The Central Statistics Office of Ireland (CSO) have said that house price across Ireland are up 11% from June 2016 to June 2017. County Fingal on Dublin's Northside saw the lowest increase at 5.4% while the sunny south-east saw the biggest increase if 16%. House price remain 29% lower than their highest levels in 2007, however they are 58% higher than their lowest levels in 2013, with Dublin seeing a 73% increase from 2013.

According to credit card company VISA Irish consumer spending is up 2.5%, and has overtaken March as the fastest increase in spending. July saw an increase of 1.8% from June.

Ireland's Department of Housing, Planning and Local Government have release June's monthly Homelessness Figures. In the last week of June there where over 7,000 people homeless in Ireland, of them 2,270 where children. These figures only account for those placed in temporary accommodation.

Good news for the government parties coming into the General Election 2016 as the Central Statistics Office suggests that unemployment has fallen in January 2016. The figures released show that the Seasonally adjusted unemployment rate was at 8.6% this compares to 10.1% this time last year. The total number of people unemployed in January 2016 was 186,700, this is a change of -3,000 from December 2015.

The Central Statistics Office have released their monthly House Prices Index. The Index shows continued growth in the Irish property sector, but they are 34 to 40% lower than their highest levels in 2007. The national monthly change in December 2015 was 0.5%, but they were up 6.6% from December 2014.

The rate of unemployment in Ireland has remain at 9.7%, this compares to a figure of 11.4% in June 2014. According to the just 500 people came of the live register in June since May. This means the figure has remained unchanged.