Tag Archives: Western Region

Exploring some potential impacts of the Covid 19 shock on the Western Region – revisiting sectoral employment patterns

Posted on April 27, 2020 by WDC Insights

  The Corona virus pandemic and consequent shutdown is bringing, and will bring, a massive economic shock globally, nationally and regionally, but the detail and scale of the consequences are not yet clear.  There are many unknowns including in relation … Continue reading →

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Aviation trends, Government Policy and Ireland’s airports

Posted on October 2, 2019 by WDC Insights

Introduction The Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport is preparing a new Regional Airports Programme 2020-2024 and has sought the views of stakeholders. The WDC has made a submission which is available for download here. The WDC views are set out … Continue reading →

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Regional Sectoral Profiles: The Complete Collection

Posted on September 16, 2019 by WDC Insights

A year ago we began publishing a series of ‘Regional Sectoral Profiles’ of economic sectors in the Western Region.  Now, 12 months and 12 reports later, the series is complete!  As publication has been spread over a year, I thought … Continue reading →

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Transportation & Storage Sector in the Western Region

Posted on September 11, 2019 by WDC Insights

The Western Development Commission (WDC) has just published the last in its ‘Regional Sectoral Profiles’ series which analysed the most recent employment and enterprise data for the Western Region on specific economic sectors and identified key policy issues.[1] The final … Continue reading →

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New Infographic: Enterprise in the Western Region 2017

Posted on August 28, 2019 by WDC Insights

The WDC has analysed the latest CSO Business Demography data on enterprises in the Western Region. This data is for 2017 when there were 57,951 total enterprises[1] registered in the seven-county Western Region (location of an enterprise is based on … Continue reading →

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The Construction Sector in the Western Region

Posted on August 22, 2019 by WDC Insights

The Western Development Commission (WDC) has published the latest in its ‘Regional Sectoral Profiles’ series which analyses the most recent employment and enterprise data for the Western Region on specific economic sectors and identifies key policy issues.[1] This report examines … Continue reading →

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Professional Services in the Western Region

Posted on July 31, 2019 by WDC Insights

The Western Development Commission (WDC) has just published the latest in its ‘Regional Sectoral Profiles’ series which analyses the most recent employment and enterprise data for the Western Region on specific economic sectors and identifies key policy issues.[1] This report … Continue reading →

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The Public Administration & Defence Sector in the Western Region

Posted on July 17, 2019 by WDC Insights

The Western Development Commission (WDC) has just published the 9th in its Regional Sectoral Profile series which analyse employment in different economic sectors in the Western Region. And this one is of particular interest to us, as it’s the sector … Continue reading →

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Carbon Tax: Use of revenue to address climate action issues in rural areas

Posted on July 2, 2019 by WDC Insights

The WDC made a submission to the Department of Finance Consultation on the options for the use of revenues raised from increases in carbon tax. A detailed consultation paper was prepared by the Tax Division of the Department of Finance … Continue reading →

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The Benefits as well as the Costs of the National Broadband Plan

Posted on June 17, 2019 by WDC Insights

There are significant benefits associated with the planned rollout of the National Broadband Plan (NBP), though the recent media coverage seemed to focus largely on the costs. A review of newspaper headlines over the period following the announcement of the … Continue reading →

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