Strange how some things don’t get into the debate. For instance, the ESRI’s recent Recovery Scenarios judged the Government’s fiscal strategy a failure. It estimated that not only will the…

What would you say if a Government Minister, discussing Budget 2011, came on to a current affairs programme and said the following ‘To increase economic growth, we intend to cut…

Dan O’Brien – who is producing work at the Irish Times at a phenomenal rate – quotes approvingly from the Department of Finance: ‘In formulating policy, the Government took on…

IBEC has just released a ‘report’ (which Finfact’s Michael Hennigan has described as ‘a marketing brochure’) that highlights the Irish economy’s strengths – educated labour force, low-tax regime, falling prices,…

Remember a few months ago, when ICTU proposed postponing the target year for Maastricht compliance to 2017? There was a widespread rending of garments and universal condemnation of this most…

Social Justice Ireland has produced a well-argued proposal for refundable tax credits – a long-standing demand to make the tax system more equitable. In essence, as SJI describes it: ‘A…