Launch of Irish Corruption Country Study (NIS)

Transparency International Ireland will launch a major new study on safeguards against corruption and the abuse of power in Ireland on 2 March in Buswells Hotel, Dublin. We would be delighted if you could join us.

The National Integrity System Study is the most wide ranging analysis to be ever conducted on the issue in Ireland. Funded by the Department of Justice, Equality and Law Reform, it examines the risk of corruption and abuse of power in government, politics, business, civil society and the media. It also looks at the role these sectors have to play in promoting integrity in public life. The study makes some forty recommendations to tackle a problem that contributed to the world financial crisis and is believed to be costing the Irish economy €3 billion in lost revenues and finance each year.

A press conference will be held at 10.30am immediately followed at 11am by the formal launch of the study and a seminar ‘If bad governance caused the financial crisis, what’s the cure?’. A panel of speakers including Susan O’Keeffe (former ‘World in Action’ reporter whose work led to the Beef Tribunal), Professor Brian Lucey (Professor of Finance, Trinity College Dublin) and John Devitt (Chief Executive, Transparency International Ireland). The discussion will close at 1pm.

The seminar will look at the role the abuse of power had to play in sowing the seeds of the financial crisis and what needs to be done to restore trust and confidence in our economic and political system.