Department of Economics, Kemmy Business School, University of Limerick
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Deadline for abstracts now extended to October 29th @ciriec
We're convening a panel on Public Enterprise and the SDGs at the @IRSPM conference 2024.
All abstracts on SOEs and Municipal Enterprise are welcome. Deadline for abstract submission is October 23rd. Details of all panels here.
irspm.org/conference-2024/co…
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Our panel on Public Enterprise and the SDGs welcomes abstracts abstracts from scholars and networks including @ciriec @We_OwnIt @IIPP_UCL
We're convening a panel on Public Enterprise and the SDGs at the @IRSPM conference 2024.
All abstracts on SOEs and Municipal Enterprise are welcome. Deadline for abstract submission is October 23rd. Details of all panels here.
irspm.org/conference-2024/co…
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We're convening a panel on Public Enterprise and the SDGs at the @IRSPM conference 2024.
All abstracts on SOEs and Municipal Enterprise are welcome. Deadline for abstract submission is October 23rd. Details of all panels here.
irspm.org/conference-2024/co…
Service by @dublincoach1 deteriorating badly. Waited an hour for bus from Limerick to Dublin. Even though schedule advertises departures every 30 minutes. Bus broke down after toll booth!! Other passengers had stories of similar experiences.
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Nice to be quoted in today's New York Times article on Ireland’s Latest Fiscal Headache: What to Do With 10 Billion Euros nytimes.com/2023/09/15/busin…
Toll increases are built into PPP contracts. Government is subsidising road-users not private contractors. Obviously not climate friendly.
irishtimes.com/transport/202…
Great thread by my colleague @donalpalcic . Our 2018 paper esr.ie/article/view/9… uncovered details about motorway PPPs. The current tolling controversy shows details about the workings of PPPs are still not widely understood. Not least by politicians.
Much of the above issues were covered in a paper I co-authored with my colleague @eoinreeves published in the @esr_ie which can be accessed here: esr.ie/article/view/914
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I'm delighted to be on the organising committee for this Workshop. There's a great opportunity for early stage infrastructure researchers or practitioners to participate online.
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I am greatly honoured by this appointment and look forward to working with colleagues from over 60 countries over the next few years @ciriec
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Some interesting questions raised in this article including why the cost of Ireland's NBP is so high. We - @DonalPalcic and @GaryHealyIE - examine this here: researchgate.net/publication…
Why is this examination of the NBP being outsourced? The government's National Development Finance Agency has the experience to do this? One wonders why the NDFA didn't procure the NBP in the first place. irishtimes.com/business/tech…
Great journalism this week by @peterodwyer1 @tom_hubert
This proposed inquiry is really posturing. As the article points out the ownership structure and financing arrangements are broadly similar to most PPP contracts. @DonalPalcic and I flagged this before the contact was signed
Great journalism by @peterodwyer1 . Government locked into a contract after an uncompetitive tender. Result? Missed targets, duplicated networks, taxpayers paying unnecessary millions. It's not as if they weren't warned.
businesspost.ie/taxpayers-fo…
Many thanks to Jenny and Daragh. It's great to have recent graduates progress so well on their careers and coming back to meet the current class of MSc Students.
Big thanks to Jenny Connors (Head of the Irish Government Economic and Evaluation Service) and Daragh Clancy (from @centralbank_ie) for their time this week to present to our MSc in Econ and Policy students. Daragh in full flow 👇 @BusinessAtUL @Economics_UL
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@LimerickCouncil @lauramr Another week goes by and the graffiti beside the Dolores O'Riordan mural at King John's Castle still not addressed by Limerick City Council. Yet we pump public money into marketing the city?
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Good to see Brian Carey of Sunday Times cover extraordinary profit margins in waste collection sector. 35% margins at consumers expense! Time to regulate this market and introduce competitive tendering.
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This thread by my colleague @DonalPalcic provides interesting insights coming from our ongoing research into PPPs that have been used to build schools over the last 20 years. Do they really deliver value for money?
The Dept of Education has published the long overdue mid-term review (in year 19 of the 25 year operational period!) of the pilot schools PPP bundle procured back in 1999. While welcome, there are a number of big issues with the financial analysis 1/17 gov.ie/en/publication/2b005-…
First the contract is awarded without competition. Now we learn targets are missed. Should we be surprised?
The company, entrusted to roll out the National Broadband Plan, has missed all its targets in 2020 and 2021, writes @peterodwyer1. businesspost.ie/29e23308
So much for loyalty @officialgaa
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