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Issue - No.3   

Welcome to Issue 3 of TIQ Ireland. This issue covers events and headlines up to March, including our partnership with Trinity College Dublin's School of Business and the election of our new Chair and Board during our first AGM. More on these stories will follow in the next issue, while our accounts will be published on our website soon.


TI Ireland elects new Chair and Board of Directors

TI Ireland held its first Annual General Meeting in the Printing House on Monday evening (13 March). It was preceded by a panel discussion which looked at corruption from national and international perspectives.
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Our Work - November to February 2006

A summary of our work over the past three months (plus one!). Further details on work at TI Ireland is available by going to our press release archive and programme section.
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Headlines from Ireland - November to February 2006

Here is a record of some leading headlines from Ireland on integrity and standards of governance in public and corporate life from November to February 2006.
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Corruption, Accountability and Dáil Éireann, by Muiris MacCarthaigh

Since the early 1990s, the Irish media have struggled to cope with an avalanche of revelations concerning political corruption and maladministration. These disclosures have inevitably raised questions about the nature of institutional mechanisms to safeguard against the abuse of public office for personal gain.
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GLOBAL CORRUPTION REPORT: Executive Summary

Every year, the world spends more than US $3 trillion on health services, most of which is financed by taxpayers. These large flows of funds are an attractive target for abuse. The stakes are high and the resources precious: money lost to corruption could be used to buy medicines, equip hospitals or hire badly needed medical staff.
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GLOBAL CORRUPTION REPORT: The human rights community needs to pay even more attention to corruption, by Mary Robinson

The highest attainable standard of health is one of the fundamental rights of every human being, incorporated in article 12 of the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights. Corruption – alongside poverty, inequity, civil conflict, discrimination and violence – is a major issue that has not been adequately addressed within the framework of these basic rights.
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GLOBAL CORRUPTION REPORT: Report on Ireland, by Elaine Byrne

In only the second review of Ireland in the Global Corruption Report, Elaine Byrne claims that whistleblower legislation is vital to prevent and detect corruption in Ireland. Byrne also highlights the 2004 reports on tax evasion scandals at AIB and National Irish Bank as indicative of the “systematic culture of non-compliance that dominated sectors of Irish life in the 1980s and 1990s”.
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GLOBAL CORRUPTION REPORT: We need law to protect the whistleblowers, by Elaine Byrne

What is clear from the Global Corruption Report for 2006 is the need for protection of those who report allegations of corruption to their peers, superiors and ultimately the authorities or media. Such protection is no less important in Ireland. Events over the past two years underscore this point.
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