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According to the OECD, Ireland’s total ODA (USD 2.5 billion, preliminary data) increased in 2022, mostly due to higher in-donor refugee costs and higher contributions to international organisations. ODA represented 0.64% of gross national income (GNI). [6] The Irish Aid programme is an integral part of Ireland's foreign policy. [7]
The Funds exist in 12 countries around the world, the largest member of the network being The American Ireland Fund, [1] and, after Atlantic Philanthropies, may be the second largest non-governmental donor to Irish causes. The co-founder and for many years global chairman of The Ireland Funds, was businessman Tony O'Reilly. The funds have ...
While IDA Ireland gets its funding from the Irish State (with costs circa €48m in 2017), as an autonomous non-commercial state-sponsored body, it maintains its own independent board and governance. IDA Ireland is authorised to issue grants and financial incentives to firms coming to Ireland (paying out €91 million in 2017). [9]
The agency was established in 2003 under the Industrial Development (Science Foundation Ireland) Act 2003. [1]Following a Technology Foresight activity managed by Forfás, the Irish Government allocated €1.3bn under the 2000–2006 National Development Plan to spend on R&D. [2] SFI was responsible for disbursing €650M of these monies in the targeted strategic areas of ICT and Biotechnology ...
In 2014, the Atlantic Philanthropies announced that it was making a series of major culminating grants, including one to foster peace and human rights in Northern Ireland, another to help fund a national dementia strategy in Ireland, and a third to expand the Center for Budget and Policy Priorities, a Washington, D.C.-based liberal think tank. [37]
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The SEAI was founded as the national energy agency of Ireland under the Sustainable Energy Act 2002 by the government, [1] with the goal of increasing the use and development of affordable sustainable energy in Ireland. [2] It is financed by Ireland’s EU Structural Funds Programme, which funded by both the Irish government and the EU. [1]
The Irish universities include the University of Dublin, better known by the name of its sole college, Trinity College Dublin, the four constituent universities of the National University of Ireland, two universities established in 1989, five technological universities formed by the amalgamation of Institutes of Technology and a professional medical institution.