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The Privatisation Board: What will it do?
Jim Stewart 23/07/2010
Jim Stewart: The composition of the Privatisation Board, and its terms of reference, makes inevitable that the conclusions will be: privatisation of …
Leprechauns, fairies and Professor Fitzgerald's response
23/07/2010
Professor John Fitzgerald of the ESRI has published a response to Paul Krugman's critique of the Institute's recent 'Recovery Scenarios' publication; …
Having a go in the dark
Michael Taft 22/07/2010
Michael Taft: That the Sunday Business Post has another go at public sector workers should hardly be news. Every time they mention public sector …
Leprechauns and Confidence Fairies
21/07/2010
Writing in the New York Times, Paul Krugman is unimpressed by the latest ESRI report. He writes: "The authors simply assert that more austerity now …
Who needs higher education anyway
James Wickham 21/07/2010
James Wickham: To nobody’s surprise, the forthcoming Hunt Report on higher education will apparently recommend the re-introduction of student fees. …
TASC presentation on the Minimum Wage
21/07/2010
The Minimum Wage presentation given by TASC yesterday to the Oireachtas Joint Committee on Enterprise, Trade and Employment is now available for …
Out of the traps and into the abyss
Michael Burke 20/07/2010
Michael Burke: A piece in today's Guardian reports on the downgrade by Moody's, and expresses some surprise that there wasn't much of a reaction in …
Guest post by Michael O'Sullivan: Who's fooling whom?
20/07/2010
Michael O'Sullivan: Government ministers are now talking of an economic recovery. While this is what most people will want to hear, it will at the …
Between the rocks
Slí Eile 19/07/2010
Slí Eile: Here we go again. Softening-up time. The summer schools, the rain, the Dáil holidays and…. exclusive inside news stories on what the …
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Paul Sweeney
Paul Sweeney is former Chief Economist of the Irish Congress of Trade Unions. He was a …
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Vic Duggan
Vic Duggan is an independent consultant, economist and public policy specialist catering …
Robert Sweeney
Robert Sweeney is a policy analyst at TASC and focuses on issues surrounding Irish …