A study by the ESRI has shown that a combination of stagnant wages and higher housing costs have left young workers in Ireland financially worse off than their parents.

It found that earnings have flat-lined for young people entering the Irish labour market.

Workers in their 20s are earning less than they did in the 1990s and 2000s.

Aidan Regan is a lecturer in the UCD School of Politics and International Relations, and he told Kieran how this fact might manifest itself in society going forward.