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TASC is Recruiting
09/10/2013
TASC is recruiting two posts to assist with our mission of promoting a flourishing society, based on equality, social justice, transparent democracy …
TASC Budget 2014 Analysis and Proposals
Nat O'Connor 05/09/2013
Nat O'Connor: TASC today launched our Budget 2014 analysis and proposals, 'Choosing an Equitable Route to Recovery'. The full report is available …
A Sensible Alternative Budgetary Approach
Micheál Collins 02/08/2013
Dr Micheál Collins: The recent anti-austerity comments by Ashoka Mody, the IMF’s former chief of mission to Ireland, highlight the growing signs …
A new world order in corporate tax?
19/07/2013
The long-awaited OECD Action Plan on Base Erosion and Profit-Shifting (BEPS) has been released this morning, in time for the G20 meeting in Moscow. …
Jail the Anglo Bankers?
Nat O'Connor 16/07/2013
Nat O'Connor: In the wake of the Anglo Tapes, it was not surprising to see a poster on a lamp post today stating "Jail the Anglo Bankers". As well as …
Prostituting Irish Citizenship
Nat O'Connor 15/07/2013
Nat O'Connor: Up until 1996, under the so-called "Passports for Investment" scheme, a wealthy investor could gain Irish citizenship as part of a deal …
Emerging characteristics of an Enabling State
Nat O'Connor 11/07/2013
Nat O'Connor: Carnegie UK Trust have been organising a series of discussions around the UK, and one in Dublin, about their idea of the 'Enabling …
A New Industrial Strategy for Ireland?
Nat O'Connor 04/07/2013
Nat O'Connor: From the global clamp-down on corporate tax avoidance, the failure of the EU to co-ordinate a jobs-rich recovery strategy and the …
The Scale of Youth Unemployment
Nat O'Connor 04/07/2013
Nat O'Connor: Ireland's economy is contracting again, unemployment is at 13.6 per cent and over 60,000 people emigrated over the last two years (net …
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Contributors
Sean McCabe
Sean holds an B.Sc in Applied Physics from Dublin City University and an M.Sc. in …
Kirsty Doyle
Kirsty Doyle is a Researcher at TASC, working in the area of health inequalities. She is …
Paul Sweeney
Paul Sweeney is former Chief Economist of the Irish Congress of Trade Unions. He was a …