Key Point: Over the last decade life-expectancy in Ireland has increased by 2 years for women and 3 years for men since 2008: women living to 84 years and men to 80 years in 2018. Notwithstanding the dramatic rise in life-expectancy across the EU over the last number of decades, there has been a slowdown…
Continue Reading ...
Key Point: In 2020 the Local Property Tax (LPT) yield amounted to €488 million. Between the years 2015 and 2020, 21 Local Authorities experienced funding deficits and required equalisation funding. The level of equalisation funding allocated to LAs in 2020 amounted to just over €135m: representing an increase of €33m or 32% from €102m in…
Continue Reading ...
Key Point: In 2018, total greenhouse gas emissions in Ireland amounted to over 60,900 kilotonne (kt) Co2 equivalents: representing a decrease of almost 6,600 or 9.7% from almost 67,500 kt Co2 eq in 2008. The largest contributor to greenhouse gas emissions came from the energy sector: accounting for 36,600 kt Co2 eq or 60% of…
Continue Reading ...
Key Point: In 2019, Consultants and Non-Consultant Hospital Doctors account for over 10,000 or 8% of the total workforce in the public health system. Since 2015, the number of serving Consultants has increased by almost 530 to 3,250 in 2019, while the total number of NCHDs also increased by almost 1,000 to 6,860. Despite the…
Continue Reading ...
Key Point[a]: Tax revenue fell substantially during the Great Recession: decreasing by €15bn or 33% from €47bn in 2007 to a low point of €32bn in 2010. As the economy stabilised after 2011, tax revenues also recovered at an annual average rate of 7% per year – reaching almost €60bn in 2019. As a share…
Continue Reading ...
Key Point: In 2019 Irish income tax revenue accounted for €23 billion or 40% of total tax receipts. Taxation of labour income accounts for the greatest share of total income tax receipts: with Pay As You Earn (PAYE) and the Universal Social Charge (USC) amounting to €16 bn and €4 bn respectively in 2019. At…
Continue Reading ...
Mike Hynes[a] and Patrick Malone[b] Abstract: Moves towards decarbonising the Irish economy must focus strongly on reducing car dependence, particularly in our cities and towns. Car dependence is also costly in terms of social and economic externalities. Public transport is a system that allows groups of individuals travel together on designed routes, often for a…
Continue Reading ...
Key Point: During the Great Recession and its aftermath, provision of social housing by Local Authorities (LA) and Approved Housing Bodies (AHB)[a] fell sharply. In 2007, the combined provision by LA’s and AHB’s was 8,673. However, this traditional supply of social housing fell dramatically, to less than 760 units in 2013 and 2014. In more…
Continue Reading ...
Graduate Outcomes Survey: Class of 2018 is now available from the Higher Education Authority HERE
Continue Reading ...
Quarterly Economic Commentary, Summer 2020 is now available from the ESRI HERE
Continue Reading ...
UCD Geary Institute for Public Policy, Belfield, Dublin 4. D04 N9Y1
tel: +353 1 7164615 | email: publicpolicy@ucd.ie