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Transition to Recovery
The NESC Secretariat actively reviewed the latest policy developments and literature related to Covid-19, and monitored events in other countries in key policy areas as they happened.
In March 2020, NESC published Council Report No 149: Addressing Employment Vulnerability as Part of a Just Transition in Ireland. There are lessons from that research that can help Ireland’s transition to recovery post Covid-19. These include committing to the principle that nobody is left behind, committing to data collection and evidence from multiple sources, ensuring the process is participatory, and providing a vision for Ireland as resilient, sustainable, thriving, and net zero. Such a vision can help frame our post-pandemic recovery. The Council’s recommendations emphasise a high-quality jobs economy, targeted funding, and proactively engaging with employees about their skills. The report also focuses on making businesses more resilient by supporting companies which are vulnerable but viable, something that really came to the fore during the Covid-19 emergency.
Building on this, in addition to the Council’s extensive body of research, NESC’s Covid-19 work encompassed a key question: how can Ireland build a resilient recovery and address the wider economic and social implications of the crisis? The NESC Secretariat’s research interests in this area include:
- how the crisis is managed in Ireland and in other countries, the financial and human costs, and lessons that will support the move into a recovery phase;
- if, and how, a differentiated and managed approach to recovery can feed into public health advice which has economic and societal benefits; and
- how a vision of the future can help motivate people in times of uncertainty, and reinforce the desire for a fairer, more inclusive society and economy with a greater focus on supportive public services and quality of life.
Working papers on these topics will appear below:
