Dr. Matthew Donoghue[a][b] ‘Resilience’, both in public discourse and public policy, has become somewhat ubiquitous. We are constantly encouraged to build our resilience. We are told of how economies must become resilient to the inevitable shocks associated with an unstable world. Rating agencies directly assess economies’ resilience through debt stress-testing. Communities and regions across the…
Continue Reading ...
Dermot O’Doherty[a], Donncha Kavanagh[b] and Michael Fitzgibbon[c][d] FORESIGHT – A SIGNIFICANT INPUT TO POLICY The coronavirus pandemic has brought an acute shock to the global economy. The immediate challenge for governments is to start the process of economic recovery while protecting the health of citizens. The pandemic also poses fundamental longer-term questions about what societies…
Continue Reading ...
Diane Pelly[a], Liam Delaney[b] and Orla Doyle[c] [d] Executive Summary COVID-19 has forced large numbers of workers to switch to homeworking. This report uses primary longitudinal data from two surveys of 808 full-time workers in the UK which were conducted before and during the period of COVID-19 restrictions. It examines the impact of the pandemic…
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 ...
Mathew Creighton[a], Daniel Capristrano[b], Agnieszka Sorokowska[c] and Piotr Sorokowska[d][e] Abstract: Subsequent to the arrival of SARS-CoV-2 and emergence of COVID-19, policy to limit the further spread has focused on increasing distance between individuals when interacting, termed social distancing, and limiting the frequency of interaction by preventing non-essential and large-scale social gatherings. This work offers cross-cultural…
Continue Reading ...
Liam Delaney and Emma Watson The emergence of the covid pandemic in Ireland in late February led to an unprecedented need to change human behaviour across the whole population in a very short period of time. Recommendations from the ECDC and WHO stress the need for physical distancing, hand hygiene, cough and sneeze etiquette, and…
Continue Reading ...
Donal de Buitléir It is now clear that the costs of the Covid 19 crisis will be very high perhaps up to €30 billion or almost 10% of GDP. How can we pay for this? In its latest Quarterly Bulletin the Central Bank projected that the general government balance will move from an estimated surplus…
Continue Reading ...
Leonhard K. Lades[a][b], Kate Laffan[c], Michael Daly[d] and Liam Delaney[e][f] Abstract The COVID-19 outbreak has become one of the largest public health crises of our time. Governments have responded by implementing self-isolation and physical distancing measures that have profoundly impacted daily life throughout the world. In this study, we surveyed how an Irish sample experience…
Continue Reading ...
Michael Fitzgibbon[a], Donncha Kavanagh[b], Camilla Noonan[c] and Dermot O’Doherty[d][e] Executive Summary Over the past decade or so there have been many radical changes in the Irish national system of innovation and how it is administered. To some extent these administrative changes were a consequence of the financial crisis and the subsequent need to control public…
Continue Reading ...
Johnston, H. and McGauran, A.M. Introduction [1] In Ireland, the percentage of people living in households where no-one is working or where there is only marginal attachment to the labour force is higher than in most other European countries. Eurostat data show that in 2016 in Ireland 11.6 per cent of adults aged 18-59 lived…
Continue Reading ...
UCD Geary Institute for Public Policy, Belfield, Dublin 4. D04 N9Y1
tel: +353 1 7164615 | email: publicpolicy@ucd.ie