This report – funded by the Community Foundation for Ireland – explores the issue of energy poverty and deprivation in Ireland, once again to the forefront of the policy debate given recent increases in energy prices. Chapter ...

Future spending pressures combined with potential declines in corporation and motor tax receipts mean that significant future tax increases are likely to be needed in the years ahead. While these should be avoided until ...

Rental affordability challenges for low-to-moderate income groups have been well documented. Changes to housing supports in recent years, notably the rapid expansion of Housing Assistance Payment (HAP), aim to address ...

This report is the second from an ESRI research programme funded by The Community Foundation for Ireland, which seeks to address gaps in our knowledge and understanding of poverty, income inequality and living standards ...

This report is the third from an ESRI research programme funded by Community Foundation Ireland, which seeks to address gaps in our knowledge and understanding of poverty, income inequality and living standards in Ireland. ...

Ireland is an outlier among EU countries as it does not have a strong link between previous earnings and the level of payment provided to those who have recently lost their job or are on leave from work for the short- ...

Using micro data from the Central Statistics Office (CSO) Household Budget Survey (HBS), we assess the effect of the COVID-19 pandemic on consumption and its implications for indirect tax receipts in 2020. We show that ...

In recent years, Ireland has experienced a notable decline in homeownership and a rise in the proportion of households in private rental accommodation. Concurrently, the cost of both rents and house prices have risen ...

In this article, we assess the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on unemployment in Ireland and estimate how family incomes have changed as a result of increased unemployment, calibrated to administrative sources for ...

This report provides an in-depth analysis of wage, earnings and income trends and inequalities in Ireland over a three-decade period, spanning from 1987 to 2019. One of the significant findings of this research is the ...