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Do you speak Dail?
Wanted: someone to explain banking to our TDs
If you can hammer out the intricacies of the banking system in less than 4,500 words, step this way.
OIREACHTAS OFFICIALS ARE on the hunt for an expert who can explain banking, and particularly state-owned banks, to our elected representatives.
A notice published online this week by the Oireachtas Library & Research service invites quotations from “suitable service providers” to author a research paper on banking for TDs and Senators.
It states:
This research paper will be disseminated…to members of the Oireachtas to enhance their understanding of the Irish banking system, the role of State owned banks within the system, and the potential impact of selling the State’s stakes in the banks it owns.
It goes on to state that it should be written in “plain English” as it is aimed at Oireachtas Members who are “a non-specialist audience”.
The final paper will be between 3,000 and 4,500 words.
“Make complex material accessible”
The use of graphs, chats, figures and text boxes to make complex material “accessible to a non-specialist readership” is encouraged.
The tender document outlines a requirement to address “the potential short and long term costs and benefits of selling the State-owned stakes in the Irish banks including…potential revenues from privatisation, loss of dividends etc”
The deadline for submission of the final paper is Friday 27 June.
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