Bankruptcy Law Reform

As reported by the Irish Times, the legislation to reform the personal insolvency regime will soon be published.  Readers are invited to comment on the appropriate period of bankruptcy and the appropriate treatment of mortgage obligations.

The ESRI Responds

ESRI Director Frances Ruane writes an op-ed in today’s Irish Times.  There is also a report, based on an interview with her.

INET Grant for Philip Lane

Congratulations to Philip for the award of an INET grant in the Spring round of grants by the Institute.

New Fiscal Compact Draft

Via the IIEA blog, a new leaked draft of the proposed fiscal compact. Importantly for Ireland, the wording that balanced budget laws need to be “constitutional or equivalent” has been replaced with “preferably constitutional”.

Stop coddling Europe’s banks

So writes Morris Goldstein in this VOX article.