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Seanad: Housing Commission Report: Motion (29 May 2024) See 1 other result from this debate

Mary Fitzpatrick: ...than one-third of all new housing supply planned under Housing for All; - the Government is currently reviewing its housing targets, which will be primarily informed by independent, peer-reviewed research and modelling by the ESRI on population and long-run housing demand projections, with revised targets, providing for current and future demand, due to be published in the autumn; and...

Seanad: Employment Permits Bill 2022: Report and Final Stages (28 May 2024)

Alice-Mary Higgins: ...to re-enter and reapply, we are almost the point where a person is dependent on the good wishes of an employer to hire them again and again. That can create a troubling power dynamic. IHREC and the ESRI report monitoring decent work identified key dimensions, namely access to work, adequate warnings, employee voice, security and stability of voice, equality of opportunity and treatment...

Seanad: Automatic Enrolment Retirement Savings System Bill 2024: Second Stage (28 May 2024)

Michael McDowell: ...suggest that rather than simply relying on the view of the Pensions Council, the Government should pause this legislation and ask some group, such as the Economic and Social Research Institute, ESRI, to carry out an evaluation of the Fagan-Kenny approach as compared with the approach favoured and now being adopted by the Pensions Council. Let us have a body like the ESRI take a long hard...

Business Support Package: Statements (Resumed) (23 May 2024)

Catherine Connolly: ...that it will happen, but it is being done as an election trick rather than in terms of could be done for small businesses. As far back as 2020, a report told us that businesses were struggling. An ESRI working paper from January 2022 referred to the financial distress of small and medium enterprises. These problems have been there for a long time. Rather than short-term and...

Business Support Package: Statements (23 May 2024)

Peter Burke: ...for SMEs to access information on the wide range of Government business supports. We are implementing an enhanced SME test by the Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment in conjunction with the Department of the Taoiseach. We are also reviewing ESRI research on the impact of statutory sick leave before deciding on any further increases and reviewing the roadmap for increasing...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (23 May 2024)

Mick Barry: ...that the number of statutory sick leave days would rise next January from five to seven, and again in January 2026 from seven to ten days. However, the Minister has stated that he will review the ESRI research on the impact of statutory sick leave before deciding on any further increases. This is a broken promise to more than 1 million workers. The Government is downgrading a definite...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (23 May 2024)

Darragh O'Brien: ...regarding revised targets, I have always said we would publish revised targets once we had the work of the Housing Commission, which we have now, and assessed it properly and the work of the ESRI. It will be this autumn. Any target we have set heretofore was a floor, not a ceiling. In the first two years of Housing for All, we exceeded our targets substantially. Since this Government...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Employment Rights (23 May 2024) See 3 other results from this debate

Emer Higgins: ...to have regard to the potential impact of making an order to vary the number of sick days. For that reason, the Minister, Peter Burke, the Minister of State, Dara Calleary, and I have asked the ESRI to provide data so we can make an evidence-based, informed decision because that is what responsible decision-making looks like. We know businesses are struggling and that is why last week...

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Business Supports (23 May 2024)

Peter Burke: ...National Enterprise Hub for SMEs to access information on the wide range of Government business supports Implementing an enhanced ‘SME Test’ by the Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment in conjunction with the Department of An Taoiseach Reviewing forthcoming ESRI research on the impact of Statutory Sick Leave before deciding on any further increases Reviewing the...

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Business Supports (23 May 2024)

Peter Burke: ...National Enterprise Hub for SMEs to access information on the wide range of Government business supports Implementing an enhanced ‘SME Test’ by the Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment in conjunction with the Department of An Taoiseach Reviewing forthcoming ESRI research on the impact of Statutory Sick Leave before deciding on any further increases Reviewing the...

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Legislative Process (23 May 2024)

Peter Burke: ...on whether these rates should be retained, amended or removed. The Low Pay Commission conducted an in-depth review of sub-minimum rates, and commissioned the Economic and Social Research Institute, ESRI, to conduct background research on the issue, under the terms of the Low Pay Commission and ESRI Research Partnership Agreement. This ESRI report “Sub-minimum wages in...

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Business Supports (23 May 2024)

Peter Burke: ...Enterprise Hub for SMEs to access information on the wide range of Government business supports; Implementing an enhanced ‘SME Test’ by the Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment in conjunction with the Department of An Taoiseach; Reviewing forthcoming ESRI research on the impact of Statutory Sick Leave before deciding on any further increases; Reviewing the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: All-Island Economy: Discussion (Resumed) (23 May 2024) See 4 other results from this debate

Fergus O'Dowd: ...to working with him over the time that remains, be that long or short. On behalf of the committee, I welcome Professor John Doyle, vice-president of research at DCU, and our two witnesses from the ESRI, Dr. Adele Bergin, associate research professor, and Professor Seamus McGuinness, research professor. We are continuing our meetings on finance and economics and resuming our discussions...

Housing Situation: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (21 May 2024) See 1 other result from this debate

Malcolm Noonan: ...end of 2025. We hear much commentary about housing targets being too low. Housing for All is an evidence-based living policy that is agile by design. It is under continuous review and when the research currently being undertaken by the ESRI is presented to the Government, the targets set out in Housing for All will be updated. The Taoiseach reiterated this earlier today. Setting the...

Housing Situation: Motion [Private Members] (21 May 2024)

Alan Dillon: ...that will allow us to continue to ramp up delivery for the coming years as the pipeline of affordable housing delivery is developed and expanded by local authorities, approved housing bodies and the Land Development Agency. In anticipation of the review of the national planning framework and the updating of the housing needs and demands assessment by the ESRI, based on the updates of...

Housing for All: Statements (Resumed) (21 May 2024)

Alan Dillon: ...the findings of census 2022, is well advanced. The evidence base underpinning this work must be robust and transparent and will be informed by independent peer-reviewed research which has been carried out by the ESRI. It is clear the new targets will likely be considerably higher than the current targets. It is also clear that to achieve these targets, we must continue to build on the...

Housing for All: Statements (21 May 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: ...meet future housing needs arising from population growth and inward migration, but the Minister was told there was a need to deal with pent-up unmet demand in our housing system. However, he refused to allow the ESRI to examine that matter, so its baseline study, which underpinned his own housing targets, did not include the crucial figure in this regard. Despite the fact that it wanted...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (21 May 2024)

Simon Harris: Objectively, the previous budget was progressive. That is the finding of the Economic and Social Research Institute, ESRI, and the finding of the documentation that is published on budget day. It was a progressive budget, and the measures taken were progressive. The Deputy raised a fair point with regard to children with disabilities. There was a consensus in this House that we should...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (21 May 2024) See 1 other result from this debate

Simon Harris: ...It is the position of the Government that housing targets will increase, and that work is well under way. It is under way with two inputs: the 2022 census and independent peer-reviewed research from the ESRI. There is a timeline in relation to that. We will see the draft national planning framework published next month. That will go out to consultation, with the finalised version...

Seanad: Future Ireland Fund and Infrastructure, Climate and Nature Fund Bill 2024: Second Stage (21 May 2024)

Michael McGrath: ...NRF, the assets of which will seed the new funds. These new funds are a significant development in the Government's fiscal policy. This has been welcomed by the IMF, the OECD, the Fiscal Council, the ESRI and the Central Bank of Ireland in their economic analyses of Ireland. There are two key motivations to the development of these funds. The first is based on the assumption that a...