News and Archive | Public Policy, Public Expenditure & GNP

Is Ireland’s Tax System Progressive ?
— 24 May 2022

In his opinion column on 29 September Fintan O’Toole asserts that the claim that Ireland’s tax system
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Reflections on 6 Years of Public Policy
— 26 Mar 2018

The time has come for us to close our doors as our funding from Atlantic Philanthropies has been exhausted.
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Underemployed Part-time Workers
— 23 Mar 2018

Employment increased by almost 70,000 (3.1%) in the year to Q4 2017. Over 115,000 part-time workers would
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Ireland’s Productivity
— 21 Mar 2018

Irish-owned firms are suffering from low productivity growth. To deal with this, the OECD recommends
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Switching to Electric Vehicles
— 14 Mar 2018

The government has set an ambitious target to have 500,000 electric vehicles (EVs) on the road by 2030.
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Social Housing – Some Data
— 7 Mar 2018

The main categories in need of social housing in Dublin are those in single person households, the unemployed
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Taxing Petrol And Diesel
— 21 Feb 2018

Under the polluter pays principle, tax rates on diesel & petrol fuels should be at a rate which is commensurate
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Local Authority Budgets In 2018
— 14 Feb 2018

Local Authorities plan to spend almost €4.8 billion in 2018. See your Council’s spending on LocalAuthorityFinances.com
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What Should We Do About Local Property Tax?
— 7 Feb 2018

Valuations for Local Property Tax are due to be revised in 2019. This note sets out some of the issues
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Social Protection Spending 2016
— 1 Feb 2018

€19.87 billion was spent on social protection payments in 2016. There were 1.39m recipients of weekly
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Labour Activation Programmes
— 23 Jan 2018

The number of people on labour activation programmes has fallen by over 25 per cent or 24,000 in the
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