Shifting Foundations: Analysing the Rise and Policy Dilemma of Non-Bank Capital in Irish Real Estate
Read more: Shifting Foundations: Analysing the Rise and Policy Dilemma of Non-Bank Capital in Irish Real EstateThis paper analyses how the retreat of traditional Irish banks after 2008 allowed agile, non-bank capital to become a permanent, dominant force in financing both housing supply and retail mortgages. However, it argues that this shift has fragmented the market, leaving thousands of households uniquely vulnerable to volatile wholesale rate shocks and rigid debt-collection strategies.
- Read more: Family care in Ireland: Carers, recipients and projections of need
The research projects that the need for family care in Ireland will increase by at least 49% by 2040, driven by population ageing. The report examines the characteristics of family carers and care recipients living in the community, as well as future need for family care.
- Read more: Pre-Budget 2027 Report
The report warns that fiscal policy must avoid adding to inflationary pressures, that repeated spending overruns undermine transparency, and that Ireland’s reliance on concentrated corporation tax receipts creates serious risk for the public finances. It also calls for a broader tax base, a credible domestic fiscal rule, and more multi-annual budgeting.
- Read more: AI and Inequality: Spotlight on the Key Issues Affecting Ireland
TASC has published a new report, AI and Inequality: Spotlight on the Key Issues Affecting Ireland. This report “examines who stands to benefit from Ireland’s rapidly expanding digital economy, and who risks being left behind. An estimated 63% of jobs in Ireland are exposed to AI to some degree, with around 30% facing a comparatively…
- Read more: Child Trafficking and ICT-Facilitated Child Trafficking in Ireland
The Irish Human Rights and Equality Commission (IHREC) has launched a new report Child Trafficking and ICT-Facilitated Child Trafficking in Ireland. In the report, the Commission noted that “child trafficking remains significantly under-identified in Ireland, with the number of children formally identified as victims remaining extremely low despite growing evidence of exploitation”.
- Read more: Ireland’s Second European Child Guarantee Interim Report 2024-2025
The European Child Guarantee is an EU initiative that seeks to ensure children at risk of poverty or social exclusion have access to key services such as early childhood learning and care, healthcare, housing, school-based education and healthy school meals. These areas are key to children’s well-being and development and play an important role in…
- Read more: Decision-making regarding transitions to residential care for people with intellectual disabilities
People with intellectual disabilities are living longer often with ageing family caregivers. As needs increase and community services remain limited, families face pressure that can lead to emergency residential placements. This policy brief examines the experiences of people with intellectual disabilities and their family caregivers as they seek residential care in Ireland and makes policy…
- Read more: What gets measured gets funded: are standard evaluation frameworks failing community development work in Ireland?
When community development work struggles to evidence impact, the problem often lies not with the work itself, but with evaluation frameworks designed to measure the wrong things. Through the lens of a long-standing community health project with Travellers, this paper argues for a fundamental shift: recognising that relationships are not a soft feature of this…
- Read more: The Role of Ireland’s Sustainable Energy Communities in the Just Transition
This community-based research explores the role of Sustainable Energy Communities (SECs) in Ireland, revealing the meaningful social impacts they are creating in their localities, despite acute policy and financial challenges. This paper concludes with policy recommendations to harness the full capacity of community energy in Ireland and advance a more just energy transition
- Read more: How does the European Green Deal Enhance Social and Economic Inclusiveness?
This paper explores the European Union’s Green Deal (EGD) growth strategy, social market economy, and climate resilient implementation, drawing on survey data examining the governance and implementation of the EGD across 27 EU Member States. The author examines how Ireland’s deliberative democracy experience could provide essential food for thought to successfully implement EU Green Deal…
