SSISI Symposium: Reform of Public Policymaking

Venue: Royal Irish Academy, 19 Dawson Street, Dublin 2.

THE STATISTICAL AND SOCIAL INQUIRY SOCIETY OF IRELAND (SSISI) Symposium: Reform of Public Policymaking.
with contributions from:

• Prof. Frank Barry (TCD) on Politicians, the Bureaucracy and Economic Policymaking over Two Crises: the 1950s and Today,
• Dr Muiris MacCarthaigh (QUB) on Reform of public policymaking in Ireland,
• Dr Pete Lunn (ESRI) on Researchers Imply, Policymakers Infer: Perspectives on the Relationship Between Evidence and Policy, and
• Mr Robert Watt (Secretary General, Department of Public Expenditure and Reform), who will respond to the other papers.

The Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland is an all-Ireland body that has been in continuous existence since 1847. The Society organises seven or so public meetings each year at which papers are read followed by an open forum discussion. The Society provides a unique meeting ground for discussion between decision-makers in the business, public service, trade union, professional, academic and research communities. A complete archive of papers read to the Society since 1847 is freely available at www.ssisi.ie.