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Budget 2016: Opportunity missed to address social crisis, particularly housing, as chronic under-investment in infrastructure continued
Rory Hearne 13/10/2015
Rory Hearne: So what do the expenditure measures announced in today’s Budget 2016 do to address Ireland’s worsening social and economic …
Flat Tax benefits Top 25% of earners and reduces services for everyone
Cormac Staunton 06/10/2015
Cormac Staunton: When trying to understand the impact of changes to the income tax system there are two vital bits of information that are needed: …
Can Corbyn win? - A Look at the Stats
Oisín Gilmore 06/10/2015
Oisin Gilmore: For over the last 100 years or so progressive politics in Western Europe has been dominated by a small number of major parties. Some …
Making Dublin the capital of Ireland
James Wickham 02/10/2015
James Wickham: Two opportunities are about to be lost for dramatic improvements to Dublin. There seems to be considerable push-back against Dublin …
Complexity of inequality means we must move beyond single indicators
Cormac Staunton 29/09/2015
Cormac Staunton: Yogi Berra, the great American Baseball player who died last week at the age of 90, is credited with the immortal line: “It’s …
Ireland's Great Inequality Debate
Cormac Staunton 28/09/2015
Cormac Staunton: Irish people know that the world is an unequal place. The exact scale of this divide was brought home to viewers who watched David …
What about the PAYE Worker?
Paul Sweeney 23/09/2015
Paul Sweeney: For decades there used to be a refrain heard endlessly on taxation. It was “What about the PAYE worker?” Will we hear it more often …
A Very British Coup
David Begg 17/09/2015
David Begg: About twenty years ago a television serial entitled ‘A Very British Coup’ was screened by the BBC. It featured Ray McAnally in the …
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Vic Duggan
Vic Duggan is an independent consultant, economist and public policy specialist catering …
Kirsty Doyle
Kirsty Doyle is a Researcher at TASC, working in the area of health inequalities. She is …
Jim Stewart
Dr Jim Stewart is Adjunct Associate Professor at Trinity College Dublin. His research …