Report Launch: Ireland’s Public Spending Explained 2024
The Geary Institute for Public Policy would like to invite you to the launch of a new report: Ireland’s Public Spending Explained 2024. This report gives insight not only into where money is being allocated but also to the range of goods and services provided through government departments and state agencies. The state will spend €114.4 billion this year but, before now, there has never been a single report that shows where all that money has been allocated.
The report is a valuable resource for teaching in multiple disciplines, as well as being of interest to journalists, NGOs, politicians and anyone else interested in what we will get in exchange for the €114.4 billion of public money allocated in 2024.
The launch will take place at 3.30pm on Thursday 21st March 2024 at Buswells Hotel 23-27, Molesworth St, Dublin 2, D02 CT80. Registration will open at 3pm.
Speakers include the report author, Dr Nat O’Connor, and Dr Lisa Wilson, Senior Economist Nevin Economic Research Institute (NERI), will respond to the report.
Eventbrite details: https://www.eventbrite.ie/e/report-launch-irelands-public-spending-explained-2024-tickets-857054933377
About the report:
Public access to high quality information is an essential part of democracy, not least clear information about where public money is allocated. This report makes public spending more intuitive by describing it in just 105 ‘spending programmes’. The report provides brief descriptions and statistics for all 105 spending programmes, which are divided into the 30 top programmes (each of which is 1% or more of public spending), 44 major programmes (each accounting for 0.1% to 0.99%) and 31 ‘smaller’ spending programmes (less than 0.1% each). The report also describes the tools available to analyse value for money and the impact of public spending programmes, as well as a detailed method showing how the numbers in the report were produced.
The report was written by Dr Nat O’Connor. Dr O’Connor has taught politics and social policy since 1999, and is currently an occasional lecturer in Maynooth University and UCD. He has a PhD in political science from TCD and a MA in political science and social policy from the University of Dundee. In a voluntary capacity, Nat is chairperson of the Irish Social Policy Association (www.ispa.ie). Nat has authored and co-authored a range of reports and academic papers.
This report is published by the UCD Geary Institute for Public Policy. The Geary Institute is a centre of excellence for policy-relevant, theoretically informed, empirical research in the social and behavioural sciences. PublicPolicy.ie is the Institute’s online platform for disseminating policy-related research in order to inform academic and contemporary debates about public policy in Ireland.