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Briefing Paper No.9: Reflections on the Boom: A Time for Reform

Title: Briefing Paper No.9: Reflections on the Boom: A Time for Reform
Publication Date: August 2011
Author: Dr. Patricia O’Hara
Summary: The paper by Dr. Patricia O’Hara, Chairperson of the National Statistics Board and Adjunct Professor at the National Institute for Regional Spatial Analysis (NIRSA), NUI Maynooth, takes a social and cultural perspective on the impact of the recession in both jurisdictions. It addresses the need to make sense of the past so as to discern the bedrock for reform and to use the opportunity to tackle new and long-standing challenges.
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