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  • Angels and IPOs: Policies for Sustainable Equity Financing of Irish Small Businesses 

    Mulcahy, Diane (Trinity College Dublin, 2005)
    Angels and IPOs: Policies for Sustainable Equity Financing of Irish Small Businesses explores the rationale for the Irish government?s investments of more than 300 million Euro in Irish companies and the domestic venture ...
  • Children?s Rights - Whose Right? A Review of Child Policy Development in Ireland 

    Hayes, Noirin (Trinity College Dublin, 2002)
    Children?s Rights - Whose Right? A Review of Child Policy Development in Ireland reviews the position of children in contemporary Irish society and their emergence as a group inpolicy-making. Thestudy finds that a reactive, ...
  • Civic Engagement and the Governance of Irish Suburbs 

    Peillon, Michel; Corcoran, Mary; Gray, Jane (Trinity College Dublin, 2006)
    Civic Engagement and the Governance of Irish Suburbs addresses the policy implications of suburban growth in Ireland. The significant development of new suburbs, experienced since the early 1990s, is largely perceived as ...
  • Comparing Rural Development Strategies in Four Irish Communities, 1930-2005 

    Kuentzel, Walter (Trinity College Dublin, 2008)
    Comparing Rural Development Sstrategies in Four Irish Communities, 1930-2005, explores rural explores rural change as a process of adaption. The study asks four orienting policy questions about rural change in Ireland. ...
  • Competition and Regulation in the Retail Pharmacy Market 

    Purcell, Declan (Trinity College Dublin, 2004)
    Competition and Regulation in the Retail Pharmacy Market examines the operation of the retail pharmacy market in Ireland and the regulatory environment in which it operates. Retail pharmacy is a billion euro industry in ...
  • The Containment of Heritage: Setting Limits to the Growth of Heritage in Ireland 

    Cooke, Patrick (Trinity College Dublin, 2003)
    The Containment of Heritage: Setting Limits to the Growth of Heritage in Ireland examines the expansionary pressures at work within the field of heritage in Ireland. The last twenty years have witnessed an unprecedented ...
  • The Dublin Taxi Market: Re-regulate or Stay Queuing? 

    Fingleton, John; Evans, John; Hogan, Oliver (Trinity College Dublin, 1998)
    The Dublin Taxi Market: Re-regulate or Stay Queuing? examines how this particular market is performing in terms of meeting the demands placed on it. It looks at the Dublin taxi market from a number of perspectives. The ...
  • Evaluating Prisons, Prisoners and Others 

    Heylin, Greg (Trinity College Dublin, 2001)
    Evaluating Prisons, Prisoners and Others advocates evaluation as one powerful means of countering the fatalism engendered by the literature of the failure of prison and Foucault?s analysis of power. It argues that rather ...
  • FAS and Active Labour Market Policy 1985 - 2004 

    Boyle, Nigel (Trinity College Dublin, 2005)
    This paper provides an institutional analysis of Ireland?s principal labour market agency and explores the politics of policymaking in active labour market policy. It considers the capacity of the Irish state to effect ...
  • Financial Services Regulation in Ireland - the Accountability Dimension 

    Westrup, Jonathan (Trinity College Dublin, 2002)
    Financial Services Regulation in Ireland - the Accountability Dimension assesses Ireland?s new financial regulatory structure. The study utilises two perspectives: an international comparison of the accountability structure ...
  • Fuel Poverty and Policy in Ireland and the European Union 

    Healy, Jonathan (Trinity College Dublin, 2003)
    Despite Government spending in excess of ?63m per annum on income supplements to mitigate fuel poverty, almost one-in-ten Irish households suffer from persistent fuel poverty. This paper review levels of fuel poverty across ...
  • Independence and the Irish Environmental Protection Agency: A Comparative Assessment 

    Shipan, Charles (Trinity College Dublin, 2006)
    The Environmental Protection Agency is one of the most prominent regulatory agencies in Ireland. Created in 1992, one of the hallmarks of this agency is its independence from other parts of government. Yet little is known ...
  • Industry-Academia Collaboration: A Competence Centre Approach for Ireland? 

    O'Connor, Nicki (Trinity College Dublin, 2007)
    The creation and use of knowledge is at the heart of the Irish government's plans for driving sustainable future economic growth in Ireland. This is set out clearly in its Strategy for Science, Technology and Innovation ...
  • Ireland's Tax Expenditure System: International Comparisons and a Reform Agenda 

    Collins, Micheal; Walsh, Mary (Trinity College Dublin, 2010)
    Tax Expenditures, also known as tax incentives or tax breaks, represent an infrequently explored and little understood area of Irish public policy. Despite this, they account for more than ?11 billion per annum in exchequer ...
  • Managing the Immigration and Employment of Non-EU Nationals in Ireland 

    Ruhs, Martin (Trinity College Dublin, 2005)
    Ireland's recent transformation into a country of immigration has raised new and important policy issues. Rapid economic growth and relatively liberal policies toward the admission of migrant workers have resulted in a ...
  • A New Electoral system for Ireland? 

    Laver, Michael (Trinity College Dublin, 1998)
    A New Electoral system for Ireland? looks at the possibility of doing away with the current Single Transferable Vote electoral system in Ireland. It explores the impact of replacing STV with an alternative widely favoured ...
  • Organising for a Changing Europe? Irish Central Government and the European Union 

    Laffan, Brigid (Trinity College Dublin, 2001)
    Organising for a Changing Europe? Irish Central Government and the European Union examines the management of EU policy in Ireland from the perspective of central government. The research was undertaken in response to ...
  • Plus ca change...? Gender mainstreaming of the Irish National Development Plan 

    McGauran, Anne-Marie (Trinity College Dublin, 2005)
    Plus ca change...? Gender mainstreaming of the Irish National Development Plan examines the gender mainstreaming of the Irish National Development Plan. Gender mainstreaming means incorporating a gender equality perspective ...
  • Reframing the Irish Activation Debate: Accommodating Care and Safeguarding Social Rights and Choices 

    Murphy, Mary (Trinity College Dublin, 2008)
    Work activation is a phrase used to describe a policy objective of moving people of working age from a social welfare payment into paid employment. It uses the social welfare system proactively to support, encourage or ...
  • A Review of the Free Schemes Operated by the Department of Social, Community and Family Affairs 

    Orlaigh, Quinn (Trinity College Dublin, 2000)
    A Review of the Free Schemes Operated by the Department of Social, Community and Family Affairs examines the social welfare benefit-in-kind schemes: Free Travel, Free Electricity/Gas Allowance, Free TV Licence and Free ...