Nuacht & Imeachtaí

• NESC Attends Annual Meeting of ESCs in Warsaw, Poland

  • 1 July 2025
  • Topic: , European Union

  Noel Cahill, centre middle, with fellow representatives of the individual Councils and the EESC.   Last week our Economist Noel Cahill travelled to Warsaw to represent NESC Ireland at the Annual Meeting of the Economic and Social Councils of the EU, and of the European Economic and Social Committee (EESC). Noel and the representatives of…

• NESC at the Annual Event for the All Island Climate & Biodiversity Research Network

  • 12 June 2025

  NESC Policy Analyst Dr Jeanne Moore recently participated in the All Island Climate & Biodiversity Research Network’s annual event, “From Gaps to Greenways: Research for Biodiversity Policy” on 29th May. Following introductions from Professor Yvonne Buckley, TCD and Amy Taggart from AICBRN, Dr Moore took part in a panel discussion on biodiversity as well as…

• “More Viable Routes to Market for Offshore Wind Are Central to Ireland’s Transition” – NESC at Annual WEI Offshore Industry Conference

  • 29 May 2025

  Kate Garth (RWE Renewables), Cathal FitzGerald (NESC), Pauline Fournols (WindEurope), Damien Clarke (DECC), and Wadia Fruergaard (Vestas) “Ireland’s energy transition will only be realised when a market effectively connects consumers (who are willing and able to pay) and developers (who are able to supply) with viable projects” – this was a key message from NESC…

• Council Report No.168, ‘Deepening Compact Growth in Ireland’ – Major benefits to compact growth but factors working against it

  • 6 May 2025

  More investment needed to unlock land suited for compact growth. Facilitate more use of corner sites, gardens, backlands, and mews developments. Review codes, regulations, and incentives that affect brownfield development. The first goal of the recently published Draft National Planning Framework (NPF) is compact growth. NESC has published a new report, Deepening Compat Growth in…

• Academic Research Key to Clearing the “Fog” of Energy Transition

  • 30 April 2025

  Energy Transition Policy Panel: Daire McCoy (Ofgem), Niall Farrell (ESRI), Lisa Ryan (Chair, UCD), Franklin Amuakwa-Mensah (EfD), Cathal FitzGerald (NESC), and Fergal McParland (DECC)   Researchers in higher education institutes can address the knowledge gaps identified by NESC in Ireland’s energy transition policy. This was a key message delivered by Dr Cathal FitzGerald, Senior Analyst,…

• NESC report shows Action is Needed Now to “Clear the Fog” and Progress Ireland’s Energy Transition

  • 18 April 2025
  • Topic: , Energy and renewables

  Much of Ireland’s policy for transition in the power sector is headed ‘into fog’. Key actors are not ‘on the same page’ from a strategic standpoint. Actions must be taken now, next, and later to reinforce Ireland’s energy transition and economic resilience, and to help us reach our national decarbonisation potential.   18 April 2025,…

• ‘Policy must be seen to be able to address structural challenges’ – NESC Remarks to the EESC on 15/4/25

  • 16 April 2025
  • Topic: , Social

  The NESC Secretariat told a meeting of the European Economic and Social Committee (EESC) that more work is needed to address infrastructure and services deficits, to manage transitions, and to ultimately improve the lived experiences of people. On 15th April, the Section for Economic and Monetary Union and Economic and Social Cohesion (ECO) of the…

• NESC at the ‘Finding Common Ground’ Festival on 9/4/25

  • 10 April 2025

    On Wednesday, 9th April 2025, NESC Senior Policy Analyst Niamh Garvey participated in a panel discussion on opportunities for land use change. The input drew on NESC’s Report No.162, Just Transition in Agriculture and Land Use, in addition to its participation in Phase 2 of the Land Use Review.   The event was part…

• NESC Publishes Its Statement of Strategy for 2025-2028

  • 27 March 2025

  Today NESC is publishing its new Strategy Statement for 2025-2028 – click here to take a look! Work began on this Statement of Strategy in 2024, with an aim to targeting challenges in key areas and making our work processes as smooth, efficient and effective as possible. It was informed by feedback from both the…

• Covid-19: Five Years On – A Look Back at NESC’s Policy Lessons from the Pandemic

  • 11 March 2025

  Today marks the fifth anniversary of the declaration by the World Health Organisation (WHO) that the novel coronavirus (Covid-19) outbreak was a global pandemic – 11th March 2020. Two years after that declaration, in 2022, the National Economic and Social Council published its report The Covid-19 Pandemic: Lessons for Irish Public Policy. This piece of…