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2012 Press Releases

July 15th: Good for Business? TASC launches new report on Worker Directors

May 31st: TASC: Job figures highlight need for integrated youth employment package

April 19th: Water charging: TASC rejects 'free' allowance proposal as costly and inequitable

April 3rd: Taxing assets, paying for resources: TASC issues submission on property tax and water policy

February 16th: TASC issues new report on State Assets

January 10th: Data supplied to Troika should be published simultaneously in Dublin

2011 Press Releases

December 8th: Response to Budget 2012

November 1st: TASC launches Pre-Budget Submission

September 19th: Is Ireland a democratic republic? (presentation by Sinéad Pentony to Greaves summer school)

August 8th: 2011 TASC Equality Survey: healthcare access unequal, say respondents

July 29th: TASC response to JLC proposals

June 14th: Inequality is a preventable cause of death

May 31st: 36 economists, economic analysts and social scientists express concern at proposals which would reduce pay of low earners and further shrink demand

March 8th: International Women’s Day: Forthcoming research results show gender earnings gap still in place

February 24th: New research indicates reducing JLC rates will cost Exchequer and depress consumer demand

February 14th: Economic equality must be focus of next Programme for Government

January 31st: TASC launches discussion paper on human rights and the budgeting process

2010 Press Releases

December 9th: TASC analysis of Budget 2011

December 7th: Initial response to Budget 2011

December 5th: Public Expenditure Explained:  TASC launches interactive online tool and discussion papers

December 1st: TASC issues response to EU-IMF agreement

November 25th NRP: impact of proposed income tax changes

November 24th Initial TASC response to National Recovery Plan

October 23rd Paula Clancy's address to FEPS/TASC Autumn Conference

October 14th: TASC launches proposals for Budget 2011: Investment key to economic recovery

September 22nd: New pension data highlights need for state-led solution

September 11th: Presentation by Paula Clancy to Greaves Summer School

September 6th: 77 per cent would rather work than stay at home for the same pay: "Problem is unemployment, not the unemployed"

August 25th:  Launching 'Stimulating Recovery' pamphlet, Pentony says rating downgrade shows current policy is failing

August 17th: TASC releases 2010 Solidarity Factor: 9 out of 10 believe government should take active steps to reduce income gap

August 5th: TASC issues recommendations to combat financial exclusion

July 29th: TASC publishes discussion papers on access to information

June 10th: Summary of papers delivered to FEPS/TASC seminar on 'Stimulating Recovery'

May 13th: ‘Mapping the Golden Circle’: TASC identifies potential risks to corporate governance

May 5th: Launch of Failed Design?Ireland’s Finance Acts and their Role in the Crisis - “Over-reliance on tax expenditure and tax avoidance to attract investment undermines State revenue, distorts markets and fails to support job creation"

May 3rd: TASC launches briefing on restaurant wages: think tank argues that reducing wages would heighten inequality while depressing consumer demand

April 19th:   Jobless recovery will have little impact on real economy says Pentony, advocating targeted programme of capital investment to kick-start job creation

March 6th: Charting a course towards recovery with equality: Speech delivered by Paula Clancy at Sinn Fein Ard Fheis

March 4th:  Pensions Framework Document provides a positive basis for going forward - "Supplementary pension must be state-led and guaranteed"

February 14th TASC Director Paula Clancy: Farmers' wives paying price for failure to reform pension system

February 2nd Sinead Pentony on 'Taxbreak Hotels': €1.5 billion potential loss to Exchequer if clawback abolished

January 21st Remarks at launch of Retirement Income: Meeting the Needs of Older People?, edited by Jim Stewart and Gerry Hughes

January 21st Remarks by Sinead Pentony, TASC Head of Policy, launching TASC pension policy update