News & Events

• NESC publishes Council Report 147: Climate-Change Policy: Getting the Process Right

  • 23 May 2019
  • Topic: Environment, Transport
  • Type: Press Releases

  MEDIA RELEASE ‘Getting the Process Right to Deliver on Climate Change’ There is a growing consensus that ambitious action is needed if we are to stop climate change. Ireland is ready to do more as evident from the efforts of our children and young people, as well as the Oireachtas Joint Committee’s report and ongoing…

• NESC Director Dr Rory O’Donnell speaks at The Vienna Model Seminar: Demography, Migration, Integration and Housing by The Vienna Model: Housing for the 21st Century

  • 8 April 2019
  • Type: News

    NESC ‘s Director Dr. Rory O’Donnell, is speaking at The Vienna Model Seminar: Demography, Migration, Integration and Housing by The Vienna Model: Housing for the 21st Century, today Monday 8th April, 2019 in CHQ, Dublin Docklands, Dublin 1. For more information on this event click here To view the programme click here

• NESC publishes Secretariat Paper on The Framing of Climate Action in Ireland: Strategic Considerations

  • 4 April 2019
  • Topic: Environment
  • Type: News

  Climate change is one of the most pressing issues facing policy-makers today, and Ireland’s record on climate action is widely accepted as being disappointing. Part of the explanation for this lies in the uncertainty about what action Ireland can and should take, and uncertainty about how acceptable any climate action will be to various groups…

• NESC Director Dr Rory O’Donnell speaks on a panel discussion on Creating a Sustainable Rental Sector at the Housing Conference

  • 5 December 2018
  • Type: News

  NESC’s Director Dr Rory O’Donnell is on a panel discussion on Creating a Sustainable Rental Sector at the Housing Conference today Tuesday 4th December 2018, at the Radisson Blu Royal Hotel, Dublin. For more information on this event click here To view the programme click here  

• NESC publishes Secretariat Paper on Multistakeholder Agreements in Climate Governance and Energy Transition

  • 27 November 2018
  • Topic: Energy and renewables
  • Type: News

  This Secretariat paper examines national multistakeholder agreements in energy and climate governance. These refer to negotiated agreements setting out national long-term energy and climate objectives which include a range of stakeholders, from social, economic and environmental actors to political parties. The paper focuses in particular on the 2013 Dutch Energy Agreement between the social partners,…

• NESC publishes secretariat paper on Cost-Benefit Analysis, Environment and Climate Change

  • 15 November 2018
  • Topic: Environment
  • Type: News

  The practice of cost-benefit analysis (CBA) has undergone substantial change in the last two decades, driven by the inclusion of environmental and climate-change considerations. The objective of this paper is to understand these changes and the implications they have for the implementation of CBA to Irish project appraisal. It sets out briefly what CBA is…

• Moving from Welfare to Work

  • 29 June 2018
  • Type: Events

  NESC published its report Moving from Welfare to Work: Low Work Intensity Households and the Quality of Supportive Services, on the 20th June 2018, and to officially launch this report we held a seminar to discuss the report findings and recommendations, on Friday June 29, 2018. Presentations given can be viewed by clicking on the links…

• NESC publishes Council Report 146: Moving from Welfare to Work: Low Work Intensity Households and the Quality of Support Services

  • 20 June 2018
  • Type: Press Releases

  MEDIA RELEASE ‘Focus on households needed to tackle joblessness’ Today’s report from the National Economic and Social Council (NESC), Moving from Welfare to Work, finds that Ireland’s social welfare and employment support system, e.g. Intreo does reasonably well in supporting people into paid work, but there is a need to have a greater focus on…

• 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…