2024 Dublin Economics Workshop
Sept
13
to 14 Sept

2024 Dublin Economics Workshop

The Dublin Economics Workshop (DEW) Annual Economic Policy Conference is Ireland’s longest standing and premier forum for economic policy debate. Attended by policymakers, academics and practitioners, it aims to provide an opportunity for evidence-based policy debate and discussion.

Friday 13th September

13.00 Petty Lecture.

Robert Watt (Secretary General, Department of Health).

Chair: Dermot O’Leary (Goodbody)

 

14:00 The future of FDI: risks and opportunities

Michael Lohan (IDA Ireland)

Susan Roche (PWC Ireland)

Chris Sibley (CSO)

Chair: Aebhric McGibney (Dublin Chamber)

 

15:30 Tea/Coffee

16.00 Hitting our climate targets

Edgar Morgenroth (Dublin City University)

Paul Lyons (Central Bank of Ireland)

George Hussey (Climate Change Advisory Council)

Chair: Yvonne McCarthy (Central Bank of Ireland)

17.45 Cantillon Lecture

Mayor John Moran (Mayor of the City and County of Limerick).

Chair: Aebhric McGibney (Dublin Chamber)

Saturday 14th September

09.30 Labour market, skills needs and future economic growth

Harry Williamson & Dermot Coates (IGESS)

Joan McNaboe (Skills & Labour Market Research Unit, Solas)

Linda Kane (IGEES)

Eoin Morton (Skillnet Ireland)

Chair: Rowena Dwyer (IGEES & D/PENDER)

 

11.00 Tea/Coffee 

 

11.30 How to reach 50k: policies for increasing housing supply

Brian Moran (Hines Ireland)

Aileen Gleeson (Department of Finance) 

Dermot O’Leary (Goodbody)

Chair: Barra Roantree (Trinity College Dublin) 

  

13:00 Lunch

 

14:00 More than money? Performance and capacity in healthcare 

Theano Kakoulidou and Aoife Brick (ESRI) 

Mark Hennesy (Department of Health) 
Brian Turner (UCC)

Chair. Ciarán Mac an Bhaird (DCU)

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DEW Annual Economic Policy Conference 2023
Sept
23
1:00 pm13:00

DEW Annual Economic Policy Conference 2023

The Dublin Economics Workshop (DEW) Annual Economic Policy Conference is Ireland’s longest standing and premier forum for economic policy debate. Attended by policymakers, academics and practitioners, it aims to provide an opportunity for evidence-based policy debate and discussion.

The conference will take place at Clayton Whites Hotel, Wexford on Friday 22nd and Saturday 23rd September, with the full programme available here.

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Mar
22
11:00 am11:00

DEW webinar: Europe, Covid and the Euro

The Dublin Economics Workshop invites you to attend an online seminar with Minister Paschal Donohoe T.D. at 11am on Monday 22nd March entitled “Europe, Covid and the Euro” (note change of date from 22nd February to 22nd March).

Paschal Donohoe T.D. has been Minister for Finance in Ireland since June 2017 and was elected President of the Eurogroup of Finance Ministers in the eurozone in July 2020.

Minister Donohoe T.D. will address the group, followed by a Question and Answers session moderated by Ciaran Hancock (Business Editor of the Irish Times). The event will end by 12 noon.

Attendance is free but booking is essential via the following link:

https://zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_HgV3dKNVRJ-mTfqLv8kQtg

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A Commission on Housing in Ireland – What should it look like?
Jan
14
11:00 am11:00

A Commission on Housing in Ireland – What should it look like?

A Commission on Housing in Ireland was agreed in the 2020 Programme for Government. This webinar, hosted by the Dublin Economics Workshop with the support of Trinity Research in the Social Sciences (TRISS), discussed what the ultimate goals of the commission should be, thwho should contribute to it and how it should be run.

Presentations from the panel, chaired by Liz Canavan (Department of the Taoiseach), are available below:
- Minister for Housing Darragh O’Brien
- Marissa Plouin, Urban Policy Specialist, OECD (slides)
- Rory O’Donnell, Economist, formerly of NESC (slides)

A link to the recording of the webinar can be here.

Read the original proposal for a Commission on Housing here.

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Sept
7
to 11 Sept

DEW 2020: Online conference 7-11 September

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The DEW committee have decided that this year’s Annual Economic Policy Conference will now take place online as a series of webinars. The conference will run online via Zoom from Monday 7th to Friday 14th September.

1pm Monday 7th - REGISTER HERE

How can we provide affordable housing for all?

Eoin Ó Broin TD (Sinn Féin), Michelle Norris (UCD), Ronan Lyons (TCD), Daniel O’Callaghan (DPER, IGEES)

1pm Tuesday 8th - REGISTER HERE

How has COVID affected the labour market?

Cathal McDermott (DPER, IGEES), Ailbhe Brioscu (D/EASP, IGEES), Orlagh Lavelle (DPER, IGEES), John Martin (Chair, Labour Market Advisory Council),

1pm Wednesday 9th - REGISTER HERE

Brexit: things can only get better?

Katy Hayward (QUB), Rory Montgomery (Formerly of the Dept. Of Foreign Affairs), Ben Breen (DPER, IGEES)

1pm Thursday 10th - REGISTER HERE

How can policy aid the recovery? (part 1)

Luiz de Mello (OECD), Sharon Donnery (Deputy Governor Central Bank of Ireland), Minister Michael McGrath TD (Fianna Fáil), Danny McCoy (CEO, IBEC)

1pm Friday 11th - REGISTER HERE

How can policy aid the recovery? (part 2)

Philip R. Lane (Chief Economist, European Central Bank), Tánaiste Leo Varadkar TD (Fine Gael), Frances Ruane (Chair, National Competitiveness Council)

4pm Friday 11th - REGISTER HERE

Is Ireland a tax haven?

Gabriel Zucman (UC Berkeley), Aisling Donohoe (Andersen Tax), Seamus Coffey (UCC)

After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the webinar.

We look forward to returning to Wexford in 2021.

On behalf of the DEW organising committee:

Jasmina Behan, Ronan Lyons, Ciarán Mac An Bhaird, Aebhric McGibney,

Yvonne McCarthy, Dermot O’Leary, Barra Roantree

 


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