Career
On 13 January 2016 Tánaiste Joan Burton in her role as Social Protection Minister appointed David Begg, former General Secretary of the Irish Congress of Trade Unions (ICTU), as chair of the Pension Authority. Begg"s study of Northern European open economies, Lost in Transition, was published internationally by Palgrave Macmillan in February 2016. David Begg is running as an independent candidate on the National University of Ireland panel in the 2016 Seanad elections.
