Articles, Workshops & Presentations


Cost Effective, Accountable and Innovative Public Service Presentation, Don Thornhill, MacGill Summer School, 2010
Design of a Local Property Tax Budget documentation, December 2013
Competitiveness and Pay Formation Kenmare, 2007
Competitiveness Policy – Cad a dhéanfaimid feasta gan Troika? Dublin Economic Workshop, Galway, 13 October 2012
The Agenda for Tax Reform: Playing to and developing our strengths Dónal de Buitléir and Don Thornhil, Dublin Economic Workshop, Kenmare 2008
Real structural reform of the Public Sector essential for Competitiveness Article, Don Thornhill, Sunday Business Post, January 2012
Back to the Rough Ground: the Public Service and Competitiveness Institute of Public Administration September 2009
Fixing our broken pensions – a transforming approach to pensions reform Dublin Economic Workshop, Kenmare 2011
Kate O’Brien on Transforming Power Kate O’Brien Weekend, Limerick, 1 March 2008
On Jonathan Swift An Address St Patrick’s Cathedral, Dublin, 17 October 2010
Overview of Ireland’s Competitiveness Address to the National Skills Conference, October 2006
Can Ireland Secure its Competitive Edge Presentation to the Irish Small and Medium Enterprises Association (ISME), October 2007
Education for Competitiveness Presentation to the World Competitiveness Forum, Riyadh 2008
Submisssion to the Joint Committee on Enterprise, Trade and Employment 2010 Address to the Joint Committee on Enterprise of the Irish Parliament (Oireachtas), 22 June 2010
Ireland – The Journey Back Presentation to GFCC Annual Meeting Washington 10th December 2010
Our Economic Future – Challenges, Questions and Future Policies Presentation to the Institute of International and European Affairs, 31 March 2011