{"id":295598,"date":"2026-02-13T07:09:07","date_gmt":"2026-02-13T07:09:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/295598\/"},"modified":"2026-02-13T07:09:07","modified_gmt":"2026-02-13T07:09:07","slug":"ireland-can-afford-a-basic-income-scheme-for-all-the-irish-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/295598\/","title":{"rendered":"Ireland can afford a basic income scheme for all \u2013 The Irish Times"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Sir, \u2013 As a founding member of Basic Income Ireland (BII) I would like to point out that we have been advocating for a universal basic income since May 2011. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">This was long before the introduction of a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/basic-income-for-the-arts\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/basic-income-for-the-arts\/\">pilot scheme for artists<\/a> or the newfound interest in the concept by farming and fishing organisations. BII produced a policy paper in November 2023, A Model of Basic Income for Ireland. This shows how Ireland could afford to implement a basic income for all right now. Such a scheme would avoid campaigns by sectoral groups to gain benefits for themselves.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Why is the Government not taking this less divisive approach? \u2013 Yours, etc, <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">EILEEN BOYLE,<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Dublin 4.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Sir, \u2013 As a founding member of Basic Income Ireland (BII) I would like to point out that&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":17772,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[89080,61,60,43],"class_list":["post-295598","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ireland","tag-basic-income-for-the-arts","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/295598","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=295598"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/295598\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17772"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=295598"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=295598"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=295598"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}