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Evaluating Prisons, Prisoners and Others
(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
(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
(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
(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
(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?
(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
(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
(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?
(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
(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
(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
(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
(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 ... -
Social Housing for the Future: Can Housing Associations Meet the Challenge?
(Trinity College Dublin, 2001)Social Housing for the Future explores the implications of the National Development Plan?s ambitious target for housing provided by housing associations. The paper argues that if the target is to be met, the housing ... -
Towards Flexible Workplace Governance: employment rights, dispute resolution and social partnership in the Irish Republic
(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 ... -
Understanding and Combating Financial Exclusion and Overindebtedness in Ireland: A European Perspective
(Trinity College Dublin, 2011)In modern societies like Ireland, every citizen needs to have appropriate access to a current account, a debit card or credit in order to lead a normal life. However, Ireland has the lowest level of access to a current ...
