Nuacht & Imeachtaí

• NESC Director Dr Rory O’Donnell speaks on a panel discussion on Creating a Sustainable Rental Sector at the Housing Conference

  • 5 December 2018

  NESC’s Director Dr Rory O’Donnell is on a panel discussion on Creating a Sustainable Rental Sector at the Housing Conference today Tuesday 4th December 2018, at the Radisson Blu Royal Hotel, Dublin. For more information on this event click here To view the programme click here  

• NESC publishes Secretariat Paper on Multistakeholder Agreements in Climate Governance and Energy Transition

  • 27 November 2018

  This Secretariat paper examines national multistakeholder agreements in energy and climate governance. These refer to negotiated agreements setting out national long-term energy and climate objectives which include a range of stakeholders, from social, economic and environmental actors to political parties. The paper focuses in particular on the 2013 Dutch Energy Agreement between the social partners,…

• NESC publishes secretariat paper on Cost-Benefit Analysis, Environment and Climate Change

  • 15 November 2018

  The practice of cost-benefit analysis (CBA) has undergone substantial change in the last two decades, driven by the inclusion of environmental and climate-change considerations. The objective of this paper is to understand these changes and the implications they have for the implementation of CBA to Irish project appraisal. It sets out briefly what CBA is…

• Moving from Welfare to Work

  • 29 June 2018

  NESC published its report Moving from Welfare to Work: Low Work Intensity Households and the Quality of Supportive Services, on the 20th June 2018, and to officially launch this report we held a seminar to discuss the report findings and recommendations, on Friday June 29, 2018. Presentations given can be viewed by clicking on the links…

• NESC publishes Council Report 146: Moving from Welfare to Work: Low Work Intensity Households and the Quality of Support Services

  • 20 June 2018

  MEDIA RELEASE ‘Focus on households needed to tackle joblessness’ Today’s report from the National Economic and Social Council (NESC), Moving from Welfare to Work, finds that Ireland’s social welfare and employment support system, e.g. Intreo does reasonably well in supporting people into paid work, but there is a need to have a greater focus on…

• NESC publishes Council Report 145: Urban Development Land, Housing and Infrastructure: Fixing Ireland’s Broken System

  • 17 May 2018

  MEDIA RELEASE   ‘Fixing Ireland’s Broken Land and Housing System’ The State must drive the provision of housing and urban development.  The Irish housing system is speculative, volatile and expensive. The urban land system is dysfunctional: land is not available in appropriate locations at a cost that will allow affordable housing to be provided.  This…

• NESC Conference – ‘Environmental Data: Priorities and Innovation’

  • 24 April 2018

  In 2014, NESC published ‘Ireland’s Environmental Data:  Inventory, Assessment and Next Steps’ which included a research report from EnvEcon and Flannery Nagel Environmental. The overall aim of the research was to provide a strategic, reflective and probing look at existing environmental data and indicators in Ireland and to explore their future role in the transition towards a low…

• NESC’s Dr. Helen Johnston, chairs the Focus Ireland and the School of Social Work & Social Policy (TCD) – Lecture Series

  • 23 April 2018

  NESC’s Senior Policy Analyst Dr. Helen Johnston is chairing the Focus Ireland and the School of Social Work & Social Policy (TCD), ‘Looking beyond the Homeless Crisis’ Lecture Series with Professor Dennis Culhane (University of Pennsylvania) today Monday 23rd April 2018, 10am – 12:30pm at the Royal Society of Antiquaries, 63 Merrion Square, Dublin 2. Focus Ireland’s “Looking…

• Presentations and discussions available on NESC Policy Workshop: Land Use, Land Value and Urban Development

  • 8 March 2018

  NESC Policy Workshop: Land Use, Land Value and Urban Development took place on the 27th February in The Clock Tower, Department of the Education. The Presentations and discussion questions are available under the events page here Follow #NescLandUse

• Policy Workshop: Land Use, Land Value and Urban Development

  • 7 March 2018

  Ireland’s housing system faces a crisis. While there are many aspects to this crisis, the issue of how to provide affordable rental and/owner occupied housing for growing proportion of the population remains paramount. It is also accepted that Ireland needs to a substantial and sustained increase in the level of investment in public transport particularly…