David Farrell and Niamh Hardiman to appear before Banking Inquiry

10/03/2015

UCD academics David Farrell Niamh Hardiman will appear before the Oireachtas Banking Inquiry on Wednesday, 11th March as the Committee continues its context phase hearings on relationships between State authorities, political parties, elected representatives, supervisory authorities, banking institutions and the property sector.

Chairman Ciarán Lynch TD: “Professor David Farrell is a member of the Royal Irish Academy and is a specialist in the study of parties, elections, electoral systems and members of parliament. His current research focuses on the role of deliberation in constitutional reform processes. In 2012 he was elected as President of the Political Studies Association of Ireland and in 2013 he was elected as Speaker of the Council of the European Consortium for Political Research. Professor Farrell, who is also founding co-editor of Party Politics, will address the Committee on Public Policy in Parliamentary Democracies.

Niamh Hardiman is Associate Professor of Political Science and Public Policy at UCD. Her research interests centre on the political economy and public policy and she is interested in the politics underlying policy outcomes; the politics of how public policy priorities are formed and implemented; the implications of institutional design for ‘good governance’; and the political economy of growth, distribution and redistribution.

Among her recent papers are work on comparative fiscal response to crisis, methodological challenges arising from analysis of fiscal policy choices, the political economy of housing bubbles, new approaches to thinking about the European ‘periphery’, the effects of crisis on state structures, the implications of state structures for vulnerability to crisis, and the fiscal foundations of the state. Professor Hardiman will address the Committee on systems of governance.”

The schedule for the hearings is:

Session A: 9.30 am – 11.30 am Committee Room 1
David Farrell, UCD on Public Policy in Parliamentary Democracies.

Session B: 11.45 am – 1.45 pm Committee Room 1
Niamh Hardiman, UCD on Systems of Governance.

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Committee Membership

Deputies

Ciarán Lynch (Chairman)
Pearse Doherty
Joe Higgins
Michael McGrath
Eoghan Murphy
Kieran O’Donnell
John Paul Phelan

Senators

Sean D Barrett
Michael D’Arcy
Marc MacSharry
Susan O’Keeffe