Northern Ireland's public finances: Fiscal floors and funding adequacy
Northern Ireland is in the dark on our per head funding allocation from the UK Government. We do know however that our current funding per head allocation is below that what we need to provide public services on par with England. There’s been a lot of talk in the media of late about Northern Ireland...
Reframing Fiscal Responsibility: Why getting rid of 'Super-Parity' in Northern Ireland is not the answer
Northern Ireland ministers are facing renewed calls to prove their fiscal responsibility by raising more by getting rid of so-called areas of ‘super parity’. Contrary to what you may have read in newspaper opinion columns, it is the NI Executive and its Programme for Government that should identify...
Presentation from Maynooth University Workshop on Global Wealth Chains and Corporate Taxation
The below presentation is by NERI Co-director, Dr. Tom McDonnell from the Maynooth University Workshop on Global Wealth Chains and Corporate Taxation which took place on 11 January 2024.
12th Annual NERI Labour Market Conference - presentations
The 12th Annual NERI Labour Market Conference in association with the Sociology Department, Maynooth University provided a forum for the presentation of research papers on labour market issues (North and south of Ireland and international). It was held in The Iontas Building, Maynooth University on...
Are our tax and welfare systems fit for purpose?
In this blog NERI Co-director, Dr. Tom McDonnell summarises the main points of his latest NERI Long Read on tax and welfare. Are our tax and welfare systems fit for purpose in the 21st century? Did Budget 2024 actually make any economic sense in the short-term or the long-run? The last week saw a...
Video & Presentation from the NERI Seminar '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 Council. It took place on Wednesday 17 April 2024 at 15.30 in SIPTU, Liberty Hall, Dublin 1...
The battles over corporation tax are not over
In this blog, NERI Co-director, Dr. Tom McDonnell discusses tax receipts from the pharma and ICT sections which are underperforming and may have implications to future Government revenues. Ireland’s corporation tax policy has long been the focus of fierce debate both inside and outside of Ireland...
Invest windfall taxes at home rather than abroad: The Future Ireland Fund will do little to reduce ageing costs
Blog written by Dr. Rory O'Farrell, an economics lecturer at TU Dublin discussing the Future Ireland Fund put forward in Budget 2024. One of the measures put forward in Budget 2024 is the establishment of a €100 billion Future Ireland Fund to pay for ageing costs from 2040 onward. However, despite...
A consequential but flawed budget
The NERI Post Budget Analysis Seminar takes place today at 15:30 in SIPTU, Liberty Hall, details here if you wish to attend. In the blog below, NERI Co-director, Dr. Tom McDonnell offers some thoughts about what was a highly consequential but ultimately flawed budget. Despite its evident flaws...
Building a unitary housing market - Proposals to end Ireland's housing woes
In this latest NERI blog, NERI economist Paul Goldrick-Kelly summarises the main points of the latest NERI Long-Read, co-authored with SIPTU researcher Michael Taft ( @notesonthefront). They argue that Irish housing policy should be redirected from subsidising an inefficient system towards building...