A steady-as-she-goes budget

18 Oct 2021
Dr Tom McDonnell
In this week's blog by NERI Co-director Dr. Tom McDonnell, he discusses the outcomes of Budget 2022. Budget 2022 was a place-holder budget. It clearly wasn’t a fire-fighting budget in the vein of Budget 2021, but nor was it a truly post-pandemic budget either. For example, the EWSS will be retained...

Presentation and Video from 'Options for raising tax revenue in Ireland' webinar

Past event
The NERI webinar 'Options for raising tax revenue in Ireland' took place as a Zoom webinar on Wednesday 24th November, 2021 at 15:00. Barra Roantree, ESRI made the presentation. Abstract: Even before the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic, an aging population, an overreliance on corporation tax...

Don’t expect a transformative budget

08 Oct 2021
Dr Tom McDonnell
In this week's blog by NERI Co-director Dr. Tom McDonnell, he discusses Budget 2022. Next Tuesday’s budget will take place in a very different context to last year’s one. Last year’s firefighting budget was all about preserving the economy’s productive capacity by as much as possible against the...

NERI Webinar: Post Budget 2022 commentary - presentations and video

Past event
The NERI Post Budget 2022 Commentary took place as a Zoom webinar on Wednesday 20th October, 2021 at 15:00. The details of the webinar were as follows: Date & Time: Wednesday 20th October, 2021 at 15:00 Topic: Post Budget 2022 Commentary Speakers: Michael Taft (SIPTU), Michelle Murphy (Social...

The rhetorical attack on wages has already kicked off.

30 Sep 2021
Ciarán Nugent
In this weeks blog by Ciarán Nugent NERI economist, he explores wages as we emerge from the pandemic. As we emerge from lockdown and emergency income supports for workers made unemployed by the pandemic are withdrawn, the real unemployment rate will soon reveal itself. With budget time approaching...
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