and related questions from a variety of perspectives.

Advance booking is essential.
Please complete the attached booking form and return to:
CORI Justice, St Mary's, Bloomfield Avenue, Dublin 4, Ireland

Conference Papers

Part One: Making Choices - Choosing Futures

- An economist's perspective: Speaker: George Lee Economics Editor, RTE
- A trade union perspective: Speaker: David Begg, General Secretary, Irish Congress of Trade Unions
- A business perspective: Speaker: Danny McCoy, Director, Irish Business and Employers Confederation
- A community and voluntary perspective: Speakers: Seán Healy and Brigid Reynolds
Directors, CORI Justice

Part Two: Securing an Adequate Income

- What is an appropriate level of minimum income? Speaker: Micheál Collins, Department of Economics, Trinity College Dublin
- The Case for a Universal State Pension: Lessons from New Zealand for Ireland's Green Paper on Pensions: Speaker: Gerry Hughes, Pensions Policy Research Group, Trinity College Dublin
- Basic Income in Ireland: surveying three decades: Speaker: Seán Ward, Public sector analyst

BIEN World Congress on Basic Income - June 20-21st, 2008
The CORI Justice annual social policy conference will be followed by a two-day World Congress on Basic Income. The Congress is held biennially under the aegis of BIEN (Basic Income Earth Network) and is supported by CORI Justice among others. More than 80 papers will be presented during the Congress. Details of the Congress are available on this website and are available also at www.basicincomeireland.com. A special discount rate is available for people wishing to attend the 2-day Congress as well as the social policy conference.

CORI JUSTICE
CORI Justice was established 27 years ago. It is concerned with issues of principles, paradigms and guiding values as well as with the specifics of problems and policies. It approaches all of these from a social justice perspective.

The religious quest seeks to deal with ultimate issues. CORI Justice has always seen this quest as deeply rooted in the struggle to move the world from where it is towards a better place. This involves, among other things, ongoing dialogue with as wide a range of perspectives, groups, organisations and people as possible.

This conference is the twentieth in a series of social policy conferences stretching back to 1988 aimed at promoting this dialogue.

CORI Justice has been a recognised social partner within the Community and Voluntary pillar of social partners, since 1996. It has negotiated and signed the last four national agreements.

Website: www.cori.ie/justice

Conference Topic: Making Choices - Choosing Futures

Date: June 19, 2008
Registration: 9.15 a.m.
Conference: 9.45 -- 5.00 p.m.
Venue: UCD, Quinn School of Business, Belfield, Dublin 4

Conference Chairperson: Mary Cunningham
(Director, National Youth Council of Ireland)
Conference Fee: €50
Conference & Basic Income Congress Fee: €130
Advance booking is essential.
To book a place please complete the attached booking form and return to:
CORI Justice, St Mary's, Bloomfield Avenue, Dublin 4, Ireland.

APPLICATION FORM

Name: ___________________________________________________________

Address: __________________________________________________________
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Telephone No: ________________________

To reserve a place, Please choose Option A or Option B

Option A - Conference Only
I enclose the Conference Fee of €50
(This includes payment for lunch, coffees and a copy of the book containing the conference papers.)

Option B - Conference & Basic Income Congress
I enclose the Conference + Congress Fee of €130
(This includes payment for lunch and, coffees on all three days, a copy of the book containing the conference papers and all materials from Congress 2008.)

Dietary requirements:

Vegetarian: _________________
Other, please specify: _________

Please complete and return Application Form with fee to:

The Justice Office,
CORI, St Mary's, Bloomfield Avenue, Dublin 4, Ireland