Assessing Funding Models for Water Services Provision in Ireland

13 Nov 2014
infobo
Water services provision is a natural monopoly. This drives a propensity to market failure and economic inefficiency in the absence of robust regulatory measures. In this context I discuss the appropriate role of the regulator and the advantages and disadvantages of pricing water usage. Beyond...

NERI Seminar: Funding Models for Water Services Provision

Past event
Presentation given by Dr Tom McDonnell at the November NERI seminar. Based on a recent working paper, available here, Dr McDonnell presented findings suggesting that combining a volume based pricing structure with a system of income related water credits may best reconcile the main policy objectives...

Thoughts on funding of water services

05 Nov 2014
Dr Tom McDonnell
Next week the NERI will be holding a seminar on the topical issue of water charges (detail are here). In advance of the seminar, this blog provides some thoughts on funding water services in Ireland. Access to clean and affordable water is a human right. Yet there is no such thing as free water. On...

Trends in Average Incomes since 2006

04 Nov 2014
Micheál Collins
Income levels, whether for individuals or households, are far from perfect measures of progress and well-being. However, they offer one insight into the experience of recent years for households across the Republic. In particular, trends in disposable income (income after taxes and welfare payments)...

Monday Blog: Welfare Reform in Northern Ireland

02 Nov 2014
Tom Healy
Posted on November 02, 2014 by Tom Healy The story goes about a town built just beyond the bend of large river. One day three bodies were sighted floating along downstream in the river. One body was dead so they buried it. One was alive, but quite ill, so they put that person into the hospital. The...

Under employment in the Republic of Ireland

28 Oct 2014
Daragh McCarthy
People classified as part-time underemployed are those who wish to work full-time, but cannot find a full-time job. Underemployment statistics touch on both the quality and quantity of work available to a sizable cohort in the labour market. In a sense, underemployment refers to a situation where an...

NERI Post Budget Seminar

23 Oct 2014
Daragh McCarthy
The October NERI seminar took place yesterday afternoon in the INTO Learning Centre. Michelle Murphy (Social Justice Ireland), Cormac Staunton (TASC) and Michael Taft (UNITE) provided on overview of the impact of the Budget 2015 with a focus on changes to system of income tax and the prospects for...
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