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    • 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, ...

    • 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 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 ...

    • 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 ...

    • Towards Flexible Workplace Governance: employment rights, dispute resolution and social partnership in the Irish Republic 

      Teague, Paul (Trinity COllege Dublin, 2005)
      Workplace conflict is part and parcel of economic life. If disputes at work are not properly addressed, they can get out of hand with potentially far reaching adverse consequences for employers and employees. A well-designed ...