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• 24th November 2020 Slides from Conversations Series - An Tánaiste Leo Varadkar TD 23 November 2020
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• 24th November 2020 TASC Mental Health and Covid-19 Roundtable - Briefing Document
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• 18th November 2020 The People’s Transition: Community-led Development for Climate Justice
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• 14th October 2020 Cherishing all Equally 2020: The Care Economy
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• 7th October 2020 TASC Submission to the Committee on Budgetary Oversight - Budget 2021
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• 29th September 2020 Stories of the Pandemic: The impact of COVID-19 on Food Producers in Ireland
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• 23rd September 2020 Inequality and the top 10% in Europe - Full Report
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• 23rd September 2020 Inequality and the top 10% in Europe - Policy Recommendations
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• 30th July 2020 Time to Care! Work, life and inequality in the care economy
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• 23rd June 2020 TASC Policy Brief: Towards a Fair Recovery
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• 4th June 2020 Stories of the Pandemic: The experiences of Millennial and Generation Y workers in Ireland
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• 4th June 2020 TASC Policy Brief: The home care sector post COVID-19
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• 12th May 2020 Policy Brief - Community led just recovery for rural Ireland
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• 28th April 2020 Stories of the Pandemic: COVID-19 and Job Loss in Ireland
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• 10th March 2020 The State We Are In: Inequality in Ireland 2020
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• 6th March 2020 Exploring Household Debt - Exec Summary for Policy Makers
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• 6th March 2020 Exploring Household Debt in Ireland: Executive Summary
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• 3rd March 2020 Exploring Household Debt in Ireland - Main Report
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• 14th January 2020 Election 2020 - TASC Policy Recommendations
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• 28th November 2019 Ensuring Good Future Jobs
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• 6th November 2019 Reducing Health Inequalities: The Role of Civil Society
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• 24th October 2019 Post Budget 2020 Analysis
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• 16th September 2019 Ireland's Citizens' Assemblies
• 30th May 2019 Regional Aspects of Socioeconomic Disadvantage
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• 22nd May 2019 TASC Pre-Budget Submission 2019
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• 20th February 2019 Cherishing All Equally 2019: Inequality in Europe and Ireland
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• 11th January 2019 The State We are In: Inequality in Ireland Today
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• 8th November 2018 Precarious Work Precarious Lives: How Policy Can Create More Security
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• 18th October 2018 Corporate Tax and Industrial Policy in Ireland: Selections from the Book Upsetting the Applecart
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• 10th October 2018 Health Inequalities in Europe: Setting the Stage for Progressive Policy Action
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• 25th June 2018 Presentation to Budget Oversight Committee 2018
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• 25th June 2018 TASC Brief Budgetary Oversight Committee June 2018
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• 19th April 2018 Living with Uncertainty: The Social implications of Precarious Work
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• 13th March 2018 Ireland, Global Finance and the Russian Connection
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• 13th March 2018 TASC Low Pay Submission 2018
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• 6th July 2017 A Home or a Wealth Generator ?
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• 6th July 2017 Cherishing All Equally 2017
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• 29th April 2017 Submission on Investment to DPER April 2017
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• 3rd December 2016 Cherishing All Equally 2016 - Report Highlights 1
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• 2nd December 2016 Cherishing All Equally 2016 - Key Indicators of Economic Inequality - Highlights 2
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• 1st December 2016 Cherishing All Equally 2016 - Children and Economic Inequality in Ireland - Highlights 3
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• 1st November 2016 The Problem with Tax Breaks
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• 28th September 2016 TASC Submission on the Public Sector Standards Bill 2015
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• 21st September 2016 TASC Submission to the Consultation on Ireland's Open Government Partnership National Action Plan 2016-2018
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• 1st September 2016 TASC Submission to Lobbying Act 2015 Review
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• 20th July 2016 Cherishing All Equally 2016 - Economic Inequality in Ireland
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• 17th June 2016 Enforced Flexibility? Working in Ireland Today
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• 14th April 2016 Bogus self-employment in the Irish Construction Industry
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• 25th March 2016 Low Pay Commission - Submission on Women
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• 25th March 2016 Low Pay Commission - Submission on National Minimum Wage
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• 23rd March 2016 Towards Cherishing All Equally 2016: Five proposals for a new Programme for Government
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• 25th February 2016 Policy Brief: Setting the Record Straight
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• 9th December 2015 The Distribution of Wealth in Ireland
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• 1st December 2015 A Time for Ambition: Ensuring Prosperity Through Investment
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• 19th November 2015 Low Paid and Demanding : Work in the Irish Hospitality Sector
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• 9th November 2015 Budget 2016 Equality Analysis
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• 1st August 2015 TASC Comment on Lobbying Transparency Code
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• 7th July 2015 Living Wage Technical Document - July 2015
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• 1st June 2015 TASC Behaviour and Attitudes Survey Results June 2015
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• 28th May 2015 TASC Submission on Universal Retirement Savings Scheme
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• 28th May 2015 TASC Submission to Low Pay Commission
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• 28th April 2015 Knowledge Development Box Submission
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• 10th April 2015 The Case for Indigenous Control of Aer Lingus - Think Piece April 2015
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• 16th February 2015 Cherishing All Equally 2015
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• 21st January 2015 The Impact of Social Protection on the Distribution of Income in Ireland
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• 15th December 2014 Behaviour and Attitudes Opinion Poll November 2014
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• 15th December 2014 The Solidarity Factor Opinion Poll November 2014
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• 21st November 2014 TASC Annual Lecture Nov 2014
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• 8th October 2014 TASC Budget 2015 Briefing (Oct 2014)
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• 3rd October 2014 TASC Response to IBEC Tax Analysis
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• 29th September 2014 TASC Budget 2015 Commentary (Sept 2014)
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• 29th September 2014 TASC Budget 2015 Executive Summary (Sept 2014)
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• 26th September 2014 TASC FEPS 2014 Conference Report
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• 24th September 2014 Response to the Irish Tax Institute’s Analysis of Higher Income Tax
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• 15th July 2014 TASC Response Budget 2015 - Oireachtas Joint Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform
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• 3rd July 2014 TASC Income Inequality in Ireland Claiming Our Future July 2014
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• 3rd July 2014 TASC Submission on Universal Health Insurance
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• 27th June 2014 TASC - A cut in VAT Policy Brief
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• 27th June 2014 TASC Inequality Ireland Policy Brief
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• 27th June 2014 TASC Preserving the 41 Per Cent Tax Rate
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• 27th June 2014 TASC Third Rate Tax Brief
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• 25th June 2014 TASC Annual Conference 2014 - Presentation Nat O'Connor
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• 13th June 2014 TASC PRSI Step Effect for Low Income Workers
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• 12th June 2014 TASC - How much tax do people pay on their incomes policy brief
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• 4th June 2014 TASC Annual Conference Programme (20 June 2014)
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• 22nd May 2014 A Defence of Taxation: Progressive alternatives to reducing public services through tax cuts
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• 1st May 2014 TASC Creating a Flourishing Society IMO (April 2014 Speech)
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• 28th April 2014 TASC Presentation Irish Medical Organisation on Economic Equality - Nat O'Connor
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• 22nd April 2014 TASC Equitable Water Charging Policy Brief
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• 6th January 2014 The Nuts and Bolts of Innovation: New Perspectives on Irish Industrial Policy
• 1st December 2013 Water Charges Presentation (Dec 2013)
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• 1st September 2013 Budget 2014: Choosing an Equitable Route to Recovery (Sept 2013)
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• 1st September 2013 Wealth Tax in Ireland Discussion Paper by Tom McDonnell
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• 4th June 2013 TASC Paying for Water
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• 3rd April 2013 TASC Submission on Property Tax April 2013
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• 1st October 2012 Budget 2013 - Closing the Gap: TASC’s Proposals for a More Equitable Budget (Nov 2012)
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• 30th September 2012 Tax Injustice: Following the Tax Trail (Sept 2012)
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• 16th July 2012 Good for Business? Worker participation on boards (July 2012)
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• 6th July 2012 Europe's Crisis: Market Competition instead of Social Bonds - Discussion Paper
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• 1st July 2012 The Eurozone Crisis: Causes and Solutions Discussion Paper (July 2012)
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• 24th May 2012 Gender, Governance and the Irish Crisis - Think Piece
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• 24th May 2012 Untold Story of the Crisis Gender and Equality - Think Piece
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• 22nd May 2012 TASC - Submission on Unemployment and Youth Unemployment
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• 12th February 2012 The Strategic Role of State Assets Feb 2012
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• 1st February 2012 TASC Submission on the Regulation of Lobbyists
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• 8th December 2011 Budget 2012 - Roadmap to Greater Inequality TASC Response (Dec 2011)
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• 1st November 2011 Budget 2012 - Winners and Losers? Equality Lessons
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• 3rd October 2011 After the Celtic Tiger: A Nordic Vision for a New Ireland?
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• 3rd October 2011 Fergus O'Ferrall Visioning a New Civic Republic
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• 3rd October 2011 Flourishing Society -The Role of the Economy
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• 3rd October 2011 Francis Hutcheson and Irish Dissent - A Political
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• 3rd October 2011 Political, Institutional and Legal Framework
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• 3rd October 2011 TASC Submissionon Public Health Policy Final
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• 3rd October 2011 The Flourishing Society - Introduction
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• 1st October 2011 Budget 2012- Towards an Equality Budget (Oct 2011)
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• 30th July 2011 TASC Public Appointments:Options for Reform (July 2011)
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• 1st June 2011 Eliminating Health Inequalities
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• 3rd May 2011 A Square Deal: The Real Cost of Making a Meal in the Restaurant Sector
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• 1st May 2011 The Debt and Banking Crisis: May 2011
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• 1st April 2011 Myths of the Irish Crisis: April 2011
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• 24th February 2011 TASC Submission: Wage setting Spring 2011
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• 1st January 2011 Deconstructing the Annual Budgetary Process: A Human Rights Perspective (Jan 11)
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• 1st December 2010 Public Expenditure Discussion Paper: The Composition of Spending, Income Equality and Economic Growth
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• 1st December 2010 Public Expenditure: Rationales and Constraints
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• 14th October 2010 Budget 2011 - TASC Proposals Investing in Recovery (Oct 2010)
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• 1st September 2010 Thinkpiece: Social Enterprise – An overlooked approach to promoting sustainable economic recovery
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• 17th August 2010 The Solidarity Factor: Public Responses to Economic Inequality in Ireland - TASC Survey 2010
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• 5th August 2010 Life and Debt 2010: Financial Exclusion in the Age of NAMA
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• 29th July 2010 The Role of Access to Information in Ireland's Democracy
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• 20th July 2010 TASC Presentation on the Minimum Wage to the Oireachtas Committee on Enterprise, Trade and Employment
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• 30th June 2010 TASC Submission to the Financial Regulator on Corporate Governance
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• 29th June 2010 An Economic Argument for Stronger Freedom of Information Laws in Ireland (June 2010)
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• 17th June 2010 2010 TASC Annual Lecture: From a Neo-Liberal to an Egalitarian State (Professor Kathleen Lynch)
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• 1st June 2010 Stimulating Recovery: Papers presented to FEPS/TASC Seminar June 2010
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• 13th May 2010 Mapping the Golden Circle
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• 1st May 2010 Failed Design: Ireland's Finance Acts and their Role in the Crisis
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• 26th January 2010 Tasc Pension Update: Making Pensions Work for People
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• 1st June 2008 Regeneration: Public Good or Private Profit?
• 27th March 2008 Book - Where are We Now? New Feminist Perspectives on women in contemporary Ireland
• 26th March 2008 H.E.A.P. Report - Hierarchy of Earnings, Attributes and Privilege
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• 1st July 2007 Book - Governing Below the Centre: :Local Government in Ireland
• 1st June 2007 Power to the People? Assessing Democracy in Northern Ireland.
• 4th April 2007 Power to the People? Assessing Democracy in Ireland
• 27th March 2007 Choosing your Future: How to reform Ireland's Pension System
• 1st June 2006 Book - GRIDLOCK: Dublin's Transport Crisis and the Future of the City
• 1st June 2006 Outsourcing Government - Public bodies and accountability
• 1st May 2006 The Trouble with Northern Ireland - the Belfast Agreement and Democratic Governance
• 1st December 2005 Book - Out of Reach - Inequalities in the Irish Housing System
• 1st October 2005 The Report of the Democracy Commission, Engaging Citizens, The Case for Democratic Renewal in Ireland
• 20th June 2005 Public Perspectives on Democracy in Ireland: Topline Audit Results
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• 1st June 2005 Post Washington: Why America Can't Rule the World
• 1st May 2005 For Richer, For Poorer: an Investigation of the Irish Pension System
• 1st October 2004 Selling Out? - Privatisation in Ireland
• 30th September 2004 Book - After the Ball - What is the legacy of the Celtic Tiger? by Fintan O'Toole
• 1st January 2004 Book - An Outburst of Frankness: A Community Arts Reader
• 1st January 2004 Taming The Tiger, Social Exclusion in a Globalised Ireland