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A Challenge to Ireland’s Wealthy
Paul Sweeney 21/03/2016
Paul Sweeney: “We can well afford to pay our current taxes, and we can afford to pay even more. Our state needs to invest this revenue in our …
Retreat on Comprehensive Reform on Pension Taxation in Ireland and the U.K.
Gerard Hughes 20/03/2016
Prof Gerry Hughes: In the last fifteen years the cost of pension tax relief has doubled in Ireland and the U.K. and most of the tax relief accrues to …
Good News on Climate Change
16/03/2016
Paul Sweeney: It is not often that we get good news on climate change, but a report from the International Energy Agency is positive and interesting. …
Lifetime Community Rating and Inequality
Nat O'Connor 13/03/2016
Nat O'Connor: We are coming up to the first anniversary of Lifetime Community Rating (LCR) in private health insurance and it is timely to consider …
Wealth rising at the top
Rory Hearne 09/03/2016
Rory Hearne: The increasing concentration of wealth at the top of society has become a major economic, social and political issue. It is surprising, …
The price of car dependency
James Wickham 08/03/2016
James Wickham: Three almost random stories about Dublin’s transport disaster. The first two show what happens if there is little investment in …
An EU Mirror Held Up To Ireland’s Economic Policies
07/03/2016
Paul Sweeney: In this final blog on the recent EU report on Ireland, a few more issues will be examined.We Irish are fascinated with how other …
The EU on Ireland's Lack of Investment and the Improving Irish Labour Market
Paul Sweeney 03/03/2016
Paul Sweeney: I continue my examination of the recent EU report on Ireland EU Country Specific Recs. Ireland. It recommends three priorities for EU …
Why the EU Commission is right to call for increased public investment in infrastructure
Paul Sweeney 01/03/2016
Paul Sweeney: The new EU report on the Irish Economy EU Ireland report 2016 makes for interesting reading, if only to see how Brussels views our …
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Shana Cohen
Dr. Shana Cohen is the Director of TASC. She studied at Princeton University and at the …
Paul Sweeney
Paul Sweeney is former Chief Economist of the Irish Congress of Trade Unions. He was a …
Kirsty Doyle
Kirsty Doyle is a Researcher at TASC, working in the area of health inequalities. She is …