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International Women's Day: Statements (5 Mar 2024)

Emer Higgins: ...by means of quotas imposed through legislation. International research shows that gender quotas can and do change the pattern of replacing like with like, but this inequality goes beyond the boardroom. The 2023 ESRI report reveals that being a woman and a migrant creates an even bigger gender gap. Irish women earn 8% less per hour than Irish men, while migrant women earn 11% less. The...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Update on Homelessness: Discussion (5 Mar 2024)

...privately renting has increased, the number of older people in need of local authority housing has increased, homeownership rates are dropping, and homeownership in retirement is not a guarantee. The ESRI reckons that only 65% of current 35- to 44-year-olds will own a house on retirement while the rate of older people living alone in mortgage arrears is also increasing. This is against...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (5 Mar 2024)

Malcolm Noonan: ...fertility, mortality and migration trends. In addition, the research will outline projections relating to structural housing demand, having regard to factors such as headship and obsolescence. The ESRI is currently finalising its research with a view to providing a draft report for consideration by the Department in March. Following this, the report will be peer-reviewed and published,...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Overcrowding (29 Feb 2024)

Gino Kenny: 33. To ask the Minister for Health if he is aware of a recent ESRI report that found there is an immediate 1,000 bed deficit across public hospitals and an additional 330 beds are required each year for the foreseeable future; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9503/24]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Covid-19 Pandemic (29 Feb 2024)

Roderic O'Gorman: .... Growing Up in Ireland has already provided valuable insights into how the pandemic restrictions have affected children and young people. A special GUI Covid survey was conducted in December 2020 by telephone with the participants at age 12 and 22 respectively. In 2022, the ESRI and my Department co-produced a report on how the restrictions affected young adults during a key...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (29 Feb 2024)

Kieran O'Donnell: It could be an ESRI report, for example.

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Estimates for Public Services 2024
Vote 4 - Central Statistics Office (Revised) (28 Feb 2024) See 3 other results from this debate

Hildegarde Naughton: ...and designed to support accurate and reliable survey results. The CSO published the first of these results in April 2023. The CSO also took over the growing up in Ireland survey from the Economic and Social Research Institute, ESRI, in 2023. Business and social data collection continues to be a key activity for the CSO. The survey on income and living conditions was published in...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (28 Feb 2024)

Darragh O'Brien: ...-term review. Any government worth its salt that is witnessing the population increase should regard the NPF as very important. It is not produced in isolation. We also have the census data, the ESRI input and the Housing Commission input. It is a matter of looking into how the first NPF, dating from 2016, used the data, even through examining house sizes. House sizes have changed...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Energy Poverty: Discussion (Resumed) (28 Feb 2024)

...I take on board those comments. On the private rental sector, work is ongoing to support that objective of the Government. There is a piece of research under our joint research programme with the ESRI. We have asked it to do a piece of research to look at how that might be actioned. It is looking at issues such as what would be required in terms of investment, what kind of financial...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: North-South Student Mobility: Discussion (Resumed) (27 Feb 2024) See 1 other result from this debate

Paul Kehoe: ...impressed by the standard of education provided there. You are very welcome. It is great to have you here. On behalf of the committee, I welcome from the Economic and Social Research Institute, ESRI, Professor Emer Smyth, research professor in the social research division and adjunct professor at Trinity College Dublin, and Dr. Merike Darmody. The witnesses are here today to discuss the...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Education and Training Provision (27 Feb 2024)

Simon Harris: ...the challenges we face when it comes to developing these skills. It makes a number of recommendations to meet the projected workforce need. The analysis in the report significantly complements the recent ESRI report The National Development Plan in 2023: Priorities and Capacity by providing a granular and comprehensive assessment of specific skill requirements for the development of...

Health (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2024: Second Stage (21 Feb 2024)

Róisín Shortall: ...for somebody to go to a therapist or a nursing service. Ahead of the budget, I tried to find modelling on medical card income limits but I had no luck on that at all. All the modelling from the likes of the ESRI and the Department of public expenditure related solely to GP-visit cards. A number of Deputies also raised this with the Minister via parliamentary questions, but his answers...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (21 Feb 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: ...report says the State's homebuilding sector has a "distinct lack of scale" and that "This lack of scale threatens the attainment of Ireland’s housing requirements". This was also recorded in an ESRI report at the beginning of this year that said we do not have enough construction workers to deliver on the State's housing requirements and we are probably 15,000 to 20,000...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (21 Feb 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: ...commenced permissions up to the HNDA target and the headroom. I agree with the Minister that the HNDA targets are out of date, not just because they are based on the 2016 census but also because the ESRI report they were based on did not take into account pent-up demand. Therefore, they were always significantly out, even in 2019 and 2020 when the ESRI study that was commissioned by the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Energy Poverty: Discussion (Resumed) (21 Feb 2024) See 1 other result from this debate

...The process to register it as a charity is under way. To enable EnergyCloud Ireland to support more families in energy poverty across Ireland, we are putting a full-time executive team in place. The ESRI report on energy poverty and deprivation in Ireland highlights that more than 550,000 households are in energy poverty, with that figure increasing. Using a factor of 2.3, that is...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Poverty Impact Assessment (20 Feb 2024)

Heather Humphreys: ...to household income and thereby support low-income families with children. All of the Department’s budget measures are subject to a poverty impact assessment using the SWITCH model developed by the ESRI. The specific idea suggested by the Deputy of extending Child Benefit in respect of 16, 17 or 18 year olds who are not in full-time education or training was not considered as an...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Poverty Data (20 Feb 2024)

Joe O'Brien: ...2023. It should be noted that over the last three Budgets there has been a cumulative €29 increase to core weekly social welfare payments (€5 in 2022, €12 in 2023 and €12 in 2024). Each year, the ESRI produces an independent post-Budget analysis of the main tax and welfare changes in the Budget. Analysis shows that measures announced under Budget 2024, will...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Departmental Bodies (20 Feb 2024)

Eamon Ryan: ...ideas to combat energy poverty. A report setting out the recommendations and outcomes of the Energy Poverty Stakeholder Forum is available on gov.ie. The Action Plan also pledges support for ESRI research to develop metrics to measure energy poverty and track changes in its severity and scope over time. This three-year research programme will assist Government to ensure future...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Rental Sector (20 Feb 2024)

Darragh O'Brien: ...Prior to the release of the new format Rent Index report in November 2023, which now includes data on standardised average rent for both new and existing tenancies, I attended a briefing with the ESRI and the RTB to discuss their findings. The Rent Index report is the most accurate and authoritative rent report of its kind on the private rental sector in Ireland. Compared to other...