That 100% of the LPT collected will stay in the local authority area is significant — in the nature of a local levy to pay for local service

Firms have to secure their assets and comply with reporting obligations while not deterring genuine customers

The policy challenge for government is to provide a supply of affordable homes for those who wish to become owner-occupiers while ensuring  reasonable cost rental accommodation is available for tenants

The current estimate by the campaigning Living Wage Technical Group suggests it should be an additional €2 or so per hour over the current statutory minimum wage of €10.20.

We have a new category of traveller in Ireland — the tax immigrant

The €400,000, in very broad terms, is what a worker would have to have paid into a private pension fund to achieve the same annuity as is offered by the state on retirement

Last week, Michael Clifford highlighted in this newspaper the significance of a UK supreme court case involving Uber and its drivers and its implications for precarious work.

As we head into a second year of rolling lockdowns, Brian Keegan says pandemic work conditions and benefits can no longer be regarded as temporary

The analysis of the impact of Covid-19 restrictions on greenhouse gas emissions in this country in 2020 better describes the scale of the environmental challenge than offers hope of progress 

The problems and delays are arising not because of the arrangements in the Trade and Co-operation Agreement, but rather what the agreement does not cover, writes Brian Keegan