ESRI - Department of the Taoiseach conference - Research on a Shared Island

The Taoiseach, Micheál Martin TD, will deliver the keynote address and launch the report ‘Sharing the Island: Economic and Social Challenges and Opportunities: Evidence from an ESRI Research Programme’. 

The conference will also feature a panel discussion on the ESRI-Shared Island report ‘Economic Overview of Ireland and Northern Ireland’.

This event marks four years of the joint research programme between the Economic and Social Research Institute and the Department of Taoiseach’s Shared Island Unit. 

The programme has produced 16 research reports to date adding to understanding of current and potential linkages across the island of Ireland in a range of economic, social and environmental domains, and providing a stronger evidence base and analysis of the whole island, as an input for public and political discussions on building a shared future. 

Full details of all reports published under the programme can be found here.

Conference Programme to follow 

Registration is now full, please contact louise.creagh@esri.ie for further assistance.

Programme

Research on a Shared Island Economic and Social Research Institute - Department of the Taoiseach conference

9.45

Registration

10.45

Welcome and opening remarks by ESRI Director, Alan Barrett

10.50

Keynote address by Taoiseach, Micheál Martin TD

11.00

Discussion between Taoiseach and ESRI Director

11.15

Presentation of ‘Economic Overview of Ireland and Northern Ireland

Adele Bergin and Seamus McGuinness (ESRI research authors)

11.30

Panel and Q&A discussion

John Turner, Professor of Finance and Financial History, Queen’s University 

Fergal O’Brien, Executive Director of Lobbying and Influence, Ibec

Dr. Loretta O’Sullivan, Chief Economist and Partner, EY Ireland

12.10

Break

12.25

Presentation of ‘Sharing the Island: Economic and Social Challenges and Opportunities: Evidence from an ESRI Research Programme’

Fran McGinnity and Emer Smyth (ESRI research authors)

12.45

Panel and Q&A discussion

Deirdre Heenan, Professor of Social Policy, Ulster University

Anne Looney, Executive Dean of the Institute of Education, DCUStephen Farry,

Professor of Strategic Policy in Practice, Ulster UniversityOwen Reidy, General

Secretary of the Irish Congress of Trade Unions

13.30

Closing remarks by ESRI Director

13.35

Networking lunch

14.20

Event concludes