- Read more: How does the European Green Deal Enhance Social and Economic Inclusiveness?
This paper explores the European Union’s Green Deal (EGD) growth strategy, social market economy, and climate resilient implementation, drawing on survey data examining the governance and implementation of the EGD across 27 EU Member States. The author examines how Ireland’s deliberative democracy experience could provide essential food for thought to successfully implement EU Green Deal…
- Read more: Designing Institutions for Designing Policy
Public policy, like architecture or engineering, is a design science. Its ultimate purpose is to produce public policies that improve the lives of citizens, and to do so at a reasonable cost. Policy design is arguably more difficult than other forms of design. This paper examines what is needed for a viable policy design and…
- Read more: Gen AI for Local Governments: Findings from Dublin City Council Case Study
This study aims to address the question “what anticipated outcomes and potential challenges of AI/Gen AI adoption on public sectors’ current tasks are likely to impact public servants to adopt these technologies?” The findings of the study offer a nuanced understanding of the Gen AI adoption of public organisations and serve as a foundation for…
- Read more: Large Language Models For Social Policy: A Deployment Ladder Framework For Sustainability-Aware AI Governance
Large Language Models (LLMs) have eased the various processes behind policymaking specifically where analysis of large volumes of text is needed. This however comes at a heavy cost to UN’s sustainability goals and current research in the area seems to ignore this fundamental dilemma. In this piece researchers from UCD, TU Dublin and Zayed University,…
- Read more: Reframing Public Services in Ireland as a Relational Practice
This paper makes the case for reframing public services in Ireland as Relational Public Services (RPS) that take a Human Learning Systems Approach (HLS), which describes a way of organising viable services built around relationships and collective learning, as distinct from transactions, targets and standardised processes.
- Read more: Rural Policy Review of Ireland 2026
The OECD has published “Rural Policy Review of Ireland 2026”.
- Read more: Future of the Irish State: 2025 and Beyond
The report on “Future of the Irish State: 2025 and Beyond” by the Think-Tank for Action on Social Change (TASC) was published on June 3, 2025.
- Read more: Public Participation Networks and Local Democracy: Addressing Challenges and Amplifying Opportunities
This paper, drawing upon a combination of research funded by the IRC (now Research Ireland) New Foundations programme[i] and PhD research on deliberative democracy and economic inequality, explores some of the opportunities and barriers experienced by PPN members and staff, and the potential means of addressing these barriers.
- Read more: OECD: Monitoring and Evaluation of Child and Youth Policies and Outcomes in Ireland
The OECD has published “Monitoring and Evaluation of Child and Youth Policies and Outcomes in Ireland”. This report is part of a joint project between the OECD, the European Commission and Ireland to strengthen policy and governance arrangements in Ireland. It provides guidance for the development of a Monitoring and Evaluation system for Ireland’s new…
- Read more: Perspectives on Constitutional Change: Finance and Economics
The Joint Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement has launched its report entitled: ‘Perspectives on Constitutional Change: Finance and Economics’. The report is available to download here.
