Simon harris TD, Minster of State at the Departments of Finance PER and Taoiseach with Special Responsibility for the OPW, Public Procurement, and International Banking (incl IFSC), speaking at the award ceremony of the Miriam Hederman O’Brien prize on 30

The Miriam Hederman O-Brien 2015 was awarded in September 2015 to Rónán Hickey and Diarmaid Smyth for their paper - "The Financial Crisis in Ireland and Government Revenues"

The Miriam Hederman O’Brien prize is awarded by the Foundation for Fiscal Studies in association with The Irish Times to recognise outstanding work in the area of Irish fiscal policy. The aim of the prize is to promote the study