Browsing by Subject "Privatisation"

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    • Book review: Selling out? ? privatisation in Ireland / by Paul Sweeney. Dublin: TASC/New Island, 2004. 

      Reeves, Eoin (Economic & Social StudiesDublin, 2005)
      Over the last fourteen years the Irish government has withdrawn entirely from direct public provision in sectors such as banking, food, insurance and telecommunications. The wave of privatisation and rationalisation that ...

    • An economic analysis of privatisation in Ireland, 1991-2003 

      Palcic, Donal; Reeves, Eoin (Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 2005)
      Although a late starter with regard to privatising State Owned Enterprises (SOEs), Ireland was recently ranked 8th among OECD countries in terms of relative privatisation activity. This paper presents the first detailed ...

    • Experiences from the United Kingdom in the regulation of privatised utilities 

      Kay, John (Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 2000)
      As Ireland embarks on a programme of privatisation and liberalisation of markets, it may be informative to reflect on the experiences of the UK on competition, privatisation and regulatory issues in the utilities sector ...

    • The National Treatment Purchase Fund ? A success for some patients yet a public policy failure? 

      Burke, Sara; Thomas, Stephen (2019)
      In 2002 the Irish Government announced the establishment of the National Treatment Purchase Fund (NTPF) as a means of addressing patients’ long wait times for public hospital treatment. A new health strategy published in ...

    • The privatisation of state assets and state commercial companies 

      Cromien, Sean (Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1988)
      On a public road leading to Gormanstown beach there is a notice near the Army shooting range which says that care is to be taken when the warning flag is flying. I was reminded of this in preparing this paper. For a civil ...

    • The privatisation of state assets and state commercial companies 

      McDowell, Moore (Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1988)
      This paper is meant to offer an outline of some theoretical and empirical considerations affecting privatisation. The emphasis in on the implications of the economics of property rights for the implementation of economic ...

    • Privatisation: the Irish context 

      Wrynn, James (Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 2000)
      The issue of privatisation and the related themes of this symposium - liberalisation, competition and regulation - are part of a broader discussion on the kind of economic system and indeed the kind of society we wish to ...

    • The rationale and scope for privatisation in Ireland 

      McDowell, Moore (Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 2000)
      The public debate over privatisation in Ireland over the last decade has single-mindedly avoided any serious intellectual analysis of the rationale behind the process in the sense of the issue of whether it is per se a ...

    • State Aids in the Airline Sector: A Comparative Analysis of Iberia and Aer Lingus 

      CHARI, RAJ S (The Policy Institute, 2004)
      The inevitable privatization of Aer Lingus poses many questions. Should state aids be given toward the company before its sale? To whom should the company be sold? How transparent, efficient and accountable should the ...

    • Symposium on the privatisation of state assets and state commercial companies 

      Cassells, Peter (Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1988)
      In a recent article in the Irish Times (November 5 1987) Political Editor Dick Walsh pointed out that "calling for privatisation now sounds like a singularly ill-timed appeal to give capitalism another chance. It sounds ...