Monday Blog: Tax heresies and half-baked truths

01 Oct 2016
Tom Healy
Every heresy begins with a half-baked truth. Recent weeks have seen claims that the overall level of personal taxation in the Republic of Ireland is too high and that particular groups have been unduly burdened especially since the onset of fiscal austerity in 2009. Certainly, taxes were increased...

Internal Devaluation and the Irish Crisis

External event contribution
The European Trade Union Institute have published a policy inBrief by Tom McDonnell discussing the Irish economic crisis and its aftermath. You can find it here.

Monday Blog: What sort of future for Europe?

22 Sep 2016
Tom Healy
Terms like ‘staying in Europe’, ‘pulling out of Europe’, ‘the European project’ and similar expressions are dispensed liberally in popular discourse. The last time I checked a map, Europe comprised a lot of people form Achill in the west of Ireland to Kharyaginskiy in Russia where it is already...

Earnings and Low Pay in the Republic of Ireland

19 Sep 2016
Micheál Collins
A paper entitled ' Earnings and Low Pay in the Republic of Ireland ' was delivered to a meeting of the Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland on Thursday 14th April. The slides from the presentation are below and the paper (forthcoming in the SSISI journal) was based on an earlier NERI...

Monday Blog: The Summer of Big Numbers

15 Sep 2016
Tom Healy
And what a summer it has been. It was the summer of the ‘big numbers’. There was €13 billion in claimed back tax from Apple. There was an undisclosed large sum of money possibly running into billions in relation to vulture fund tax avoidance planning (referred to as ‘Section 110’ tax). The ultimate...

Presentation to Select Committee on Budgetary Oversight

External event contribution
Tom McDonnell appeared before the Select Committee on Budgetary Oversight on the 6th of September 2016. In his opening statement on the Economic and Fiscal Position in the Context of Budget 2017 he discussed the fiscal space and identified priorities for inclusive growth in Budget 2017. These...

Opening Statement to the Budgetary Oversight Committee

External event contribution
The Select Committee on Budgetary Oversight commenced a series of pre budget hearings last week with contributions from DKM, NERI, the Irish Central Bank, and the ESRI. The hearings will continue this week with contributions from the Fiscal Council and from the European Commission and then next week...

Big Idea: A Basic Income for Northern Ireland

18 Aug 2016
Micheál Collins
NICVA held a Festival of Economics in Belfast on Friday August 12th. Among the big ideas discussed was Basic Income. The slides below are from my 2014 presentation to a NICVA masterclass on Basic Income. They explore the issue in the context of Northern Ireland, looking at the levels, costs, and...
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