Exploring Developments in the Irish Housing and Mortgage Market

Speakers addressed issues such as current and future house price movements, affordability in the housing market, social housing, and current regulatory developments in the mortgage market. Eoghan Murphy, TD, Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government, opened the conference.

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Conference Programme

Introduction

09.00

Welcome

Professor Alan Barrett, Director, ESRI

9:05

Opening Address

Eoghan Murphy,TD, Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government

Session 1

Developments in the Irish Housing Market

09.30

Macroeconomic Developments in the Irish Housing Market

Kieran McQuinn (ESRI) 

10.00

Housing Affordability in Ireland

Conor O’Toole and Rachel Slaymaker (ESRI)

10.30

Tea/Coffee

SESSION 2

Mortgage Market and Social Housing

11.00

Mortgage Market Finance and Regulatory Developments

  Trevor Fitzpatrick (Central Bank of Ireland)

11:30

Social Housing in the Irish Housing Market.

Dorothy Watson (ESRI)

Eoin Corrigan (Department of Housing, Planning and Local Government)

SESSION 3

Roundtable discussion

12:00

Participants

Michelle Norris, Head of the School of the School of Social Policy, Social Work and Social Justice University College Dublin

David Duffy, Director, Property Industry Ireland

David Walsh, Assistant Secretary for the Planning, Land Management and Housing Market Policy Division, Department of Housing, Planning and Local Government

David Silke, Director of Research and Corporate Affairs at the Housing Agency

12:50

Closing Remarks