Presentations & video from 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 presentations from Dr. Rory O'Farrell (TU Dublin), Ms. Susanne Rogers (Social Justice Ireland) and Mr. Michael...
NERI Seminar Series 2024: A Model of Basic Income for Ireland
The seminar titled 'A Model of Basic Income for Ireland' was presented by John Baker, Emeritus Professor in Equality Studies, UCD and Cllr. Dave Quinn, Social Democrats, Dún Laoghaire-Rathdown County...
A New Funding Chapter for Northern Ireland: Needs-Based Mechanism
The UK Government and Northern Ireland Executive have agreed to implement a needs-based funding mechanism starting from the 2024-25 financial year. More specifically, from 2024-25, if the Northern Ireland Executive's un-ringfenced block grant funding per head falls below 124% relative to equivalent...
Northern Ireland Finance Committee: Budget 2024-25 scrutiny
External event contribution On 15th May Paul Mac Flynn, Co-director & Dr Lisa Wilson, Senior Economist gave evidence to the NI Finance Committee on budget 2024-25. Good afternoon, can we begin by thanking the Chair and the committee for the opportunity to speak with you today. The context in which budget 2024/25 was set was...
Northern Ireland’s Budget and Navigating Northern Ireland's Fiscal Challenges
This blog provides a short analytical commentary of the NI Budget announced on 25th April 2024, and makes the case for why a Programme for Government needs to be prioritised in efforts to achieve sustainable public finances. The difficulties in setting a budget were known long before yesterday. In...
21st Century Economic Security - We need income adequacy benchmarks
In this blog, NERI Co-director Dr. Tom McDonnell discusses how income adequacy is a fundamental component of any decent society. Income adequacy is a fundamental component of any decent society and fundamental to economic security. For a variety of reasons, the market economy and labour market...
NERI Opening Statement to the Select Committee on Budgetary Oversight on indexation of the Taxation and Social Protection System
NERI Submission by Tom McDonnell and Ciarán Nugent to the Select Committee on Budgetary Oversight (17 April 2024). The discussion was on indexation of the Taxation and Social Protection System. See link to the Oireachtas website.
Valuing Care: The implications for female labour market outcomes
External event contribution Paul Mac Flynn, Co-Director & Dr Lisa Wilson, Senior Economist presented a paper at the All-Island ICTU Women's Conference titled 'Valuing Care: Implications for female labour market outcomes'.
Security for a disruptive world
In this blog, NERI Co-director, Paul Mac Flynn looks at his new NERI InBrief which sets out how the Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland match up compared to our European peers regarding Unemployment Insurance. As the last number of years have shown, we live in very disruptive times. Beyond...
Decent incomes
In this blog and its associated NERI inBrief ( see here) NERI Co-director Tom McDonnell calls for radical reform of welfare policy in order to deliver decent incomes for all. Last week I set out NERI’s view on the urgent need for reform in the areas of productivity and employment. This was in the...