News & Events

• NESC publishes Council Report 145: Urban Development Land, Housing and Infrastructure: Fixing Ireland’s Broken System

  • 17 May 2018
  • Type: Press Releases

  MEDIA RELEASE   ‘Fixing Ireland’s Broken Land and Housing System’ The State must drive the provision of housing and urban development.  The Irish housing system is speculative, volatile and expensive. The urban land system is dysfunctional: land is not available in appropriate locations at a cost that will allow affordable housing to be provided.  This…

• NESC Conference – ‘Environmental Data: Priorities and Innovation’

  • 24 April 2018
  • Type: Events

  In 2014, NESC published ‘Ireland’s Environmental Data:  Inventory, Assessment and Next Steps’ which included a research report from EnvEcon and Flannery Nagel Environmental. The overall aim of the research was to provide a strategic, reflective and probing look at existing environmental data and indicators in Ireland and to explore their future role in the transition towards a low…

• NESC’s Dr. Helen Johnston, chairs the Focus Ireland and the School of Social Work & Social Policy (TCD) – Lecture Series

  • 23 April 2018
  • Type: News

  NESC’s Senior Policy Analyst Dr. Helen Johnston is chairing the Focus Ireland and the School of Social Work & Social Policy (TCD), ‘Looking beyond the Homeless Crisis’ Lecture Series with Professor Dennis Culhane (University of Pennsylvania) today Monday 23rd April 2018, 10am – 12:30pm at the Royal Society of Antiquaries, 63 Merrion Square, Dublin 2. Focus Ireland’s “Looking…

• Presentations and discussions available on NESC Policy Workshop: Land Use, Land Value and Urban Development

  • 8 March 2018
  • Type: News

  NESC Policy Workshop: Land Use, Land Value and Urban Development took place on the 27th February in The Clock Tower, Department of the Education. The Presentations and discussion questions are available under the events page here Follow #NescLandUse

• Policy Workshop: Land Use, Land Value and Urban Development

  • 7 March 2018
  • Type: Press Releases

  Ireland’s housing system faces a crisis. While there are many aspects to this crisis, the issue of how to provide affordable rental and/owner occupied housing for growing proportion of the population remains paramount. It is also accepted that Ireland needs to a substantial and sustained increase in the level of investment in public transport particularly…

• Policy Workshop: Land Use, Land Value and Urban Development

  • 7 March 2018
  • Type: Events

  Ireland’s housing system faces a crisis. While there are many aspects to this crisis, the issue of how to provide affordable rental and/owner occupied housing for growing proportion of the population remains paramount. It is also accepted that Ireland needs to a substantial and sustained increase in the level of investment in public transport particularly…

• Appointments of Independent Members to the National Economic and Social Council

  • 31 January 2018
  • Type: News

  Appointments of Independent Members to the National Economic and Social Council are being sought by the Taoiseach. Applications are invited, via StateBoards.ie, from suitably qualified people who will contribute to the work of the Council.

• NESC Dr. Helen Johnston, gives a response at the joint Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection and ESRI conference today

  • 31 January 2018
  • Type: News

  NESC Senior Policy Analyst, Dr. Helen Johnston gives a response at the joint Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection and ESRI national conference today in ESRI, Whitaker Square, Sir John Rogerson’s Quay, Dublin 2. The Department of Employment Affairs & Social Protection along with the Economic and Social Research Institute are organising a national…

• NESC publishes Secretariat Paper No 12: Reflections on Infrastructure Policy and Institutional Developments in the UK

  • 22 November 2017
  • Type: News

  NESC publishes research carried out by Senior Policy Analyst, Dr. Damian Thomas and NESC’s Director Dr. Rory O’Donnell. This paper describes and reflects on the evolution of the UK’s approach to infrastructure policy and planning. The purpose is to help inform the development of Irish infrastructure policy as we return to higher levels of investment. The paper focuses…

• NESC publishes Council Report 144: Moving Towards the Circular Economy in Ireland

  • 25 October 2017
  • Type: Press Releases

  MEDIA RELEASE NESC Launch: Conversations on the Circular Economy in Ireland  12.01am, Wednesday 25th October 2017 ‘More Action is Needed to Boost the Circular Economy in Ireland’ Today’s report from the National Economic and Social Council (NESC), Moving Towards the Circular Economy in Ireland, finds that there is momentum in circular economy practices in Ireland,…