Economic Incentives

Collectively, we find ourselves in the historically unusual position of having a surplus of income over expenditure.  And what is even more ...

A few weeks ago, the CSO published the Q2 2023 update of the non-financial institutional sector accounts . We will use those to check in on ...

A couple of years ago we asked “does Ireland have the lowest per capita consumption of housing in the EU15?”   As the title to this post sug...

To paraphrase a former Taoiseach, as a community we are living away within our means. This can be represented using the recently published Q...

Around a month ago, Oxfam issued its annual missive on wealth inequality.  Each year it is designed to generate headlines and this year Oxfa...

The last post used the sector accounts to give the steps that led to there being €166 billion of gross national savings in 2021. Here we w...

The CSO have published the Q2 2022 update of the institutional sector accounts.  They continue to show a strong performance for the househol...

Ireland’s national balance sheet has gross amounts and a volatility that is not seen in the figures for most other countries.  The gross amo...

The CSO have published the Q4 2021 Non-Financial Institutional Sector Accounts .  These give preliminary full-year figures for 2021 though r...

It's not just household-level data such as the SILC where our approaches to the provision of social housing present measurement issues....

Eurostat have 2020 figures for Ireland to the EU-SILC, the EU’s Statistics on Income and Living Conditions.  Ireland is one of the last coun...