The Budget 2025: NERI Post Budget analysis seminar
The Budget 2025: NERI Post Budget analysis seminar took place in the ICTU offices, 31/32 Parnell Square, Dublin 1, D01 YR92 on Wednesday 9 October 2024 from 15:30 - 16:45. Please find the...
Economic Security - New Economic Model: Pillar 3
This Long-Read series no. 9 by NERI Co-director, Dr. Tom McDonnell is concerned with economic security and inequality, as well as with income adequacy and well-being. Any model of economic development, if it is to be genuinely inclusive, must be predicated on sustainable progress in each of these...
Economic Security
In this NERI Blog and its associated Long-Read No. 9, NERI Co-director Dr. Tom McDonnell discusses economic security and inequality, as well as income adequacy and well-being. Read the latest NERI Long-Read here. A general election is fast approaching in the Republic of Ireland and the new Labour...
Where is the strategy? An uninspiring and questionable budget
In this blog, NERI Co-director, Dr. Tom McDonnell gives his opinions on Budget 2025. Fiscally questionable Budget 2025 contained a range of spending increases and tax cuts totalling about €10.5 billion of which €2.2 billion was once-off in nature. Ostensibly the public finances are in great shape...
The cost of not investing in public services
In this blog, NERI Co-director Paul Mac Flynn discusses the findings of a report into the state of the NHS in England. Last week the new Labour government released the findings of a report into the state of the NHS in England. To say that the headlines were bleak would be something of an...
Opening Statement – Oireachtas Committee on Budgetary Oversight on the Overall Budgetary Package
NERI Submission by Tom McDonnell and Ciarán Nugent to the Select Committee on Budgetary Oversight (18 September 2024). The discussion will be on ‘Views on the Overall Budgetary Package as set out in the Summer Economic Statement and Specific Issues to be addressed in the Budget’ - Committee on...
Budget 2025: Lets not repeat the mistakes of the past
In this blog, Dr Tom McDonnell, NERI Co-director gives the NERI views on the Overall Budgetary Package as set out in the Summer Economic Statement and specific issues to be addressed in Budget 2025. NERI are appearing before the Committee on Budgetary Oversight at 15:30 next Wednesday 18 September -...
Ireland Should Define Its Spending Programmes
In this blog by Dr. Nat O'Connor, Lecturer/Assistant Professor in Social Policy at UCD he presents on his report 'Ireland's Public Spending Explained 2024'. Find his presentation and video from the NERI seminar that took place on Wednesday 4 September 2024. Ireland’s Public Spending Explained 2024...
NERI Seminar Series 2024: Ireland's Public Spending
The seminar titled 'Ireland's Public Spending' was presented by Dr. Nat O'Connor, Lecturer/Assistant Professor in Social Policy at UCD. It took place on Wednesday 4 September 2024. Please find the...
Presentation & video from the NERI seminar -'Do Cultural Capital and Social Capital Explain the Social Origin Pay Gap?'
The seminar titled 'Do Cultural Capital and Social Capital Explain the Social Origin Pay Gap?' was presented by Michael Vallely, Postdoctoral Research Fellow, ESRI. It took place on Thursday 24 October 2024 at 15.30 remotely. Please find the presentation and video from the NERI seminar. Details of...