- The Government Response to Ireland’s Competitiveness Challenge 2024
- Budget 2025 and Competitiveness: Investing in Ireland’s Future Prosperity
- NCPC Chair attends the Competitiveness Summit
- Ireland's Competitiveness Challenge 2024
- Bulletin 24-4 IMD World Competitiveness Rankings
- Bulletin 24-3 Competitiveness and the Housing Market in Ireland
- NCPC's Mid-West Regional Seminar
- NCPC Welcomes DETE-ESRI Joint Economic Research Programme Seminar
- Bulletin 24-2 Ireland’s Competitiveness and Productivity Framework
- ESRI Publish Working Paper of DETE ESRI Joint Research Programme
- Bulletin 24-1 Re-estimating Ireland’s International Innovation Performance
- Bulletin 25-1 Developments in Ireland's National Productivity Statistics
Bulletin 25-1 Developments in Ireland's National Productivity Statistics
The National Competitiveness and Productivity Council is pleased to publish Bulletin 25-1 Developments in Ireland's National Productivity Statistics which provides an overview of the latest statistics published by the CSO (April 2025) and focuses particularly on productivity trends in Ireland's domestic sectors.
Developments in labour productivity are critical to Ireland’s international competitiveness position, and to sustainable growth and improvements in living standards, which are at the centre of the Council’s Productivity and Competitiveness Framework. For this reason, the Council actively reviews the CSO’s Productivity in Ireland publication and welcomes the CSO’s continued investment in productivity statistics.
The latest data show Irish labour productivity in 2023 had fallen for the first time in seven years, dropping marginally below the 2021 level. This was driven by developments in the foreign-dominated sector – which suffered a sharp decline – while domestic-sector productivity remained flat.
This is the fifth formal response issued by Government to the Competitiveness Challenge reports published annually by the Council. The Government recognises the importance and value of the Council’s ongoing work in assessing Ireland’s com...
Whilst it is inevitable that a given Budget will be characterised by a focus on immediate priorities, it also plays a significant role in shaping our broader fiscal approach, and so the objective of this paper is to specifically highlight t...
The Summit was hosted by the Taoiseach and featured discussions on Ireland’s current and future competitiveness challenges we face as a country. The Summit was attended by the relevant Ministers along with representatives of IDA Ireland and...
The Council’s annual report sets out the range of key challenges facing Ireland’s economy, particularly over the medium to long-term. This year, the Council places a clear emphasis on addressing those challenges that come within domestic co...
The National Competitiveness and Productivity Council is pleased to publish Bulletin 24-4 IMD World Competitiveness Rankings which examines Ireland’s fourth place in the IMD’s World Competitiveness rankings. This ranking demonstrates that t...
The National Competitiveness and Productivity Council (NCPC) is pleased to publish Competitiveness Bulletin 24-3 ‘Competitiveness and the Housing Market in Ireland’ which examines the implications of the housing market for Ireland’s competi...
The National Competitiveness and Productivity Council (NCPC) in conjunction with Limerick Chamber and the University of Limerick organised a regional seminar on the 30th of April 2024.
The Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment (DETE) and the Economic and Social Research Institute (ESRI) Joint Research Programme Seminar on ‘Driving Productivity in a Digital-Green Future: Insights on Twin Transition Research’ was h...
Ireland’s Competitiveness and Productivity Framework bulletin outlines the National Competitiveness and Productivity Council’s (NCPC) recent decision to review the longstanding pyramidal framework.
In October 2021, the Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment entered into an agreement with the Economic and Social Research Institute (ESRI) to embark on a joint research programme, titled “The Productivity Challenge and Its interac...