Making Choices - Choosing Futures - 2008

CORI Justice's 2008 book on social policy is entitled Making Choices - Choosing Futures. It contains chapters by George Lee (RTE), David Begg (ICTU), Danny McCoy (IBEC), Brigid Reynolds and Sean Healy (CORI Justice), Micheal Collins (Trinity College), Sean Ward (Public Policy analyst) and Gerry Hughes (Pension Reform Research Group). Summaries of these chaptaers were presented at the CORI Justice annual social policy conference held on June 19th, 2008. Download Pdf

Part One: Making Choices - Choosing Futures
Chapter 1 - A business perspective: Download Pdf
Speaker: Danny McCoy, Director, Irish Business and Employers Confederation
Chapter 2 - A trade union perspective: Download Pdf
Speaker: David Begg, General Secretary, Irish Congress of Trade Unions
Chapter 3 - An economist's perspective: Download Pdf
Speaker: George Lee, Economics Editor, RTE
Chapter 4 - A community and voluntary perspective: Download Pdf
Speakers: Seán Healy and Brigid Reynolds, Directors, CORI Justice

Part Two: Securing an Adequate Income
Chapter 5 - Basic Income in Ireland: surveyingthree decades:Download Pdf
Speaker: Seán Ward, Public sector analyst
Chapter 6 - What is an appropriate level of minimum income?: Download Pdf
Speaker: Micheál L Collins, Department of Economics, Trinity College Dublin
Chapter 7 - The Case for a Universal State Pension: Lessons from New: Zealand for Ireland's Green Paper on Pensions: Download Pdf
Speaker: Gerry Hughes, Pensions Policy Research Group, Trinity College Dublin