Some context to Welfare Spending

21 Jul 2015
Paul Mac Flynn
An article appeared in this morning's Belfast Telegraph outlining expenditure on some welfare benefits in Northern Ireland for the latest financial year. The figures were obtained in response to a parliamentary question to the Minister for Social Development and can be found here . The article made...

Monday Blog—Review of 2015 so far

20 Jul 2015
Tom Healy
I am on leave for the next few weeks, so this Monday blog recaps on the topics covered over the opening half of the year. An economy that works for the people 13 July Vision Taxation, Social wage, Investment Emigration has taken its toll 6 July Emigration Demography, Young workers, Social capital...

Monday Blog: An economy that works for the people

12 Jul 2015
Tom Healy
An economy that works is one that enables workers, their families and communities to not only survive but flourish and prosper in the widest sense that no measure of GDP or income can adequately capture. But, a society is more than the sum of individuals or households and a properly functioning...

2016 Living Wage: no change, yet lots of change

11 Jul 2015
Micheál Collins
The 2016 Living Wage for the Republic of Ireland has been calculated by the Living Wage Technical Group. It is €11.50 per hour. The rate is unchanged from 2015. Over the past year there have been decreases in living costs for most items included in the living wage calculation. However, these...

Monday Blog: Address to the ICTU Biennial Conference 2015

07 Jul 2015
Tom Healy
President, I would like to thank the General Secretary and the Executive Council for inviting me to introduce this debate on the economy. The motions concern more than just the key areas of employment, wages, pensions and public finances. An economy that works is one that enables workers, their...

Living Wage 2015 €11.50 per hour

06 Jul 2015
Micheál Collins
The 2015 Living Wage has been calculated by the Living Wage Technical Group. It is €11.50 per hour. The new figure represents an increase of 5c per hour over the 2014 rate (€11.45). The increase has been driven by changes in the cost of living and changes in the taxation system over the past year...

Monday Blog: Emigration has taken its toll

03 Jul 2015
Tom Healy
Significant progress has been made in reducing the overall rate of unemployment in the Republic of Ireland since 2012 when it peaked at one in seven in the workforce. Still, the overall rate remains close to one in ten and is double that in the case of persons under the age of 26. As in previous...

Whose on the Minimum Wage?

02 Jul 2015
Micheál Collins
A new NERI research paper estimates the number of workers on the minimum wage and further profiles these workers by gender, by the sector they work in and by their employment status (full-time, part-time, permanent, temporary etc). The data also allows an examination of the household/family...
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