The election enters the last few days. So many issues that were barely mentioned. How much time was given over to the fact that over one million suffer multiple deprivation…

In a previous post I suggested that the debate was getting out of hand. In actual fact, we have almost no fiscal space (not after inflation, demographic pressures and the…

Before this election gets out of control it’s time to have an honest conversation. You know all that stuff about the ‘fiscal space’? Is it €8 billion or €10 billion…

Continuing the recovery? Starting the recovery (for those who haven’t started feeling it yet)?   Protecting the recovery from outside events? What should we be doing? Voices from the fiscal orthodoxy…

There are assertions that Ireland has a very costly health service; that we spend a lot but get little to show for it. This post will look at claims that…