Criticism
In February 2010, the Institute conceded that mistakes were made in its controversial study into waste policy. However, correction of these errors did not change the substance of the recommendations.
In January 2012, economist Richard Tol left the ESRI, questioning the independence of the group in relation to the funding it receives. The Institute’s perspective on its independence was published in The Irish Times on 12 January 2012.
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“I consider criticism merely a preliminary excitement, a statement of things a writer has to clear up in his own head sometime or other, probably antecedent to writing; of no value unless it come to fruit in the created work later.”
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