We need information to know that government spends money wisely

I’m pretty certain though that all the stuff about tight fiscal space will be upended on budget day, writes Fergus Finlay

HERE’S my appeal to publicpolicy.ie. Update your tax slider, please. It’s a fascinating and valuable resource, that you should be marketing heavily. But it hasn’t been updated for quite a while.

Publicpolicy.ie was established to provide, in its own words, independent thinking on public policy choices. It has a heavyweight team and board, and it has been funded independently by Atlantic Philanthropies. I’m guessing that may be an issue, because the largest of the philanthropies working in Ireland is winding down rapidly, and the public policy team may, as a consequence, be running out of a source of funding.