UK Spring Budget. The calm before the storm
In what will be the UK's last Spring Budget, earlier today Philip Hammond gave what could only be described as a lacklustre financial statement to the House of Commons. There were moves to increase funding for Social Care and a small reversal of the increases to Business rates in England. At UK...
Presentation slides to Retired Workers Committee: The economic and social contribution of older people
External event contribution Dr Lisa Wilson, NERI - presentation for the Irish Congress of Trade Unions, Retired Workers Seminar North/South held in ICTU Belfast office on 23rd and 24th Feburary, 2017. The presentation was on 'The economic and social contribution of oder people'.
NERI Seminar Dublin: Summary of Social Housing Assessments 2016
Slides from NERI Seminar on the Summary of Social Housing Assessments 2016, presentation by Daragh McCarthy, Researcher, Housing Agency on 22nd February, 2017. https://www.housingagency.ie/Housing/media/Media/Publications/Summary-of-Social-Housing-Assessment-Needs-2016.pdf Relevant publication from...
NERI Seminar Dublin: Investment and the Fiscal Rules
Slides from NERI Seminar on Investment and the Fiscal Rules presented by Eddie Casey, Chief Economist & Head of Secretariat, Irish Fiscal Advisory Council on 8th February, 2017.
Northern Ireland’s draft Programme for Government revealed all of the signs of a power-sharing government on the brink of collapse
In the months leading up to Martin McGuinness’s resignation as Deputy First Minister and refusal to immediately nominate a replacement calling to a halt power-sharing in Northern Ireland, and the triggering of Assembly elections there was growing skepticism and concern as to why it was taking so...
Monday Blog: Are special purpose vehicles a good idea?
Special Purpose Vehicle (SPV) is a general technical term that covers a multitude. It refers to a wide variety of arrangements whereby a financial entity is established for a ‘special purpose’ as the title suggests. The National Asset Management Agency is a type of SPV set up to buy distressed...
An Irish Wealth Tax
2017 promises to be a year of change with Brexit and Trumponomics gathering pace with diffcult to predict outcomes. One thing remaining constant is that the fiscal space available for Budget 2018 will remain tight and that discretion for current and capital spending increases and tax cuts will be...
ICTU Union College Presentation: The Welfare State & Redistribution
External event contribution Dr Micheál Collins, Assistant Professor of Social Policy, UCD - presentation for the ICTU Union College The Welfare State and Redistribution on 16th December, 2016.
Autumn Statement 2016
The Autumn Statement delivered by the new chancellor of the Exchequer Philip Hammond is the first substantial financial statement made by the government since the BREXIT referendum result in June. Naturally the referendum and its consequences featured heavily in the announcements, but it is still...
Monday Blog: Cherishing the children's teeth equally?
The term ‘social wage’ is sometimes used to refer to those public goods and services consumed by workers and their families. Apart from wages earned over a given period we enjoy the benefits of ‘free’ or heavily subsidised services in areas such as education and health (although the balance has...