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Cormac Staunton

Cormac Staunton     @cormac_staunton

Cormac Stauton is currently a policy advisor on EU and international policy in the Central Bank of Ireland. Prior to this, he was a policy analyst in TASC, and co-authored the first economic inequality report, Cherishing All Equally


Fact-checking the National Economic Dialogue Factual Guides on Tax and Equity

Cormac Staunton 17/07/2015

Cormac Staunton: The National Economic Dialogue concludes today. The Department of Finance have published guiding documents for each of the breakout …

Survey results show Ireland wants a "Social Recovery"

Cormac Staunton 14/07/2015

Cormac Staunton: New research carried out by ‘Behaviour and Attitudes’ on behalf of TASC shows that there is strong support for investing in …

Do we want the fewest public services in Europe?

Cormac Staunton 25/06/2015

Cormac Staunton: One of the key indicators in TASC's analysis of economic inequality is the level of taxation and government expenditure. We have …

UN Committee Response to Ireland on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights

Cormac Staunton 23/06/2015

Cormac Staunton: The UN’s Committee on Economic Social and Cultural Rights, in its concluding observations on Ireland’s third periodic report, …

Lets start a race to the top: IMF on Inequality

Cormac Staunton 17/06/2015

Cormac Staunton: The IMF have released another staff paper on inequality with some very important findings for our understanding of both the causes …

USC cuts will still benefit higher earners

Cormac Staunton 06/05/2015

Cormac Staunton: The Government today signalled that instead of changing income tax rates and bands in Budget 2016, they are likely to reduce the 7% …

Planned tax cuts likely to increase inequality

Cormac Staunton 29/04/2015

Cormac Staunton: The Government's Spring Statement, announced yesterday, was seen by some as a bit of a damp squib, with very little detail about …

Shining a light on alternatives

Cormac Staunton 14/04/2015

Cormac Staunton: Two important recent announcements by Government signal moves towards addressing some of the causes of economic inequality in …

The Value of Nothing

Cormac Staunton 30/03/2015

Cormac Staunton: A serious suggestion doing the rounds at the moment is that we should have an independent body that costs political party manifestos …

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