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Returns from science funding are so big as to be scarcely believable
Ways to think about the public funding of science
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Sam Enright
The good and the bad way to do housing policy
The planning system has a tool to say yes to new homes
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Seán O'Neill McPartlin
A place to put the houses
The next investment Ireland should make.
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Seán Keyes
How regulations keep Ireland’s cities vacant
Modern regulations prevent old building become new homes
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Seán O'Neill McPartlin

July 2025

How to say Yes to new infrastructure
What Ireland can learn from Mark Carney
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Seán O'Neill McPartlin
The left's new tool: deregulation
Reducing the reach of the state to increase the reach of the state.
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Seán Keyes
Housing policy blunders and how to fix them
Cut construction costs, free up land, and speed up planning
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Seán O'Neill McPartlin
Ireland's gold-plated environmental regulations
Ireland's EIA regulations are stricter than Brussels asked for.
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Seán Keyes

June 2025

Why Ireland needs land readjustment
How a proven tool could unlock beautiful neighbourhoods
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Fergus McCullough
Unpopular policy won’t stick
The ways that aggressive pro-building policies go wrong.
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Seán Keyes
How Spain builds beautiful new neighbourhoods
Land readjustment on the Iberian peninsula
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Fergus McCullough
The planning system costs each household about €70k
An assessment of Glaeser's regulatory tax in Ireland.
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Sean Keyes
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