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...
Tax and welfare needs a proper conversation – Are we starting to have it?
In this blog, NERI Co-director, Dr. Tom McDonnell discusses the Commission on Taxation and Welfare's independent review of the tax and welfare system called 'Foundations for the Future'. The Commission on Taxation and Welfare (the Commission), of which I was a member, launched its independent review...
NERI Submission to the Select Committee on Budgetary Oversight - Examination of Taxation on Wealth and Assets: How they Work and Could be Evolved in Ireland
NERI Submission by NERI Co-director, Dr. Tom McDonnell to the Select Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Examination of Taxation on Wealth and Assets: How they Work and Could be Evolved in Ireland (30 June 2023).
The Budget 2024: NERI Post Budget Analysis Seminar - presentations
The Budget 2024: NERI Post Budget analysis seminar took place in SIPTU, Liberty Hall, Dublin 1 on Thursday 12 October 2023 from 15:30 - 16:30. The details were as follows: Title: "Budget 2024: Post Budget Analysis". Speakers: Michael Taft (SIPTU), Dr. Tricia Keilthy (St Vincent de Paul) and Dr. Rory...
Government Should Abandon Populist Tax Cuts and Procyclical Budgets
In this blog the NERI Co-director, Dr. Tom McDonnell argues for a countercyclical budget and cautions against using the potentially transitory corporation tax windfalls to fund tax cuts or day-to-day spending. The Irish economy is in an unusual place. It’s been buffeted by Brexit, by the shock and...
11th Annual NERI Labour Market Conference – presentations, photos &videos
The 11th Annual NERI Labour Market Conference in association with Queen’s Management School at Queen’s University Belfast provided a forum for the presentation of research papers on labour market issues (North & South of Ireland & international). The event took place in Queen’s Management School at...
We need change at Westminster before we solve Northern Ireland’s troubled public finances
In this blog, NERI Co-director Paul Mac Flynn discusses the state of Northern Ireland's public finances. Northern Ireland’s public finances are in a very sorry state. Without a devolved government, senior civil servants are forced to plan cuts in public expenditure, larger in scale than anything...