NERI Post Budget 2022 Commentary webinar
The NERI Post Budget 2022 Commentary took place as a Zoom webinar on Wednesday 20th October, 2021 at 15:00. Speakers: Michael Taft (SIPTU), Michelle Murphy (Social Justice Ireland) & Gerard Brady...
A steady-as-she-goes budget
In this week's blog by NERI Co-director Dr. Tom McDonnell, he discusses the outcomes of Budget 2022. Budget 2022 was a place-holder budget. It clearly wasn’t a fire-fighting budget in the vein of Budget 2021, but nor was it a truly post-pandemic budget either. For example, the EWSS will be retained...
The NERI Economic Report, Presentation to the FSU
The NERI Co-director, Dr. Tom McDonnell made a presentation to the FSU today on the state of the economy.
Presentation and Video from 'Options for raising tax revenue in Ireland' webinar
The NERI webinar 'Options for raising tax revenue in Ireland' took place as a Zoom webinar on Wednesday 24th November, 2021 at 15:00. Barra Roantree, ESRI made the presentation. Abstract: Even before the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic, an aging population, an overreliance on corporation tax...
Don’t expect a transformative budget
In this week's blog by NERI Co-director Dr. Tom McDonnell, he discusses Budget 2022. Next Tuesday’s budget will take place in a very different context to last year’s one. Last year’s firefighting budget was all about preserving the economy’s productive capacity by as much as possible against the...
NERI Webinar: Post Budget 2022 commentary - presentations and video
The NERI Post Budget 2022 Commentary took place as a Zoom webinar on Wednesday 20th October, 2021 at 15:00. The details of the webinar were as follows: Date & Time: Wednesday 20th October, 2021 at 15:00 Topic: Post Budget 2022 Commentary Speakers: Michael Taft (SIPTU), Michelle Murphy (Social...
Was a tax increase necessary? Analysis of the UK Governments decision to increase National Insurance Contributions
Authors: Paul Mac Flynn & Lisa Wilson The Prime Minister Boris Johnson announced a significant hike in National Insurance Contributions on Tuesday. One of the more surprising claims to have surfaced from the commentary of many policy analysts is that this tax hike, alongside those announced earlier...
NERI comment - UK Government proposals fall short of significant changes needed
The proposals announced by the UK government today will see national insurance contributions for employers and employees rise by 1.25% each. It is proposed that the revenue from these changes will provide a short-term funding boost for the NHS and a longer-term funding commitment to social care...
9th NERI Annual Dónal Nevin Lecture - Options for Fiscal Devolution in Northern Ireland
The 9th Annual NERI Dónal Nevin Lecture was hosted in association with Queens Management School, Queen's University Belfast. Title: Options for Fiscal Devolution in Northern Ireland Keynote Speaker: Paul Johnson, Director of Institute for Fiscal Studies & Chair of Independent Fiscal Commission...
The recovery is coming but there can be no going back to the old economic model
This weeks blog is by NERI Co-director, Dr Tom McDonnell, it is an article that he wrote for the Irish Examiner on 12 July 2021. The pandemic has changed the future direction of the economy with the speeding up of remote working and digitalisation. The economy is on the cusp of a rapid and sustained...