Budget Perspectives 2024

Budget Perspectives is an annual conference to discuss policy issues related to the national Budget.

Three new ESRI papers were launched at this event: 

Programme

9:00

Registration opens

9.30

Opening remarks

Professor Alan Barrett (ESRI Director)

9.35

Address

John McCarthy (Chief Economist, Department of Finance)

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10.05

Removing cliff-edges from the taxation and welfare systems

Michael Doolan and Claire Keane (ESRI)

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10.40

Minimum Income Support Systems as Elements of Crisis Resilience in Europe

Werner Eichhorst (IZA Institute of Labor Economics)

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11.15

Coffee break

11.35

Housing Tenure, Health, and Public Healthcare Coverage in Ireland

Harry Humes, Michelle Barrett and Brendan Walsh (ESRI)

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12.10

Extending the National Childcare Scheme to childminders

Karina Doorley, Dora Tuda and Luke Duggan (ESRI)

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12.45

Closing remarks

12.50

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