Exploring Developments in the Irish Housing and Mortgage Market
Speakers addressed issues such as current and future house price movements, affordability in the housing market, social housing, and current regulatory developments in the mortgage market. Eoghan Murphy, TD, Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government, opened the conference.
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Conference Programme
Conference Programme
Introduction
09.00
Welcome
Professor Alan Barrett, Director, ESRI
9:05
Opening Address
Eoghan Murphy,TD, Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government
Session 1
Session 1
Developments in the Irish Housing Market
09.30
Macroeconomic Developments in the Irish Housing Market
Kieran McQuinn (ESRI)
10.00
Housing Affordability in Ireland
Conor O’Toole and Rachel Slaymaker (ESRI)
10.30
Tea/Coffee
SESSION 2
SESSION 2
Mortgage Market and Social Housing
11.00
Mortgage Market Finance and Regulatory Developments
Trevor Fitzpatrick (Central Bank of Ireland)
11:30
Social Housing in the Irish Housing Market.
Dorothy Watson (ESRI)
Eoin Corrigan (Department of Housing, Planning and Local Government)
SESSION 3
SESSION 3
Roundtable discussion
12:00
Participants
Michelle Norris, Head of the School of the School of Social Policy, Social Work and Social Justice University College Dublin
David Duffy, Director, Property Industry Ireland
David Walsh, Assistant Secretary for the Planning, Land Management and Housing Market Policy Division, Department of Housing, Planning and Local Government
David Silke, Director of Research and Corporate Affairs at the Housing Agency
12:50
Closing Remarks