Although Ireland has done much already to reduce its government deficit, the scale of the fiscal adjustment required means that there is still some distance to go. In international terms, Ireland's fiscal consolidation will ultimately prove to be one of the largest recorded in the Organisation...

Report of a Department of Education commissioned survey of unit costs of first and second level schools in 1990.

This paper argues that centralised bargaining as practiced in Ireland added to wage inflationary pressure as: the focus of centralised bargaining was the preservation of good industrial relations; the processs of wage negotiation was heavily politicised; and, the system evolved into a two-tier...

The healthcare market in Ireland is facing a series of problems arising from the dual nature of the market. Health insurance is an important element of this dual market. Yet the main issues confronting the health insurance industry - the ageing of the population and medical inflation - have not...