Current Members
The Community Platform is currently made up of a network of 28 national networks and organisations. They include:
- Age Action Ireland
- ATD 4th World
- Community Action Network
- Community Workers’ Co-operative
- Cairde
- Debt and Development Coalition Ireland
- European Anti-Poverty Network Ireland
- Focus Ireland
- Gay and Lesbian Equality Network
- Immigrant Council of Ireland
- Irish Association of Older People
- Irish National Organisation of the Unemployed
- Irish Penal Reform Trust
- Irish Refugee Council
- Irish Rural Link
- Irish Traveller Movement
- Migrant Rights Centre Ireland
- National Adult Literacy Agency
- National Network of Women’s Refuges and Support Services
- National Traveller Women’s Forum
- National Women’s Council of Ireland
- Older Women’s Network
- OPEN
- Pavee Point Travellers Centre
- Rape Crisis Network Ireland
- Simon Communities of Ireland
- Threshold
- Voluntary Drug Treatment Network
- Vincentian Partnership for Justice
- Women’s Aid
Latest News
The Community Platform*, a network of 30 national community organisations today called on those involved in negotiating the new programme for government to pursue an alternative vision for Ireland - an Ireland where policies and actions are based on the values of social solidarity, justice, equality and sustainability.
Updates From Members
Debt and Development Coalition recently launched a new book 'Driving the Getaway Car? Ireland, Tax and Development', written on behalf of its member organisations by Dr Sheila Killian of the University of Limerick.
'Driving the Getaway Car?' explains how impoverished countries lose billions of euro through weak domestic tax collection capacities and through unjust international tax structures. Transfer pricing abuse is highlighted as a particular area of concern. This is when subsidiaries of the same multi-national company artificially set the prices of goods and services in order to minimise their tax bills, often through the use of secrecy jurisdictions, popularly known as tax havens. This illegal practice is very difficult to monitor and costs impoverished countries billions in lost tax revenue.