Monday Blog: TTIP in trouble

12 Jun 2015
Tom Healy
Last week an unprecedented even took place in the European Parliament. Following months of complex negotiation between the European Commission – on behalf of European Union Member States – and the United States of America a resolution to the Parliament to be discussed and voted upon last Wednesday...

Monday Blog: Wages on the rise after 7 years of stagnation.

05 Jun 2015
Tom Healy
As data filter through every three months from the Central Statistics Office it is clear that wages are recovering slowly across most sectors of the economy. The adjustment of the labour market over a period of 7 to 8 years since the crash of 2008 is, and will be, the subject of research – did wages...

Reforming the EU Corporate Tax System

02 Jun 2015
Micheál Collins
Last week a delegation from the European Commission (the TAXE committee) visited Dublin as part of their work examining the structure of the EU corporate taxation system and the reforms it requires. As somebody who researches various taxation issues, and as a former member of the Commission on...

Monday Blog: All islands economy

29 May 2015
Tom Healy
The development of closer economic ties between both parts of Ireland has been a feature of growing European integration as well as the establishment of a ‘peace dividend’ following the Good Friday agreement of 1998. While much research work has been undertaken in relation to cross-border and all...

Monday Blog: From correction to prevention

22 May 2015
Tom Healy
Employment has increased significantly, in the Republic of Ireland, since 2012. This is very welcome. While the details and scale of the increase has been open to statistical interpretation it is clear that a recovery in output in most sectors of the economy has spilled over into job creation (See...
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