Budget Perspectives 2024

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

Three new ESRI papers will be launched at this event: 

  • Removing cliff-edges from the taxation and welfare systems
  • Housing tenure, health, and public healthcare coverage in Ireland
  • Extending the National Childcare Scheme to childminders

Programme

9:00

Registration opens

9.30

Opening remarks

9.35

Address

John McCarthy (Chief Economist, Department of Finance)

10.05

Removing cliff-edges from the taxation and welfare systems

Michael Doolan and Claire Keane (ESRI)

10.40

Minimum Income Support Systems as Elements of Crisis Resilience in Europe

Werner Eichhorst (IZA Institute of Labor Economics)

11.15

Coffee break

11.35

Housing Tenure, Health, and Public Healthcare Coverage in Ireland

Harry Humes, Michelle Barrett and Brendan Walsh (ESRI)

12.10

Extending the National Childcare Scheme to childminders

Karina Doorley, Dora Tuda and Luke Duggan (ESRI)

12.45

Closing remarks

12.50

Close