Monday Blog: Education at the cutting edge of a new vision

04 Apr 2015
Tom Healy
[Text of address to be given at Irish National Teachers Organisation Annual Conference in Ennis, Co Clare, on 6 April 2015] Easter week marks the time when many education related organisations hold their annual gathering. It is an occasion of discussion, meetings, announcements, statements...

Monday Blog: We never had it so good?

21 Mar 2015
Tom Healy
Some years ago, during the Roaring Celtic Tiger period, I had occasion to attend a conference which treated the idea and measurement of Human Well-Being. Speaking to a former Taoiseach who had just joined the proceedings, I informed him that the participants were not entirely sure if life was...

Taxes and Income Related Taxes since 2007

20 Mar 2015
infobo
The period 2007-2015 has been one of significant economic turmoil and change for the Republic of Ireland. This paper focuses on issues relating to taxation, and in particular the forms of taxation that applied to incomes, over those years. It first outlines overall trends in taxation during the...

Quarterly Economic Facts - Spring 2015

19 Mar 2015
infobo
Recent years have seen a huge growth in the supply, range and timeliness of data from a variety of official agencies including the Central Statistics Office (CSO), the Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency (NISRA), Eurostat, the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD)...

Monday Blog: It's all about choices

14 Mar 2015
Tom Healy
With a general election in the Republic of Ireland looming sometime between now and this time next year it is timely to consider what choices and policy options are appropriate. The Nevin Economic Research Institute is not associated with any political party or platform. Our job is to undertake...

Employment in the public sector

12 Mar 2015
Daragh McCarthy
As shown in the latest edition of the Quarterly Economic Facts, the public sector in the Republic of Ireland accounts for 18.4 per cent of total employment—not far from the average level across OECD countries. The public sector employees make up 20 per cent of the total number of people working in...

Monday Blog: From Strabane to Strangford Lough

07 Mar 2015
Tom Healy
(HMRC) and £650 million (DFP) for the total amount of corporation tax collected per annum. These may be under-estimates to the extent that corporations with HQs in Britain may extract profits in Northern Ireland but book them in Britain. A cut in this tax could cost well over £100 million per annum...
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