Vincentian MESL Research Centre

A calendar graphic noting the 1st of October as the date for the 2025/26 Living Wage for Ireland rate.

The 2025/26 real #LivingWage rate for Ireland will be announced on Wednesday 1st October. www.livingwage.ie

Cover image of Minimum Essential Standard of Living report for 2025

The #MESL2025 report out today!
Read the report for details of the Minimum Essential Standard of Living in 2025:
📈18.8% change in MESL costs from 2020 to 2025
👩‍👦‍👦Update on minimum needs of children
💶Adequacy of social protection rates and minimum wage
www.budgeting.ie

We're hiring: MESL Research (Specific Purpose) Apply here: www.svp.ie/careers/work-with-us/

Join the team at the Vincentian MESL research centre.

We're hiring a MESL Researcher (on a specific purpose contract).

🗓️Applications close on 23rd May 2025

👉 www.svp.ie/careers/work...

Groups with highest rate below #MESL include children (15%), lone parents (38%), and working-age single adults (26%).

Majority of people below #MESL (72%) are also at-risk of poverty, a third (35%) experience deprivation, a quarter (23%) live in consistent poverty.

www.esri.ie/news/lone-pa...

Renters, lone parents among those mostly likely to have income that does not meet spending needs New study finds Irish households on average need 45% of disposable weekly income, after housing costs, to cover basic expenditure

New @esri.ie paper finds 11% of people live in households below the Minimum Essential Standard of Living.

Children, lone parents, working age single adults and renters are the most effected.

www.irishtimes.com/ireland/soci...

Our #MESL Impact Briefing assessing Budget 2025 is out now.

We analyse the impact of Budget 2025, applying the MESL data to examine the impact of the announced measures on income adequacy next year.

The briefing is available at www.budgeting.ie/publications/budget-2025-1/

Our @europeansocieties.bsky.social article with @surili.bsky.social is featured in today's Irish Times (@irishtimes.bsky.social) with some on-point quotes by us.

www.irishtimes.com/ireland/soci...

Full paper here:https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/14616696.2023.2275592

The paper also outlines a proposal for an 'Energy Guarantee' approach that is responsive to households’ minimum energy need by taking account of dwelling efficiency, energy costs & income.

www.budgeting.ie/publications...

Cover image of MESL Working Paper 'The cost of adequately heating the home'.

#MESL Working Paper 'The cost of adequately heating the home' published.
Examines 
• cost of meeting energy need, by dwelling efficiency for 4 household types,
• burden of energy costs 
• risk of #energypoverty in social welfare and minimum wage scenarios.

www.budgeting.ie/publications...