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Competition Conference 2011 - accompanying documents

Presentations, papers and speeches available from the speakers at the Competition Authority 20th anniversary conference - The Role of Competition in Ireland's Economic Recovery.

Opening Address by Lucinda Creighton, TD, Minister of State for European Affairs audio (14.3MB) written

Session 1: 20 years of competition policy: where to next?

Mr Paul Gallagher, Senior Counsel
 Speech (26.2MB)
Mr Declan Purcell, Chairperson, Competition Authority
Competition Policy, Law and Culture in 2011 (slides)
Competition Policy, Law and Culture in 2011 (paper)
Speech (23.8MB)

Dr Vincent Power, Partner, A&L Goodbody Solicitors
Competition Law in Ireland:
A 20 year Retrospective and Perspective on the Future (slides) 
Speech (29.7MB)


Session 2: The link between competition and competitiveness
Professor John Fitzgerald,
ESRI
Many Molehills Make a Mountain (slides)
Speech (21.4MB)     

Mr William Kovacic,
Member, US Federal Trade Commission
Competition Policy in a Downturn (slides)
Speech (21MB)

Dr Don Thornhill,
Chairman,
National Competitiveness Council
Why Internal Competition
is in the National Interest
(slides)
Internal Competition is
in the National Interest (paper)
Speech (26.5MB)


Session 3: Where competition and other policy objectives collide

Ms Anna Colucci, Head of Strategy and Delivery Unit,
DG Competition, European Commission
 Speech (17.4MB)
Speech (written)

Mr Colm McCarthy,
School of Economics, University College Dublin


 Prudential Supervision and Limits to Competition 
(slides) 
Speech (19MB)
Dr John Fingleton,
Chief Executive,
UK Office of Fair Trading   
 Speech (16.4MB)
Transcript of speech

Ms Isolde Goggin,
Member,
Competition Authority

 Competition Policy and Conflicting Policy Objectives (slides)
Speech (15MB)          


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Date Printed: 17 May 2012

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