The recent debacle surrounding the Covid-19 vaccine has highlighted the capacity of corporate transactions to undermine Governments and put critical services such as public health at risk. When…
The Central Bank issued its quarterly Residential Mortgage Arrears & Repossession Statistics report for Q3 2020. An analysis of this data…
Over-housed or Over-crowded?
Eurostat data suggests that almost seven in ten people in Ireland are over-accommodated, that is, living in housing that is too large for their…
The study by the LSE's International Inequalities Institute ‘The Economic Consequences of Major Tax Cuts for the Rich’ uses data from 18 OECD countries covering the last fifty years to investigate…
The Planning and Development, and Residential Tenancies, Act 2020 extended the moratorium on tenant evictions in certain circumstances, however the provisions disapplying this protection on the…
A total of 657,076 people were either on the live register or in receipt of the Pandemic Unemployment Payment (PUP) in the last week of January 2021 according to the latest release by the CSO.…
The Joint Declaration by the Ministers of the EPSCO Council* ‘Overcoming poverty and social exclusion – mitigating the impact of COVID-19 on families – working together to develop prospects for…
The Parliamentary Budget Office (PBO) has just released an analysis of some of the key metrics of the Vacant Site Levy for the third quarter of 2020.
The Urban Regeneration and Housing Act…
According to the latest data published by the CSO, €2.4 billion was not collected by the Exchequer due to direct subsidies and revenue foregone due to preferential tax treatment supported fossil…
The detail in 'Irish Health Survey 2019 - Persons with a Disability' is based on self-reported data from persons aged 15 years and over who experience certain physical and sensory difficulties and…