Posts by Marie Sherlock

Marie Sherlock @marie_sherlock

Marie Sherlock is an economist with SIPTU. Educated in TCD, Cambridge University and UCD, she worked in economic consultancy before joining SIPTU’s research department. She has served as a member of the Government’s Labour Market Council and Advisory Group on Tax and Social Welfare for the Minister of Social Protection. In 2015, she took a year out to head up the development of the Labour Party’s general election manifesto.

Where ambition meets reality: new Government spending plans do not add up

Marie Sherlock 19/05/2016

Marie Sherlock: As we have learned the hard way over the past decade, there is one hell of a gap between the lofty ambition of rescuing and building the economy and the hard task of making it happen and finding the resources to do so. This Government sets a very high test upon which to judge its success or failure - “our approach to governing …