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What Can Be Done About Faulty Building
Paul Sweeney 10/02/2023
Many of the deaths in the recent Turkish earthquakes could have been prevented had there been better laws and better enforcement of the existing lax laws on construction in that country. The Irish government is to spend up to €2.5bn of taxpayers' money in remedying faulty buildings, on top of the €1.5bn of taxpayers' money to be spent …
Housing shortage – whatever happened to the workers?
James Wickham 09/04/2017
There’s a lot of building to do: Ireland needs a housing building programme, a renewal of infrastructure, investment in public transport especially …
London on the Liffey? Some impacts of the relocation of financial services jobs to Dublin
James Wickham 21/08/2016
James Wickham: Post-Brexit it is widely believed that Ireland will benefit from the relocation of some financial services employment from London to …
Google and the case for broadband investment
Tom McDonnell 28/06/2011
Tom McDonnell: It is too easy in these days of high drama on the European stage to forget the fundamentals that will drive our eventual economic …
House Swap on Ghost Estates
26/10/2010
Nat O'Connor The Department of the Environment has published a report into the state of 120,000 dwellings in Ireland's unfinished, 'ghost' housing …
Running to Stand Still: Next Generation Broadband in Ireland
Donal Palcic 29/01/2010
Donal Palcic: Forfás published its latest report on Ireland’s broadband performance last week and as usual it evoked a strong sense of déjà vu. …
League tables and losing the plot
08/12/2009
This post was originally written on April 21st in response to an article in the Sunday Business Post. We are re-posting it following last night's …
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Robert Sweeney
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Paul Sweeney is former Chief Economist of the Irish Congress of Trade Unions. He was a …